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Dell PowerConnect switch stack missing ports

2013-05-15 by Rasmus Haslund Leave a Comment

A customer called me while configuring two new Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in a stack. After stacking the switches no ports on unit 2 would link up. The web interface also looked wierd: As you can see above the switch looks like it has no ports at all. As we can read in the Dell […]

Filed Under: Dell PowerConnect, Fix IT Tagged With: 6224, Dell, missing, ports, powerconnect

Dell PowerConnect 6224 There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch

2013-04-02 by Rasmus Haslund 1 Comment

Recently a customer requested help to firmware upgrade a Dell PowerConnect 6224 switch. He had attempted to upgrade it from TFTP and HTTP, but unfortunately both ways he would recieve error “There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch” when booting the new firmware. He could still boot the old firmware. Since the customer […]

Filed Under: Dell PowerConnect, Fix IT Tagged With: Dell, fixit, powerconnect, switch

Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches not stacking

2013-01-20 by Rasmus Haslund 1 Comment

Last week I was on-site with a customer to install two Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches for use with an EqualLogic SAN. The stack was not configured automatically. I used command show stack-port For some reason the switch detected the stacking modules as 10 Gigabit modules. Fortunately the CLI reference guide has the commands to configure […]

Filed Under: EqualLogic, Fix IT Tagged With: 6224, Dell, powerconnect, stack

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