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Understand and troubleshoot PowerEdge hard disk drives, RAID, PowerEdge RAID Controller, and other storage hardware such as cables, backplane, so forth.
Updated: December 03, 2025
ID: 000110444
This page explains the difference between drivers and firmware and how to update them on Dell PowerEdge Servers using different methods.
Updated: December 02, 2025
ID: 000128194
This article explains how to use iDRAC Direct to manage your PowerEdge server.
Updated: December 04, 2025
ID: 000130077
This article explains what a predictive drive failure (error code PDR16) means, why it occurs, and provides step-by-step instructions to troubleshoot and resolve the issue. It covers recommended actions such as backing up data, updating firmware, and replacing the disk if necessary to ensure storage health and prevent data loss.
Updated: December 04, 2025
ID: 000126418
This article explains what disk errors PDR1001 and PDR3 mean on Dell PowerEdge servers, how physical drive LED indicators provide quick visual diagnostics, 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.
Updated: December 04, 2025
ID: 000143247
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
Updated: December 02, 2025
ID: 000130160
This article explains how to create a Virtual Disk using the System Settings menu.
Updated: December 01, 2025
ID: 000178269
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.
Updated: November 28, 2025
ID: 000308774
Correctable and uncorrectable memory errors on PowerEdge Server with DDR4 and changes to troubleshooting steps
Updated: November 25, 2025
ID: 000053203
This article provides information about Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) PCIe cards. It also provides instructions for installing Windows, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and related Linux distributions onto these cards.
Updated: November 24, 2025
ID: 000177584
This article describes how to gather the necessary log files to troubleshoot a vSphere Tanzu issue.
Updated: November 12, 2025
ID: 000187022
Find answers and resources to get started or do more from your MyService360 dashboard with enterprise services data analytics and visualizations.
Updated: November 10, 2025
ID: 000124666
After upgrading iDRAC9 firmware to version 7.20.60.50 or 7.20.70.50, storage components may not be displayed or the status may appear as Unknown.
Updated: November 10, 2025
ID: 000388426
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.
Updated: November 08, 2025
ID: 000252982
This article provides steps to troubleshoot a chassis intrusion, chassis open message for PowerEdge servers.
Updated: November 05, 2025
ID: 000136481
Dell PowerEdge Toshiba MG08 and MG09 hard drives may encounter uninterruptible Background Media Scanning (BMS), causing I/O errors, or timeouts.
Updated: October 28, 2025
ID: 000381662
This article provides information about how to update your system's firmware from the Lifecycle Controller on Dell servers.
Updated: October 28, 2025
ID: 000128133
Fan speed oscillates from 8% to 100% in 15G and 16G PowerEdge systems after updating iDRAC to version 7.20.10.05.
Updated: October 27, 2025
ID: 000296485
This article provides guidance for the Dell System Update (DSU).
Updated: October 21, 2025
ID: 000130590
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.
Updated: October 16, 2025
ID: 000226155
Dell Samsung PM893 SSDs with Firmware HJ55 or Earlier Experience Premature SMART Failures
Updated: September 26, 2025
ID: 000333265
This article explains how to test the configured iDRAC email alerts settings.
Updated: September 19, 2025
ID: 000203083
Dell Enterprise SAS, SATA SSD: SMART predictive failures triggered by remaining write endurance falling below the threshold
Updated: September 17, 2025
ID: 000221846
Unsure about the procedure to update a specific component's firmware in a PowerEdge system? Learn how to in this specific article.
Updated: September 15, 2025
ID: 000333712
Domain Name System (DNS) resolving the local hostname may return the internal IP address of the USB Network Interface Card (NIC) passthrough device enabled by iDRAC Service Module (iSM). This can cause issues with internal network devices configured with 169.254.x.x nonroutable addresses. The metric of the USB NIC device should be manually set to a high number so that internal network devices take precedence.
Updated: September 11, 2025
ID: 000177295
This article details the procedure to troubleshoot power supply unit (PSU) issues that may arise on a PowerEdge Server.
Updated: September 10, 2025
ID: 000127944
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT) enabled through the BIOS Dell Controlled Turbo setting may provide the optimal solution for low latency performance. This article provides a summary of this Dell EMC technology, licensing requirements and required steps to enable this setting.
Updated: September 09, 2025
ID: 000129434
This article shows how to add additional disks to a virtual disk or reconfigure a virtual disk.
Updated: September 09, 2025
ID: 000116592
The article describes updating Dell PowerEdge server firmware through Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 7, 8, 9, or 10. It details downloading the firmware image, logging in to the iDRAC web interface, uploading the image for installation, and managing pending updates.
Updated: September 09, 2025
ID: 000134013
This article is designed to address installing the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) role using Windows PowerShell. This guide details adding the WSUS role with PowerShell, covering installation and management cmdlets like Get-WsusUpdate for update control and synchronization settings.
Updated: September 05, 2025
ID: 000121387