Anyone installed PM VE (ideally older versions) on a Dell R630 and got the networking going?

mylesw

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I have had a bunch of these servers colocated and never had a problem with PM 6.3 on them. We received a new one recently and it was shipped to a remote data center. It is supposed to be clustered with a PM 5.2 machine (older R610) so I attempted to install PM 5.4 on it. It installed fine, recognized the NICs (the Dell R630 has 4 of them as standard) and I configured the BIOS and disconnected IDRAC from the NICs.

I have a very basic network config, and it shows that the NIC1 (ENO1) is up. I have the IPs set to it just fine.

But no Ping at all. It could be a DC issue, but before I try and diagnose this with the Ops at the DC, I wanted to know if anyone had any positive experience with the R630s and PM 5 installations in the past? I realize this is pretty old, but hoping someone had some memories of this.

Thanks
 
Connect idrac with network and get console, then login and check "ip a" for link up and or any errors for further troubleshooting.