High-End Virtualization Server 12-Core 144GB RAM 12TB RAID Dell PowerEdge R710 (Certified Refurbished)

The server arrived well-packaged and earlier than expected. I couldn’t be happier: the product was exactly as represented minus a few scratches and blemishes from previous use. It works beautifully and at this price it is a steal. If you’d like, go to Dell’s website and start building up a new server for delivery from the factory and you’ll see what I mean. I am very happy that I ran across this offer.

Here are a couple of helpful tips for anybody stumbling through the process of familiarizing themselves with this type of enterprise server hardware and preparing the server for installing the chosen server operating system/vm host operating system for the first time: Googling “Dell Support for PowerEdge R710” links you to a page on Dell’s website with all the manuals, drivers, and other information for this particular server model. Also, Dell’s website knowledge base has a very helpful article entitled, “Dell Driver and Firmware Update Strategies for Server Storage and Networking Systems” which outlines the various ways you can go about obtaining the necessary drivers, firmware updates, and management tools to successfully set up and manage the server. Finally, the one driver which took me forever to locate for proper monitor display via the serial port is called, “Dell Update Package: G200eW Video Controller, 4.00.01.004, 1.0”. The default driver which Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard installed caused every monitor I tried to display at such a low resolution that I literally couldn’t click on certain needed icons for setup on the GUI because they were located outside of the display.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Server arrived in a timely manner and was well wrapped and packaged. Everything turned on and was functional from the beginning, no issues.

Great product, great people.

Awesome server. I’ve been using it for over 4 months now in my home as a lab. Great for large workloads. I am running Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V.