Dell PowerEdge – PERC RAID Card Importing / Using ‘Foreign’ Disks
KB ID 0000639 Problem I bought some SAS disks from eBay to go in my Power Edge 2900 Server, and scratched my head for a while trying to get the PERC RAID controller to use them. I could only see them marked as ‘Foreign’. Probably because they did not have their original config ‘wiped’ off them before I bought them. Solution 1. Boot the server, Press CTRL+R when prompted, then press ‘C’ to enter the...
Accessing Dell ‘DRAC’ Fails – ‘DRAC5 Console Redirection Client Unable to launch application’
KB ID 0000918 Problem After I got a new laptop, I attempted to connect to my test server and was greeted with this error. Application Error Unable to launch the application Name: DRAC5 Console Redirection Client Publisher: Dell Inc Location: {ip-address}:443 So I hit the details tab and got this, Error: Missing required Permissions manifest attribute in main jar: https://{ip-address}:443/plugins/vkvm/avctDRAC5Viewer.jar Solution...