PowerEdge XE9680L

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

This page explains the difference between drivers and firmware and how to update them on Dell PowerEdge Servers using different methods.

This article explains how to use iDRAC Direct to manage your PowerEdge server.

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.

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.

Learn how to create a bootable USB with Rufus to update Dell PowerEdge servers. Follow the step-by-step instructions to prepare and create a bootable USB media.

This article explains how to create a Virtual Disk using the System Settings menu.

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.

To ensure optimal performance and stability for your Dell system, be aware of the latest updates available for the drivers and firmware. There are several systems to do this as explained in the article below.

This article provides links to download Dell trial 30 and 90-day evaluation license collection including iDRAC Enterprise, iDRAC Datacenter, Chassis Management Consoles (CMC) Enterprise, OpenManage Enterprise, and OpenManage Integration.

Correctable and uncorrectable memory errors on PowerEdge Server with DDR4 and changes to troubleshooting steps

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.

This article provides information about how to troubleshoot PCIe devices that are not being detected correctly.

Hardware Diagnostics are embedded tools installed in the pre-OPERATING SYSTEM of your server to check hardware is working as designed.

This article describes how to gather the necessary log files to troubleshoot a vSphere Tanzu issue.

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.

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.

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

This article provides a brief introduction to the Intel® VROC and describes how to configure it on Dell PowerEdge servers.

This article provides information about how to obtain iDRAC licenses from MyAccount (Formerly Dell Digital Locker).

Fan speed oscillates from 8% to 100% in 15G and 16G PowerEdge systems after updating iDRAC to version 7.20.10.05.

DSA-2020-145: Dell EMC Server Platform Security Advisory for the 2020.1 Intel Platform Updates (June 2020) - CVE-2020-0528, CVE-2020-0529, CVE-2020-0545

This article explains the behavior of "Power Button = Disable" in BIOS of 12G and later.

The BIOS setting changes may not appear in iDRAC if configured using the F11 Boot Manager on Dell PowerEdge 16G and 17G platforms.

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.

Guidance on how to use the iDRAC Direct feature on the PowerEdge XE9780 system.

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.

Downstream Port Containment event may show up in the lifecycle log and kernel logs when hot removing NVMe drives from a PowerEdge XE9780.

Using iDRAC tools to interact with iDRAC when it is not reachable using Web Browser. It may happen that after an iDRAC firmware upgrade, the iDRAC is not reachable but GuestOS is reachable. In that case, use iDRAC tools to troubleshoot the issue and bring it back online.