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The PowerEdge embedded LifeCycle Controller provides a simplified method for installation of supported Windows Server and Linux server operating systems with the OS Deployment feature. This article explains how to use the iDRAC LifeCycle Controller to install a supported operating system on most Dell PowerEdge servers. Step-by-step instructions and OS installation videos for Windows Server, Ubuntu Server LTS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation with LifeCycle Controller

Unsure about the procedure to update a specific component's firmware in a PowerEdge system? Learn how to in this specific article.

Find answers and resources to get started or do more from your MyService360 dashboard with enterprise services data analytics and visualizations.

This article outlines the actions required to prepare a system for retirement or repurposing using the LifeCycle controller.

The firmware of PowerEdge server hard drives is a critical component in the server system. Regularly updating and maintaining this firmware is essential for server performance, security, and compatibility. Hard drive firmware updates can often fix known hardware faults and issues, address identified vulnerabilities and security problems, and potentially introduce new features, improvements, and enhancements.

To replace a CMOS battery, remove the air shroud, disconnect and remove any expansion cards, locate the battery socket, and carefully pry out the CMOS battery. After installing a new CMOS battery, you must reinstall the expansion cards, install the air shroud, and restore the BIOS settings, ensuring the battery is operating properly and the correct data and time are set in the System Setup.

This article explains multiple methods to reset the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) both locally and remotely including reset, reset to defaults and reset to customer configuration.

When running the nvidia-smi command, you may encounter a driver error stating that "nvidia-smi has failed because it could not communicate with the NVIDIA driver.

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.

This article provides information about how to use the LCC to deploy a supported OS.

This how-to explains the commands and shows the results of outputs for the same to retrieve your service tag using a command console. It is displayed as the system serial number.

This article shows how to use and set up the virtual media function of Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 6, 7, 8, or 9.

This article shows how to add additional disks to a virtual disk or reconfigure a virtual disk.

This article provides guidance for the Dell System Update (DSU).

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

This article explains how to create and import an iDRAC certificate.

The below article is a workaround mechanism to recover PowerEdge systems from critical log entry "SWC5008 Unable to access Front LED Panel because of a hardware error condition" for a few versions of the iDRAC.

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

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 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.

Dell Samsung PM893 SSDs with Firmware HJ55 or Earlier Experience Premature SMART Failures

R7725, R6725, R7715, and R6715 the number of CPU Cores is not recognized correctly.

The "Predictive failure reported for disk x" error continues to be logged every 24 hours, even after the identified drive has been replaced. The issue only affects drives connected to PERC Controllers in RAID configuration.

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

DSU and SUU may not inventory any server components due to a crash caused in the invcol.exe module. Inventory Collector 24.09 and newer is no longer fully compatible with Windows Server 2016.

CPUs can be perceived to be hot while server is idle.

iDRAC Service Module (iSM) 5.4 and older versions fail to upload SupportAssist collections back to Dell. A "handshake API" error occurs. This upload feature has been deprecated due to the receiving servers at Dell had been decommissioned.

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

Attempts to update the Broadcom NetXtreme 5719 and 5720 Network Interface Card (NIC) using the .bin file with sudo in Linux results in an 'Inventory Collection Failure' error.