Quick question. I’m trying to understand the NIC functionality of this server. NIC specs from manual: My question is, do the two broadcom controller chips provide fail-over redundancy? For example, is it design intention that if a controller chip dies then the other takes over (with only 2 ports?). Thanks. Answer The two NICs in … Read more
I have a problem of slow file transfer in one direction on a 3 of my servers with 2008 on them. the test i have done is to copy a 400Mb file from a PC to 1 server takes approx 30 secs if i then try to copy it back to the PC it estimates … Read more
I’ve got 4 Cisco UCS C210 M2 servers, each with a Broadcom NetXtreame II BCM5709 Quad-port adapter in it. They are all running vSphere 5.1 U1. On one the servers, the Broadcom ports show up as both vmnics, as well as iSCSI HBAs. On the other 3, I only see the vmnics lists. Anyone have … Read more
Earlier today, we attempted to update the Broadcom BCM5716C network drivers on a Windows Server 2003. (Dell PowerEdge T310, FWIW). Since then we have not been able to boot the server in any normal mode. Safe Mode works. Safe Mode with Networking and regular bootups hang at “Applying Network Settings.” I haven’t tried Last Known … Read more
I decided to recycle an old server, Dell Poweredge 860 Service Tag: B21N5F1, that had vyatta (a what use to be open-source firewall os) firewall installed on it. I went ahead and did a clean install of CentOS 6.6 (64 bit) via a bootable usb. I have installed CentOS 6.6 atleast eight times before this, … Read more
I’m encountering some odd behavior and wondering if anyone has ideas what would be causing it. Setup: 2x 2.4GHz Opteron quad cores, 8GB RAM, 2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA2 drives, with Clean minimal CentOS 7 install running no workloads (yet) and nothing except updates installed. Here’s the average write speed I’m seeing using dd (variance … Read more
I’ve got a really strange problem running Xenserver 7.0 (tried 7.1 as well) on a Dell M620 with BCM57810 network card. The whole setup is fine and running flawlessly with no traffic. I’ve got a Windows Server 2016 running and can access it with RDC through a Vyos firewall etc. On another virtual machine I … Read more
Is there a way to work with the patch suggested here to get this to work? I downloaded the latest drivers from QLogic (who bought Broadcomm). Their support reply was: As of April 13, 2015 we must refer all requests for downloads back to the vendor who supplied the product. All of these products were … Read more
After two days of troubleshooting, I have figured out why my ESXi NIC teaming is failing. I have the following network topology (simplified): vmnic0 is currently set to unused on the ESXi virtual switch. Packet dumps (from the host) show NO outgoing packets on this physical interface. However, my network connectivity to this host on … Read more
I have Broadcom SiteMinder which authenticates username/password on an on-premise Active Directory. Now I need to add a 2nd factor authentication using Microsoft Authenticator App. I haven’t found any information on how to integrate SiteMinder with Microsoft Authenticator. Any ideas? Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : mark009 , Answer Author : Community
