PowerEdge R730xd

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

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

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.

This article provides information about exporting the Tech Support Report (TSR) / SupportAssist Collection, including the Operating System, Application Data, and the RAID controller log. This is done using the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) command-line interface (CLI) of Dell PowerEdge servers generations 12, 13, and 14.

This document answers questions about SupportAssist Enterprise.

The drive will assert due to a log full condition after the first power cycle when it reaches 70000 Power On Hours (POH). The drive will not process read or write commands once in this state.

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

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.

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.

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

Encountering PR8 errors in the LifeCycle (LC) log when using a BlueField-3 (BF3) Data Processing Units (DPU) card (DPN: HFWRM).

The article provides the solution to the firmware update errors for ConnectX-4 LX NICs SWB 76DNG version 14.32.21.02 & ConnectX-5 dual port SWB 1GF8G version 16.35.40.30.

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.

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.

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

In Windows Server 2025, when leveraging CPUs with more than 256 cores, the Broadcom BCM5720 fails to retrieve a DHCP address, leading to no network connectivity.

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.