What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about configuring the
power edge R620 Dell remote access controller port, which is actually located right here
in the back.
This is the port that we are configuring today.
I have a VGA cable connected to a monitor
my mouse and keyboard hooked up in the back.
Both power supplies are hooked up.
plugged into the surge protector.
I'm going to plug in the ethernet cable to the port.
Now we are going to configure and also make sure that you're plugging in a cable that's
connected to your network.
And also, that is able to assign
an IP address to this machine.
Okay, you want a
dynamic IP address assigned to this machine automatically.
And then once you're inside the controller interface, then you're able to configure a
static IP address.
Okay,
so let's go on front
power button is located right here next to the Dell logo let's power this guy on.
Awesome.
Beautiful.
Right now is configuring the memory.
And
once it boots up you have to pay attention, I have to pay attention.
Make sure I have to click on a keyboard command.
All right, initializing the Dell remote access controller that is done.
That's the RAID controller which I'm going to configure pretty soon with you guys I don't
have any virtual drives as of yet.
We will do that pretty soon.
our initialization is completed, it's entering the Lifecycle Controller right now.
You see the loading bar right now loading up.
Okay, so the Lifecycle
Controller little pre built
OS has already loaded up things to do.
We need to get the latest firmware which I am going to do a little later.
But we need to configure the server for remote access using the Dell remote access controller
port so we're going to click on this guy right here.
Awesome.
And then from here you want
to go inside network.
Alright, so it's gonna take you here, and automatically,
it is enabled by
default.
Right, the NIC is enabled by default, which is good.
We are going to scroll down a little bit,
where it says ipv4 settings,
it's enabled
enabled DHCP is actually disabled.
So I'm actually going to enable it.
And because I want you to get an IP address, I mean don't get me wrong, you're able to
disable it and then just provide your own IP
address from here.
That's up to you if you have an available IP address within your you know your network,
assign it apply it and you should be good to go.
But I
want to enable it for now.
And I am going to go back.
I'm going to click on
finish, it's going to give me a nice little warning stating settings have changed so you
want to save the changes and yes on that, once you save is going to give you a nice
little success dialog box just click OK here, it's going to take you back here.
So, at the upper right corner click on exit.
Do you want to exit and reboot I'm going to hit yes alright so the R620 rebooted again
we made changes to the Lifecycle Controller we configured the Dell remote access controller
port to DHCP.
Once I rebooted it stopped here, I don't have a boot, so I'm not going to press F1, F2 is
for the system setup, F11 is for the BIOS boot manager.
I'm going to actually do a Ctrl, Alt DELETE command, because I want to reboot, and I need
to get back inside
the Lifecycle Controller, because I stepped out for a bit and I missed it, that's the
reason why I got that
retry or get inside the BIOS
or get inside the system setup.
Alright so I'm gonna press F10
F10 to get inside the life cycle controller.
Again, like I said, I stepped out
and as the reason why I got that stop within BIOS to press f1 f2 or f11.
Alright so we are back inside the Lifecycle Controller.
We are going to click on configure server for remote access click on that guy.
Awesome. and come on.
Awesome.
We are going to click on network.
And we're going to go all the way to the bottom right here.
Awesome.
All right, so everything is set to enable.
So we need to locate this machine within my network.
And to do that, we need
to get inside my DNS server, and see if this machine was given an IP address and then we
are able to log into the machine again.
You don't need to do this step.
If you
have an IP address that's available within your pool,
just basically click on disable assign the static IP address, the gateway, the subnet
save the settings reboot and then you should be good to go.
But for me, I wanted to do a DHCP.
So I'm actually going to go inside my network scan the network and see what IP address this
guy received, and we will continue configuring.
Alright so we just finished plugging in our Ethernet cable into the Dell remote access
controller port.
We need to find an IP address so the way that I found my IP address is pretty simple.
I have a DHCP server running within my infrastructure, and it picked it up.
The IP addresses one one 12.
And that's pretty cool.
Right.
So what you're going to do is open up your favorite browser I open up Chrome, type in
that IP address hit enter, you're going to get this the connection is not private.
It's okay and click on advance, click Proceed to that particular IP address.
Now the default username and password for the Dell remote access controller portal is
typically, I think root and Calvin.
I know with the latest models of the power edge servers within the Dell lineup, they
have like a nice little thing you pull out, and it gives you the past code for this portal,
or the default one, it is root and Calvin if you enter that information, and you hit
enter, it's gonna verify the credentials and it is going to want you to provide your password
so provide a new password confirm the new password hit Continue.
And it takes you here.
Now, rather than going directly to the server and my hands are shaking a lot because you
know I'm always nervous.
We're going to do the rest of the configuration within the Virtual Console we're going to
click on launch, and when you click on launch within the Chrome environment, it's going
to want you to download something So Chrome is not really supported on this portal.
So that means we have to use.
Yes, we have to use Internet Explorer.
So when you launch it within Internet Explorer, it looks like it loads up.
It's going to want you to install something so I'll click on Install.
Click yes for the User Account Control, you get this nice little dialog box, just click
on allow, and click on Run, it's going to start connecting to the virtual console server
and now you're inside the Lifecycle Controller of that machine how awesome is that, it kind
of sucks that only works for Internet Explorer.
I was having so many issues with Chrome, From here we are going to click on configure server
for remote access click on that, it takes you here, then we want to go inside network,
and within network.
That's it.
you're going to go all the way to the bottom.
And, you know, the DNS name is that crazy name that we saw within my DHCP server.
Right.
And if you want you're able to basically
disable the
DHCP right disable it and assign a static IP address, as well as a subnet.
And that's it.
You're good to go.
Then once you do all that information click on back, and then click on Finish.
It's
going to want you to save the changes that you made
click Yes, and then you go reboot your machine and now you have a static IP address to log
into your power edge server.
Unfortunately this power edge was actually the power edge 620 that I purchased.
and we kind of did the unboxing together.
And I'm configuring everything a little by little and pushing out all these videos for
you guys so hopefully you guys enjoy this stuff, because I'm going to be pushing out
even more.
I think on the next video we will configure together the RAID.
Right.
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Peace out.