hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes we have an
awesome unboxing today I have the slightest clue what's inside the box
because my 9 to 5 IT manager kind of surprised me I was complaining about one
of my hypervisors I had a PowerEdge 2950 yes
2950 super old processes Oh what I have a couple virtual machines in there that
are very important one one virtual machine is actually the vCenter and I
just wanted a new machine and my boss he surprised me and I don't know what's
inside the box at all I don't know what the specifications I don't know if he
got me a dual-core processor the memory I don't know the size I don't know how
much hard drive space I do know that I'm definitely gonna get this server up and
running as fast as possible because that 2850 it's just complete garbage and
there's one of those things that it's not in warranty so I gotta start
migrating those three virtual machines over to this new machine so I'm gonna do
the unboxing for you guys power it on see what's the deal so let's get started
all right so what comes inside the box I'm super excited
ah he got me the Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 ha ha this is so awesome
looks like three hard drives bay zero, one and three kind of disappointed
because my IT manager knows me already I like to have all the Bay's filled up I
don't know what type of hard drives they are might be SATA don't know the size
but it looks like it's a 480 SATA I'm gonna leave those alone for now inside
the box you get the rail kit extremely important not all servers provide the
rail kit they do but it doesn't come packaged you might have to purchase it
separately I know with Dells when you're checking off what you need like the type
of processor the memory hard drive the rate controller all that other stuff
this is an additional cost so I'm happy that we have this putting this to the side and
inside the rail kit box we have velcro you know cable management it's always a
good thing you have your rack instructions
instructions cool put that to the side we have my nice little Dell EMC grill
and you have your key for those individuals that are server admins do
you lock your servers you know I'll let you know at the bottom on the comment
section let me know do you do not or use do you actually use this I like using it
and I like locking them for some reason even though your lab room is locked
anyway with a card key or you have like a digital pen or fingerprint scanner or
whatever you're using to lock up your Lam room but you know to me I like using
them automatically I see two power cables that tells me that we have two
power supplies ah it's always a good thing when you're purchasing servers is
to get two power supplies is all about redundancy
you know if a power supply goes down the second one is going to keep the server
up and running until you are able to shut down the server safely and then do
whatever you need to do or if it's one of those production servers like a
database like a secret database or a iis server it could continue running with
one power supply but don't don't be cheap
you know replace the power supply that went bad so you can have two of them you
never know if one goes bad the one that's keeping your server up and
running there's a 50/50 chance that it can corrupt or go bad and then you're
just completely you know damn we have to heavy-gauge power cables definitely but
that's inside we have our Dell EMC power edge our 540 getting started guide
we have setting up your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers using the Dell EMC
lifecycle controller Enterprise Dell warranty product and all that good stuff
safety environment - and information and in Spanish I think that's like the Dell
warranty stuff in Spanish and then we have the beautiful r5 40 and this is
awesome this is beautiful so in the back we have two 750 watt power supplies nice
rectangle that 80 plus platinum power supplies man input is 100 to 240 watts
which is 50 to 60 Hertz and then you have a 12 point two volt and output
beautiful it looks like we have four Nick's at the back we have oh he got me
the I drink I drink port ah that's awesome we have a
VGA it looks like we have two 3.1 USB ports in the back we have two Gigabit
Ethernet so we totally have six gigabit ethernet ports it looks like we have a
like a gigabit it looks like we have a network card and then we have two
additional Ethernet ports that I integrate it to the motherboard so a
total of six in total awesome alright so in the front looks like this is your VGA
we have additional either 3.1 or 2.1 I'm not too sure this looks like this is the
management port here cool let's take the sticker out of there yeah yeah we don't
want you yeah we don't want to dis guy either don't you love that love that
sound this looks like an information button
most likely this is gonna light up I'm gonna power this guy on I'm definitely
gonna put the both power supplies get a monitor VGA keyboard mouse set it up so
we could power it on fill the power I typically don't like having the servers
with an operating system so most likely this machine does not have an operating
system because I'm gonna wipe it clean i'ma see if I could you know persuade my
boss to get more hard drives depending on what we got I'm gonna eject them when
you check the first Bay to see what we got yes yes Intel solid state drives
we've got the dcs 4500 series and it is 480 gigs with a 6 gigabit per second
speed oh that is awesome we have three of these we need more of them we need
more the game plan is I'm definitely gonna do a raid we slap this guy back in
here
slap it in there awesome cool I would like to get all it has two four six
eight eight days I would like to get all them 480 gigs solid-state drives so I
could do a raid once I do the raid that will be my raw storage compartment and
then I'm going to get a flash drive maybe a I don't know 16 gig 64 gigs a
flash drive installed VMware ESXi 6 point 7 I think they're already up to
update to or update one on which one I got to look that up install the
operating system on that flash drive boot inside that flash drive so we could
get inside the VMware environment use this guy as our storage start building
our virtual machines I'm not gonna build any virtual machines my game plan is to
migrate the three virtual machines that I have on this crappy power edge 2950 I
don't want to say it's crappy because it's been up and running and it's it's
been performing pretty well I just want to migrate those three virtual machines
to a better warrantied server so I'm excited about this and see if this and
this guy's it's locked see we get our toolkit right here we're
gonna open it up real quick and we're gonna take a closer look
inside of it see how much memory I got I'm excited about the solid-state drives
that's a huge plus but let's take a look inside it'd be so awesome if we have two
CPU processors memory ah I'm hoping maybe 64 gigs of memory that'd be pretty
