PowerEdge C6400

This article provides information about the LIC008 error seen when importing the IDRAC License.

This article provides information about how to verify if a Network Interface Card (NIC) is compatible with a PowerEdge Server.

How to Identify the physical slot number in iDRAC based off the device name in vSphere/VSAN.

This document answers questions about SupportAssist Enterprise.

NVIDIA has updated the signing certificate for its UEFI network driver from Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 to Microsoft UEFI CA 2023. PowerEdge 17G platforms already trust the CA 2023 certificate, but 15G/16G and earlier servers require a BIOS update released in December 2025. Systems without this updated certificate support may fail to initialize the NIC UEFI driver when Secure Boot is enabled.

PowerEdge servers do not support operating system installation, or boot from direct CPU‑attached NVMe SSD drives if the metadata format size is not set to 0.

PowerEdge connected Dell NVMe SSDs with the Limited Retry (LR) bit set may experience an increase in failures due to elevated media and data‑integrity error rates.

Dell PowerEdge Toshiba MG08 and MG09 hard drives may encounter uninterruptible Background Media Scanning (BMS), causing I/O errors, or timeouts.

This article provides information about CPU Machine Check errors and common causes and proper handling when errors are seen.

Dell Technologies advises against downgrading Hard Drive or SSD firmware, except in validated scenarios, due to unpredictable results and version reporting issues.

PowerEdge servers crash with PCIe fatal errors while updating Kioxia CM6 NVMe drive firmware.

The Dell SS540 SAS solid state drive is reported as not correctly functioning.

OpenManage Enterprise integration for VMware vCenter may fail to Unmanage hosts with error "UNMANAGE_REMOVE_MEL_FAILURE"

The article describes how to troubleshoot network connectivity issues for network cards.

Seagate Skybolt and SkyboltServoBP drive fails with medium format corrupted errors.

This article presents opportunities to understand and troubleshoot some common causes of fan noise in a PowerEdge server. It is also relevant for 100% fan speeds.

How to create Cluster Shared Volumes by manually calculating the necessary disk space value.

Dell Intel SATA SSD drives may report a not correctly functioning PDR3 event, potentially resulting in a drive failure condition.

Dell solid state drive (SSD) fails after system reports low environment operating temperature.

VMware vCenter registration may fail in OMEVV 1.3 with a custom certificate chain installed in OpenManage Enterprise (OME) or vCenter.

On an ESXi host, if the Flow Control setting on the BCM5720 is modified without a cable inserted, the network interface card (NIC) may fail to establish a link when a cable is later inserted. The issue does not occur if the setting is modified with a cable inserted in the NIC port.

Dell Enterprise SAS, SATA SSD: SMART predictive failures triggered by remaining write endurance falling below the threshold

In some migration scenarios, the OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 target import operation may fail with an error 'Failed to decrypt backup archive' during migration. Use the following article to help in troubleshooting this scenario and various ways to address the failure.

When in a SNAPI enabled configuration, the Dell Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand NICs may display 0000:0000:0000:0000 as the virtual node GUID for the second partition.

Firmware upgrades to Broadcom network devices may fail with a "libpci.so: Cannot open" error when run from a Smart Bootable ISO image created with Dell Repository Manager 3.x.

Increased fan spinning noise. PowerEdge 15G servers equipped with a Dell Intel X710 Open Compute Project (OCP3) Network card after upgrading the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) firmware to version 7.00.30.00

Dell SAS SSD models SS530 and SS540, when used as a VMware vSAN cache tier, show accelerated write endurance loss.

When creating a Power Control job from OpenManage Enterprise and the following wizard options are selected Power Options: Power Cycle and 'Shutdown OS First' box is checked results in the target host systems being ForceReset.

This article discusses memory speed display in Task Manger in Windows Server 2019 which does not match the display in the BIOS or what is displayed in the iDRAC web interface.

OpenManage Enterprises Make Compliance Firmware Baseline task may not update iDRAC when multiple components have been selected.