How to Quiet a Loud Dell Server Using the Dell OpenManage BMC Utility
I have been working on upgrading and building out my lab to support my videos. In the process of doing so, I purchased 2 Intel X520-DA2 10Gb Network cards for my Dell R720 and Dell R730 VMware hosts. These cards will connect my hosts to my storage network. Unfortunately, adding these cards to my hosts made the systems almost unbearable noise-wise. Both Dell's ramped their fans up, not to full speed, but much louder than normal. Enough where I was highly frustrated and debated why I even had servers in my office. Their normal noise output does not bother me, but full jet-engine, that's a different story.
Upon investigating, there is a solution. This should work with all 12th and 13Generation Dell Servers. I tested it on both my R720 and R730 with identical results. When adding in a third party card, such as a network card or graphics card, if it is not a Dell branded card, it will cause the fans to ramp.
In my case, I added an Intel X520-DA2 10Gb network card to each of my hosts. I could have bought a Dell branded card and avoided this, but I got a good price on the Intel cards.
Also, if you haven't checked out my brand new Instagram, @ach_sysadmin, please give it a follow. I have lots of pictures of my lab and hardware that I am working on. I will also post a writeup on this on my blog, achubbard.com
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