Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering Team. Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8 Operating System on Feb 2012, which includes driver updates, bug fixes and support for new hardware. For detailed information, please refer to RHEL 5.8 release...

Posted on behalf of Srinivas Gowda from Dell Linux Engineering Team Dell recently announced 12 th Generation PowerEdge Servers . It supports host of new features and Hardware. One such hardware feature is to use KCS interrupts for IPMI communication from Linux OS to Baseboard Management Controller...

Introduction Systems management, which includes managing OS updates, hardware information and overall system health, has always been a tedious and hard-to-manage task for I/T administrators. If you run Ubuntu, you can use Landscape , an all-in-one in-band systems management tool from Canonical used...

By day (and some nights, weekends, maintenance windows, etc.), Matt Vogt is the Sr. Systems Administrator for Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. By night (and some lunch breaks, nights, weekends), he blogs at http://mattvogt.posterous.com about Virtualization, Storage and Community...

Earlier today, Dell revealed the 12th Generation of PowerEdge servers at a San Francisco press conference led by Dell Chief Executive Officer, Michael Dell. At the press event, Dell shared how the new servers were designed with customer needs in mind, whether that means making servers less time consuming...

You may have heard about Dell Customized VMware ESXi images. For those who doesn’t know what’s really extra in Dell customized images, here you go: Dell’s customization of VMware ESXi image includes adding new or updated VMware IOVP certified drivers relevant for Dell hardware and...

Dell has made managing BIOS, driver, firmware, and software updates easier with Dell Repository Manager (DRM) , a tool that allows you to create customized repositories of bundles and updates that help you keep your Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell business client laptops and desktops up to date. The...

The following post was authored by Ashutosh Engg, Manager for Dell connection for HP/IBM/CA products. Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus With the release of Dell OpenManage Connection v1.0 for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3.1, Datacenter customers who use Netcool/OMNIbus...

The following was authored by Rob Cox, part of Dell’s OpenManage Systems Management console team. We are happy to be rolling out our new “one-to-many” Systems Management Console to you this week. Open Manage Essentials is an easy-to-install and easy-to-use console for basic hardware...

Earlier this year, Novell released SUSE Manager, a systems management solution for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) systems, which provides management, system provisioning and monitoring capabilities. What I particularly like about SUSE Manager is that it is based on the open source project Spacewalk...

I'm here in Las Vegas at my first VMworld with 20,000 other computer geeks from around the world. We're all here to network with tech influencers, share best practices, and learn about the latest and greatest offerings from VMware. As the Systems Management Evangelist on the Dell TechCenter team...

Novell recently announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 (SLES 10 SP4). SLES 10 SP4 includes bug fixes and support for new hardware. Please refer to SLES 10 SP4 release notes from Novell for more details. In addition to Dell’s extensive validation of the features...

OpenManage Server Administrator is now updated to 6.5 and is available for download. You can check out what is new in OMSA 6.5 by going to the documentation page. For this release, we added Release.gpg to the repository, so that you can use apt-key to authenticate packages. For directions on...

The following is posted on behalf of Prudhvi Tella, an engineer on Dell's Linux Engineering team The Linux team is pleased to announce the release of 32-bit version of OpenManage 6.4 for Ubuntu/Debian. The 64-bit version was released about a week ago . Both 32-bit and 64-bit releases should be...

It seems that just yesterday, I was creating a demo for the M1000e CMC 3.0 and now here we are, talking about the benefits of CMC 3.1. The engineers at Dell continually strive to improve our server products and simplify the IT experience for customers. Today we would like to share a video that highlights...

The following is posted on behalf of Prudhvi Tella, an engineer on the Linux OS Engineering team. The Linux OS Engineering team is pleased to announce the second release of OpenManage for Ubuntu. OpenManage 6.4 64-bit version is now available for download. However, a 32-bit version will also be released...

This is posted on behalf of Chandrasekhar R, an engineer on Dell's Open Manage Server Administrator engineering team With the launch of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6 (RHEL 6) operating system, the open-source systems management components required to deploy Dell OpenManage Server Administrator...

This post authored by Chris A. Poblete - Dell Engineering. As I said in my earlier entry , I’ll be giving you some insight in some of the ways you might use WSMAN with the PowerEdge 11G server’s iDRAC6. In this entry, I’ll cover how you may discover features available in WSMAN...

This post authored by Bhaskar Mukkamala Dell Server Engineering Team. What makes Dell PowerEdge servers different? Dell PowerEdge® Servers are shipped with Unified Server Configurator that is enabled with Lifecycle Controller. Lifecycle Controller is a UEFI standard compliant Pre-OS deployment utility...

This post Authored by Bhaskar Mukkamala - Dell Server Engineering Dell Unified Server Configurator enabled with Lifecycle Controller is a single interface for complete system deployment. It provides interface for firmware updates, hardware configuration, RAID management and native deployment of Operating...

This post authored by Elie Jreij - Dell PowerEdge Server Engineering With Dell’s 11 th generation servers , you can deploy a new server by simply connecting AC power and network cable. Lifecycle Controller will take care of the rest. Lifecycle Controller (LC) is one of the advanced...

The following was written by Chris A. Poblete I’m a software engineer in the Enterprise Product Group developing systems management software for Dell servers. WSMAN is the latest interface added to Dell’s enterprise remote server management that is open and based on standards. A resounding...

The following post was written by Dell Engineering's David Waggoner. OS deployment can be a long, painful process filled with various roadblocks and dead-ends, especially for those who don’t have the need or desire for an automated infrastructure . Just choosing one of the various options...

This is a followup to my previous blog entry about changes in Dell OpenManage 6.2 . With the release of Dell OpenManage 6.2 , one very large and noticeable change is a major simplification in the way we structure our RPM scripting. Specifically, this refers to the scripting in each individual RPM...

Peter Giulietti and Aaron Prince are the Dell engineers behind the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) Business Ready Configuration (BRC) and Solutions Guide. I caught up with them in their lab to discuss their experiences around the Dell AIM solution. Q1: What is the Dell AIM BRC? Three...