PowerEdge T710

This article provides steps to troubleshoot a chassis intrusion, chassis open message for PowerEdge servers.

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

Dell PowerEdge servers with common design components are grouped into generations, for example PowerEdge 17th generation servers, 16th generation, 15th generation, or 14th generation. This article provides general guidance for PowerEdge server model naming convention to identify the generation and common components. This article also lists all PowerEdge servers by model including type, CPU, generation, and remote management components.

This article explains what disk errors PDR1001 and PDR3 mean on Dell PowerEdge servers and the best practices to resolve these issues. By understanding these alerts and acting promptly, you can maintain storage health, prevent downtime, and protect critical data.

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

PowerEdge 14G, 15G, 16G, and 17G servers skip Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot when an "Unavailable" entry is last in the boot order.

Fans reporting FAN0000/FAN0001 errors (RPM below warning or critical) should be removed and swapped to another connector; if the error follows the fan, replace it.

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

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

PowerEdge: Dell service support for end of industry production of 2.5" 15k RPM SAS hard drives

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

Dust or chemical contamination at the endface of a fiber optic LC connector or transceiver module impedes signaling. Dell engineering teams have verified cases in which a fully functional port appears to be a bad port because dirty optical connectors manifest as a port failing loop testing with acceptable power measurement levels. Cable connectors should be cleaned and when stored must be protected from dust particle or chemical contamination.

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.

This article provides information about Fatal BUS errors seen with PCI1360 and PCI1318.

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.

Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) Live Migration may fail or no LUNs are mapped after powering on VMs due to Windows architecture and hardware configuration limiting the number of vFC LUNs.

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 Samsung Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PM1653 and PM1655 solid state drives may report excessive Sense Key faults 0x3, 0x11, 0x0, or 0x4, 0x29, 0x4. These faults have the potential to cause unexpected drive issues.

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

This article explains why the Windows Boot Drive (hosting the C:\ volume) may show as removeable media in Windows and how to override the behavior when necessary.

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.

This article provides three methods to confirm the SSD Piece Part Identification (PPID)

The Dell HBA465e or HBA355e SAS host bus adapter (HBA) may be supplied as a drop in box (DIB) item alongside PowerEdge servers. This article provides direction on selecting an appropriate PCI-e slot.