PowerEdge R7725xd

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 details the procedure to troubleshoot power supply unit (PSU) issues that may arise on a PowerEdge Server.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for Dell AMD-based PowerEdge Server Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

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 addresses an issue in which conversion of Windows Server from an evaluation to a fully licensed edition fails. The error that is returned appears to indicate a problem with the supplied product key, but the key is known to be valid.

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.

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.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for Dell AMD-based PowerEdge Server Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for Dell AMD-based PowerEdge Server Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

vCenter enables Active Directory (AD) and login by Active Directory users have notification "Password will expire in X days," customer must eliminate it.

How to use the PowerEdge Server ePSA tools to stress test the CPU.

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

Dell Micron 7450 and 7500 Non-Volatile Memory Express solid state drives may encounter drive initialization failure due to a firmware issue, resulting in the solid state drives being unrecoverable.

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS remediation is available for a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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

This article provides a high‑level guide to downloading vendor‑specific firmware and drivers for common PowerEdge NICs such as NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Intel. These processes complement Dell Update Packages (DUPs) and are used when vendor‑specific firmware or drivers are required beyond Dell’s updates.

This is the start-up page for a new Dell PowerEdge Server with an Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The article details system installation, use of the iDRAC, LifeCycle Controller (LCC) configuration, and installing an operating system.

Reports show NVLink failures on an R760XA with NVIDIA H100NVL GPUs and bridges, with 12 of 18 links active; standby links are incorrectly flagged as down due to a issue in DCGM versions up to 3.1.3.1.

After upgrading to ESXi and vCenter 8.0 or 8.0 U1, Dell AMD PowerEdge servers are encountering an issue where VM CPU load graphs exceed 100%. This leads to inaccurate CPU usage representation in the vCenter UI, particularly for AMD EPYC processors The problem arises from undocumented changes in the upgrade. A resolution is under development for inclusion in vSphere 8.0U2.

The information below covers the steps involved in installing SLES 15 OS in Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers using HTTP Boot.

NVIDIA adapters (ConnectX NICs and DPUs) running firmware version xx.46.1006 may encounter NC‑SI communication failures, resulting in incorrect device reporting and visibility issues within management tools such as iDRAC and Redfish.

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.

iDRAC10 firmware version 1.20.50.50 was removed from Dell Technologies' eSupport downloads website due to two high impact issues. This article outlines those issues and remediation plans.

On Dell PowerEdge 17G servers equipped with factory installed industry standard ConnectX 6 Dx cards, applying the Mellanox ConnectX 6 Dx firmware update from within the operating system may fail to detect all adapters. This can result in incomplete firmware updates in multi card configurations. This limitation does not apply to OEM Dell branded cards.

Information about servicing and troubleshooting issues in your Dell PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers' hardware and System Management tools

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

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

Understand and troubleshoot PowerEdge hard disk drives, RAID, PowerEdge RAID Controller, and other storage hardware such as cables, backplane, so forth.

Dell PowerEdge servers do not support operating system installation, or boot from direct CPU‑attached NVMe SSD drives if the metadata format size is not set to 0.

Explore various RAID levels - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 - implemented in Dell PowerEdge servers. Learn about their configurations, benefits, and how they impact data redundancy and performance.