I'm really liking your content. I just wanted to offer a suggestion that you've probably already thought of and fixed on a later video. Take the faceplate off of your old optical drive and attach it to the ssd drive. That will cover the gap perfectly.
That's a great suggestion! I ended up buying a different one, but for anyone watching this, you should defiantly try to do this. Thanks @TheSpoonyluvin.
I wish I had heard your explanation of RAID types back when I was first learning about it! I would have understood it a lot faster. Great job, and great video!
You can still use DHCP and have the router assign a specific IP against the server's MAC address. No need to manually set it in iDRAC. If you are managing lots of servers it's better to be able to assign them all in one place, i.e. the router, or other management software.
I did the same thing swapping the drive with an SSD caddy on a Thinkpad. I wasn't paying attention and got the 9.5mm and realized it was too thin, so I had to get the 12.7mm caddy. Luckily they are cheap. But definitely a lesson to check the drive size if you swap it out. I actually just picked up an R720 16-bay SFF. I didn't think of it until I saw this vid, but may just grab a caddy for this as well.
WHERE WERE YOU 24 hours ago?! Just got through putting together almost this exact setup on an r720. And dammit I wish Id seen your video first lol. Thanks anyway. Good stuff.
Servers (especially rack mountable) need to be run closed because their internal airflow has been optimized that way. If you run them open some parts might get worse cooling. To compensate that servers spin their fans faster => more noise you get.
Excellent video, your African and African-American accent rocks ...Dude, so no big deal. I enjoyed your tutorial and its immensely beneficial. Nonetheless, considering I have Dell PowerEdge R720, I have couple of quick inquiries. 1. Shall I make all eight SATA 3.5 Inch hard disk bays as one large virtual logical volume (under RAID 10) and keep my Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian) plugged up with SATA Dock Mount Station through internal USB port ...pulling the wire through the back ... 2. Would I am be able to utilize all my 8 disk bays (combing roughly 4 TB, 500 GiB in each bay * 8 = 8 TB roughly) as one large virtual disk as data disk? Best!
So, you mentioned multiple times how there are no usb ports on the back. There are two, and are visible even in the video at 4:38 when you are showing us that there arent any. Look to the left of your network cable. I have the same r720 and this is where i have my mouse and keyboard plugged in. I use the front for flash drives and such.
Awesome video!! Extremely helpful information. I did have a question as I am configuring one of those myself - do you how I can configure each of the NIC Ports to a certain IP address?
Hi Dave, Thanks. you can set a static ip in Bios, You should be able to do it in Proxmox as well after setup. You can also do it at the DHCP level, so you can do a DHCP reservation. You will need to know the MAC address for this (DHCP Reservation).
Great video thank you, tomorrow I will be receiving my first server, r720 dual 2695v2, it's going to be used solely for one program as a render node to my main rig, basically just rendering animations so I can carry on using my main machine, I've never used a VM before, I'm running win 11 on my machine, and have a rack mount nas for project files. Do I need to VM or would it be simpler to just run win 11 on the r720? Will I be losing or gaining anything from not using VM? Thanks man, subbed
Nice, can you kindly make a video on how to do firmware updates on Dell IDRAC, OME, CMC, ISILON with all details steps and what are the pre and post checks done for the same for any VMWARE vcenter servers associated with them before and after implementations of the firmware updates
Hey man yer video is really helpful. I just got my first r330 ever and having lots of issues. Lol. Idrac won’t let me see do virtual connection, some license issue and - I wanted to install proxmox to a usb stick but server don’t like that. I’m slowing down and gonna get a small SSD. Hope I can find one of those drive holders like you have. I hope you do more videos, and if you ever wanna help a newbie let’s FaceTime!!
Hi Paul. You can get the drive holders from Amazon. Maybe we will FaceTime one of these days when I'm less busy. I might start doing live videos as well, and we are all newbies learning as we go. :)
Interesting video - I am installing a similar setup with a small SSD drive and Raid setup for data. Out of curiosity, what did you format your raid data disks as - have read ZFS should be avoided as it likes to act like a software raid and "self heal" and as such doesn't like to sit on top of hardware raid and can easily corrupt.
I was curious and I asked my Burundian cousin to "place" you. Looks like you just can't hide from a fellow African (or curious African-American). Right on! :D
@@scottwilliams4157 lol that's true, and your cousin is on point. Nice to meet you by the way, and thanks for subscribing. I hope we get to share knowledge in the future.
Great work brother! I am learning a lot from watching you. I am a noob and just starting out with VMs and servers and Home labs - so am I right in thinking that once the server is setup and in my case will remain in the garage connected over cat 6 cable to my router and other PCs I can use any PC on the network to access and run the VMs like MacOS, Windows etc? My network is 1gb ethernet - so VMS are run from a web browser over the 1gbs ethernet?
