PowerEdge R7715

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

This article details the most recent firmware version for Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 10 (iDRAC10), designed for Dell PowerEdge servers from the 17th generation onwards.

This article provides information about Intermittent High Fan Speeds on Dell 17G PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA ConnectX-6 OCP Cards installed.

This KB is to provide information about Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the Dell 17th generation of PowerEdge servers. The 17th generation of PowerEdge servers is based on Intel® Xeon® 6500P/6700P (Granite Rapids SP) and AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processor (Turin).

Dell PowerEdge 17th Generation Servers: A rare issue exists with Delta power supplies (PSU) that causes a PSU mismatch.

New deployments of OpenManage Enterprise 4.4.0 are experiencing service failures after configuring the time zone for GMT +02:00 Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius. The issue is only seen on fresh deployment of OpenManage Enterprise (OME) 4.4.0 on Hyper-V. Deploying OpenManage Enterprise (OME) on other hypervisors is not impacted.

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

Dell PowerEdge 17G servers that shipped before March 24, 2025 will prompt for Liquid Cooling capability after updating iDRAC10 firmware.

Dell Enterprise NVMe solid state drives may be leveraged as a substitute for Dell Data Center NVMe solid state drives.

PowerEdge: Dell service support for end of industry production of 2.5" 15k RPM SAS hard drives

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

Dell Micron 9550 E3.S NVMe Drive Activity-Led light turns off for a few seconds.

Users attempting to exit Enhanced Pre-Boot System Assessment (ePSA) diagnostics may encounter a system stop upon selecting the Exit option.

Leveraging the 'Reboot Required' filter and selecting all items in this filtered view results in the 'make compliant' job applying all non-compliant firmware components. An unexpected reboot of the target is seen as components that do require a restart are deployed to the target. The issue is only seen if selecting all objects and using the 'Reboot Required' filter. All other filters work as designed.

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

CPUs can be perceived to be hot while server is idle.

NVIDIA L-series GPUs may fall offline during runtime operations when running vGPU Grid 17.2 drivers.

Performance drops after power supply unit (PSU) cable removal and does not recover upon reconnection, despite the A/B Grid Redundant policy being active in iDRAC10.

Racadm diagnostics "-m 2" switch returns express diagnostics results only.

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.

Inband updates to Open Server Manager (OSM) with .bin DUP results in a watchdog soft lockup error. Update is successful.

Dell Update Package (DUP) can randomly fail in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Ubuntu.

The Lifecycle Controller logs reports SPDM0001 and SPDM0003 warning messages after every iDRAC reset.

Observing system stop responding or Purple Screen Of Death (PSOD) during ESXi 8.0 U3 installation,

Seagate Summit SAS/SATA drives report medium errors or sense key 3/11 on PowerEdge and PowerVault systems due to a firmware issue causing weak writes to a drive sector.

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

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.

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

When a PS1010 or PS1030 NVMe SSD is installed, a PSOD may occur during production or gathering Operating System (OS) logs.

OpenManage Enterprise version 4.1 entitlements feature will no longer work after October 2024 due to the decommissioning of legacy OAUTH APIs. Also, the standalone Dell License Manager application is end-of-life.