freakin awesome alright so let's open this guy up and take a closer look
alright so taking a know like a deep look like I'm like all in it like face
in it cuz the smell of a new server feels so awesome and kind
Powers me aha all right so we got this black casing right here I'm going to see
if I could remove it nice and easy one thing I do not like about this setup is
that this black housing right here the network card right here is it's blocking
it so that's gonna be a problem see if I hate you wait a minute wait a
minute can I raise this guy yeah I think I could raise you up think so all right
awesome just but this is I feel like I could raise this guy up but I just
removed this thing I just removed this is a time interface just to remove that
so if you have additional PCI cards or like a network card like I have right
here this right here this entire thing right here is gonna be blocked and you
have to actually raise it to get it removed
okay so it looks like I only have one CPU I don't know what type of CPU I have
I know at the tip right here and the corner gives you a nice little Intel
Xeon processor I don't know what type of model I don't know the clock speed at
all so most likely I will you know have to boot it up and get inside by us to
check out that information it kind of sucks that we have to for fans but you
could get six of them in total at the back right here this is where you can
have your second CPU and I'm assuming these dim banks are for this CPU and
these guys are for here now looks like we only have 64 gigs we have one 64 gig
chip holy crap so awesome 64 gigs is not that bad I want like
stick another 64 gig to get 128 and then max out all the hard drives on the bays
do a raid system that's the game plan I am and then you probably guys are
probably saying to yourself read read the little the little purchase order
that Dell gives you with all the specifications I don't have that you got
to understand I just came back from vacation and when I open my office the
box was there so I was like what is this that's once a my my my boss I was like
what is this he was like didn't you ask for a replacement for the PowerEdge 2850
oh wait 22950 because you know you wanted to you know upgrade the server
and stuff I was so I didn't even bother getting the information I was just happy
that he listened to me and he got me the server let me see if I could stick just
got back in here this is self as a challenge this right here is a challenge
putting it back there we go and then gotta make sure I push this back inside
that slot alright okay okay alright so again I don't have a lot of information
because I'm right now I'm super Poulos and I'm just excited that I have it and
the at the job and I'm excited to like present it to you guys
even though I think and do a follow-up because I need to get this machine up
and running so I'm gonna close this guy up what I'm going to do right now is get
a monitor vga style connection keyboard mouse i'm gonna power it on
and we're gonna take a closer look to see hopefully the clock speed and the
cpu type and we already know the memory we already know what kind of hard drives
they are intel solid state drives 480 gigs with a six gigabit per second speed
on them we only got three of them which is bays are oh one and two we have a
total of eight base we have a lot of ports which is awesome
it's pretty cool that we have six gigabit ethernet
ports for them is an actual NIC card and we have two that are integrated to the
motherboard all right I'm excited so let's go get the stuff and hook it up
all right so I hooked it up with a VGA I think this is a 20 inch Dell monitor
keyboard mouse nothing special right just hooking it up the VGA the
connection for the VGA I used the front rather than the back part power button
is located right here on top of this USB so I'm gonna power this guy on now one
of the cool things I love about servers is when you plug in the power it kind of
like you know how you start a car and then you give it gas goes ah I wish I
recorded that feeling because this is sounds so awesome and powerful right I'm
nerdy not right now whatever so I'm gonna power this guy on press that power
button just use that power what sweet it's initializing configuring the memory
that PowerEdge our 540 virus version is one point five point four I definitely
need to upgrade the BIOS to the latest one that I need to go into the dev site
to see if that's the latest one if not upgrade the BIOS before I start
installing being where on to this machine so right now it's configuring
the memory first time booting a server it takes a while because it needs to do
the BIOS setup you know it needs to check the input/output to make sure
everything is working correctly if not you're going to receive a nasty little
error and then you have to try to fix it so right now is stuck on configuring the
memory I'm feeling the power awesome all three hard drives of lit up I do
like that little lifeline kind of thing like right here it's like a lifeline
it's green well that's scary imagine a red worst color ever when you're dealing
with a server red or even like amber orange whew freaks me out
so it's initializing the serial ata devices which are the hard drives let's
go to f10 let's press f10 to go inside the lifecycle controller all right is
Intel there we go bingo alright so the CPU is an Intel Xeon Gold
5118 CPU with a clock speed of 2.30 gigahertz yeah
that's awesome I'm gonna reboot it's gonna be it's gonna be really loud after
the reboot so we're just gonna let it reboot cuz I gotta shut it down there's
no operating system on this machine at all and you know I got a wipe it clean
definitely gotta get more harddrive so I could build a nice little raid and get
VMware installed into this machine
alright so that's it guys for my unboxing of a huge surprise of a Dell
EMC Dell PowerEdge R 540 has a beautiful Intel Xeon Gold 5118 right what a clock
speed up to 30 gigahertz oh crap I remember that awesome
64 gigs is not that bad I will love how I would love to have seen hundred twenty
eight a lot of hard drives maybe two terabyte hard drives or more but hey I'm
not complaining I'm super happy that my IT manager was able to get this machine
for a replacement that I've been wanting for the longest right now and gotta
understand guys I have a power edge 29 but 2950 that's what I've been saying
throughout the video right people forgetting yeah part of x1 1950s really
old I mean it is and it's been surviving and I have to give it to that machine
that she's beautiful she's awesome she's powerful but she needs an upgrade right
so again if you guys are using an R 540 in your lab or at your 9 to 5 job leave
comments right below how do you got it set up
do you have Microsoft on it is it a Linux box is it a VMware machine what
kind of rate system do you have are you utilizing all the ports in the back hey
leave it at the bottom don't forget about hitting that like
button and I catch you guys on the next one peace out