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June 19, 2010

Retrieve the Dell PowerEdge Service Tag remotely from Windows or Linux

Have you ever wanted to get the Dell Service Tag from a PowerEdge machine that you don’t have physical access to? Well it’s actually quite easy as Dell make this available through the standardised Desktop Management Interface (otherwise known as DMI) framework, so you don’t even have to install any of Dell’s OpenManage tools to view it! On a Linux...
Categories Dell PowerEdge/Linux/Servers/Windows Comments: 0
June 19, 2010

Intel VT Virtualisation Technology on Dell PowerEdge servers

Somewhat annoyingly, Dell seem to like to disable Intel’s VT (Virtualisation Technology, sometimes called VMX) in the BIOS on their Dell PowerEdge servers, which means that you can’t use the Xen hypervisor to virtualise Microsoft Windows Server without changing this setting, which requires a reboot of the server to take effect. You can use omreport from the Dell OpenManage Server...
Categories Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0