{"id":373,"date":"2008-02-06T20:39:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/373"},"modified":"2012-11-24T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T10:53:57","slug":"dell-poweredge-cpu-check-for-intel-vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/373","title":{"rendered":"Dell PowerEdge CPU check for Intel VT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I installed three Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers, these servers were running as VMWare Server\u00a0 virtualization hosts. Couple times when creating and migrating some VM&#8217;s a warning was displayed that my processors where not VT capable or this options was not enabled.<\/p>\n<p>To enable this option a reboot was needed, enter the BIOS (F2) and change the Intel VT Virtualization Technology CPU setting.\u00a0 Every month I planned s a scheduled maintenance\u00a0 window to install missing security updated, and I didn&#8217;t want to wait for that reboot and manually configure these options from the BIOS. I created two scripts to check the processor specifications and enable the VT option for the processor.<\/p>\n<p>To run the following scripts Dell OpenManage software is required.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:text\">@echo off \r\nREM Ivan Versluis \/ www.networknet.nl \/ Dell PowerEdge Intel VT check \r\nomreport chassis biossetup &amp; omreport chassis processors<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/DellPowerEdgeCPUcheckforIntelVT_BA1F\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"511\" height=\"251\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:text\">@echo off \r\nREM Ivan Versluis \/ www.networknet.nl \/ Dell PowerEdge Intel VT enable \r\nomconfig chassis biossetup attribute=cpuvt setting=enabled \r\nomconfig chassis biossetup attribute=dbs setting=enable \r\npause<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/DellPowerEdgeCPUcheckforIntelVT_BA1F\/image_3.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"640\" height=\"110\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/downloads\/global\/solutions\/vmotion_compatibility_matix.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">document<\/a>. I run the enable CMD script on my servers and waited for the scheduled reboot. After the reboot the new settings was applied and I didn&#8217;t get the warning from VMWare Server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I installed three Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers, these servers were running as VMWare Server\u00a0 virtualization hosts. Couple times when creating and migrating some VM&#8217;s a warning was displayed that my processors where not VT capable or this options was not enabled. To enable this option a reboot was needed, enter the BIOS (F2) and change the Intel VT Virtualization Technology CPU setting.\u00a0 Every month I planned s a scheduled maintenance\u00a0 window to install missing security updated, and I didn&#8217;t want to wait for that reboot and manually configure these options from the BIOS. I created two scripts to check the processor specifications and enable the VT option for the processor. To run the following scripts Dell OpenManage software is required. @echo off REM Ivan Versluis \/ www.networknet.nl \/ Dell PowerEdge Intel VT check omreport chassis biossetup &amp; omreport chassis processors @echo off REM Ivan Versluis \/ www.networknet.nl \/ Dell PowerEdge Intel VT enable omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=cpuvt setting=enabled omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=dbs setting=enable pause For more information check out this document. I run the enable CMD script on my servers and waited for the scheduled reboot. After the reboot the new settings was applied and I didn&#8217;t get the warning from VMWare Server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[184,185,791,186,183,182,181,11],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dell","tag-cpuvt","tag-dbs","tag-dell","tag-enable","tag-omconfig","tag-omreport","tag-poweredge","tag-script"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}