PowerEdge XR4000r

This article provides information about the LIC008 error seen when importing the IDRAC License.

This article provides information about CPU Machine Check errors and common causes and proper handling when errors are seen.

PowerEdge 17th Generation Servers with Delta Power Supplies may not show correctly in iDRAC UI and SEL logging after AC cycle.

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.

This article provides some checklist to prevent unnecessary components replacement on DC power supply implementation.

During Windows Server 2025 installation by iDRAC virtual media, a disk with size 0 B is displayed on the drive selection page.

This article explains how some Dell server platforms offer the optional security bezel with dust filter. The air filter bezel can be configured as Countdown Mode or Active Sensing Mode. After a certain period of lifetime, the IDRAC may report alert events and require the dust filter to be replaced.

NVIDIA has updated the signing certificate for its UEFI network driver from Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 to Microsoft UEFI CA 2023. PowerEdge 17G platforms already trust the CA 2023 certificate, but 15G/16G and earlier servers require a BIOS update released in December 2025. Systems without this updated certificate support may fail to initialize the NIC UEFI driver when Secure Boot is enabled.

Unsure about the procedure to update a specific component's firmware in a PowerEdge system? Learn how to in this specific article.

Dell Technologies advises against downgrading Hard Drive or SSD firmware, except in validated scenarios, due to unpredictable results and version reporting issues.

PowerEdge servers crash with PCIe fatal errors while updating Kioxia CM6 NVMe drive firmware.

OpenManage Enterprise integration for VMware vCenter may fail to Unmanage hosts with error "UNMANAGE_REMOVE_MEL_FAILURE"

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.

How to create Cluster Shared Volumes by manually calculating the necessary disk space value.

Dell solid state drive (SSD) fails after system reports low environment operating temperature.

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.

In some migration scenarios, the OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 target import operation may fail with an error 'Failed to decrypt backup archive' during migration. Use the following article to help in troubleshooting this scenario and various ways to address the failure.

When in a SNAPI enabled configuration, the Dell Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand NICs may display 0000:0000:0000:0000 as the virtual node GUID for the second partition.

PowerEdge Servers installed with Intel Ethernet 100G 2P E810-2C Adapter have only one port being enumerated under device settings.

Firmware upgrades to Broadcom network devices may fail with a "libpci.so: Cannot open" error when run from a Smart Bootable ISO image created with Dell Repository Manager 3.x.

If "Automatically restart" under System Failure is disabled inside Windows Server 2019 and 2022, a manual reboot is needed after a bug check or crash, but the system is rebooting automatically.

Increased fan spinning noise. PowerEdge 15G servers equipped with a Dell Intel X710 Open Compute Project (OCP3) Network card after upgrading the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) firmware to version 7.00.30.00

When creating a Power Control job from OpenManage Enterprise and the following wizard options are selected Power Options: Power Cycle and 'Shutdown OS First' box is checked results in the target host systems being ForceReset.

OpenManage Enterprises Make Compliance Firmware Baseline task may not update iDRAC when multiple components have been selected.

Network security scanners may report that iDRAC9 is using an outdated Angular JS Javascript library version.