dell 720

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    Issues with installing Nvidia Legacy 390xx driver

    Hi all, newbie here; I'm using an old dell R720 which has an old Nvidia Grid K1 gpu card installed and cant seem to have any success getting the nvidia drivers installed for, I have added the non-free and non-free-firmware source to /etc/apt/sources.list # Debian Sid deb...
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    Error Preparing initrd: Bad Buffer Size on fresh install

    I'm running a dell r720xd with 12 4tb drives in the front and 2 256gb SSDs in the back. I installed Proxmox in ZFS raid 1 on the SSDs and when I boot I get the error "Error Preparing initrd: Bad Buffer Size." I updated all bios, firmware and put my raid card into I.T mode etc. I also can only...
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    Slow performance Dell R720 on VMs Windows/Linux

    Hi, I have a problem with virtual machines running on pve 7.3.6, namely we migrated from esxi server 6.7 standard, both systems were running on a Dell R720 with E5-2690v2 processors, 512GB RAM DDR3 1600MHz Samsung, 24 Pilant LB 406S 400GB drives and a MegaRAID controller L9460-16i. 22 drives are...
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    Need help with some initial setup decisions

    TLDR; novice needs help with a setup for a charity hospital in rural Africa Greetings, So a bit of a primer: I'm a surgeon, not an IT professional. Unfortunately, I'm also one of the most technically capable individuals at my hospital in rural Burundi. There is a national push toward...