PowerEdge R730xd

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.

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 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.

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

This article describes how to view and clear the system event log (SEL) in System Setup.

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.

PowerEdge customers using Broadcom NXE adapters in VMware ESXi may experience unexpected results when attempting to tune port parameters. Particularly in configurations with multiple NXE adapters present, understanding the port ordering from both a VMware (vmnicX) and serverPCI-e Slot-Bus-Device-Function (SBDF) may be helpful to select the appropriate commands.

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