Funny, I am doing something very similar with my 720. Are you keeping your hardware SAS controller? Good work, btw, and good luck on your tests. I’ll be right there with you this year.
there are two usb ports on the back. I agree with putting the USB on the internal port, but I'm not sure why you'd say there aren't USB ports on the back????
You are a life saver. This is awesome. I am a bigfan of Proxmox. My company has HyperV so, I am setting a home lab to learn hyper v. However, I want Proxmox on the bare metal and then have nested HyperV's. do you think this is good idea ? Do you have any videos on nested HyperV on to Proxmox ?
Don't install proxmox on the single SSD drive, if the SSD needs replacement then you will get into trouble. Use RAID for proxmox and storage. You can use software RAID such as zfs or hardware RAID. People like the software RAID because it really does the job. But if you have hardware RAID, then use it and be sure you have a spare RAID controller the exact same thing in case your RAID controller didn't work in the future.
I would like to install Proxmox at work on our R350, but i believe that Dell does not officially support Proxmox. Will i encounter any problems with their support service if i install Proxmox anyway?
Hey, sorry for the late response. I have a Dell server and it works just fine. I will say go for it, but if it’s something that’s used for prod then I will say be careful.
HI Martin, if you are talking about during the installation, then you need to create the raid first before installing Promxmox. You can use the raid controller to do so, or you can also do it in idrac. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have another question.
Hey, I've followed the iDRAC setup you did (with my network credentials-IP, gateway, subnet mask). I've logged into the gateway and checked that everything is accurate, but the iDRAC still doesn't work. I've assigned it to DHCP. Then, when I logged into the gateway, and saw the "iDRAC-..." entry, and entered the IP address it assigned, it doesn't work. Any ideas how to fix it? I'm trying to quiet down the annoyingly loud fans on my R720XD using iDRAC.
Hey Rowan, it’s hard for me to tell you what’s wrong without seeing your configurations, but some of the things I suggest are…Make sure you set a static IP, make sure the reservation is set on the router/gateway, make sure you have the correct license.
Hi, thanks a lot. One question please, what about drivers - especially power management and embedded raid controller(perc s100 in my case) do you need to download/install it separately ?
I am trying to add the cd drive ssd like you have but my server didnt come with a cd drive so there is no cable to connect it to the motherboard. I have looked for days to find it does yours have a part number on it?
Hi, I currently have about 5 VMs running. That is not nearly close to what the server is capable of. I plan to do a lot more soon, maybe i can have a better answer for you then. I will most likely make a video about that. Thanks
@@KoromaTech I was trying tonuse OMSA to manage PERC virtual disks, but using ZFS I ended up flashing my PERC controllers with IT firmware so no more need to use OMSA👍
@@KoromaTech any chance of doing a video on creating zfs storage would be very welcomed …I have 8 x 4TB drives in mine and want to use all 32TB with ZFS for my Plex library but have no idea how to do it!
Niceee. I have my Plex server set up on an Optiplex, and I use my Synology for storage. I use the server mostly for breaking things and learning of course. lol I might make a video about how I set up ZFS on it, but no promise. :)
Hi Just a quick question I have installed the proxmox on raid hardrive but it's not booting. I have also disable the internal USB and my boot option is Raid Hard drive. What am I doing wrong ? If you could guide me please. Thanks
What about RAID 50 or 60? The issues with RAID 5/6 is worse write performance, but it is very cost effective. I would never do RAID 5 because if you loose a drive and have a read error on another drive you can loose the whole array. RAID 60 I feel is the best of all worlds, but you do need at least 8 drives and 4 drives will be lost to parity essentially.
Hi mate. I am having so many issues while installing Proxmox. I think I am doing something wrong here. Initially I had RAID 5 configured and was able to successfully installed Proxmox. I was able to connect to GUI but I had the below issues the first time. Below are what I see in the disk section. And when I go to the directory, to create directory, it is empty. I am sure there is something I am missing. I have SAS drives and I have set up RAID 5 on this machine. Any advice is greatly appreciated. /dev/sda unknown partitions 12.00 TB Yes PERC_H710P /dev/sda1 partition BIOS boot 1.03 MB Yes /dev/sda2 partition EFI 536.87 MB Yes /dev/sda3 partition LVM 12.00 TB Yes So I had to wipe everything and reinstall Proxmox with RAID 5 configured. and now I am getting the below error message. I am using Poweredge R720XD. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I used Rufus to burn to USB. Installation failed failed to prepare EFI boot using Grub on /dev/sda2 : unable to install the EFI boot loader on /dev/sda removing diversion of sbin/start-stop-daemon
