jbeez
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I recently procured a Dell Poweredge R730xd to be a baremetal TrueNas scale host. I ran into some issues, and came up with some solutions, I hope this helps someone on here.
#1 issue... the fans! I've come to learn that Dell decided if you are running the HBA and not a raid controller, it doesn't know what the hell is going on with the drives so it just cranks the fans to 43% as soon as you put one disk in that front bay. How annoying.
There is a fix, it seems to be working great for me, I have modified it slightly from the original found here.
Since I run this script directly on my TrueNas install, it accesses ipmi directly and I don't need the remote username/password. You can find my copy here. I added a cronjob in the TrueNAS ui to run this every 5 minutes.
I don't have third party cards in my server, but there's another setting you may need that deals with that specifically. It's around if you search so I won't repeat how to do that.
#2 I couldn't get my remote console into iDrac working. This is just me not being familiar with the Dell iDrac configuration. Basically, in the iDrac config, goto the Virtual Console configuration, change Plug-in Type to HTML5. Smooth sailing.
#3 SataDom power. This is again, me not being familiar with the platform... Apparently the SataDom power is going to be tough to setup on these, unless you get the right SataDOMs. I sourced some innodisks from ebay that had TWO of them wired together into one "TBU" connector. It's smaller than a standard 4 pin motherboard molex. It took me 3 satadom purchases before finding these. The real issue here is sourcing this wire, if someone sold these wires, a lot of satadoms would be viable.
Hope this helps!
#1 issue... the fans! I've come to learn that Dell decided if you are running the HBA and not a raid controller, it doesn't know what the hell is going on with the drives so it just cranks the fans to 43% as soon as you put one disk in that front bay. How annoying.
There is a fix, it seems to be working great for me, I have modified it slightly from the original found here.
Since I run this script directly on my TrueNas install, it accesses ipmi directly and I don't need the remote username/password. You can find my copy here. I added a cronjob in the TrueNAS ui to run this every 5 minutes.
I don't have third party cards in my server, but there's another setting you may need that deals with that specifically. It's around if you search so I won't repeat how to do that.
#2 I couldn't get my remote console into iDrac working. This is just me not being familiar with the Dell iDrac configuration. Basically, in the iDrac config, goto the Virtual Console configuration, change Plug-in Type to HTML5. Smooth sailing.
#3 SataDom power. This is again, me not being familiar with the platform... Apparently the SataDom power is going to be tough to setup on these, unless you get the right SataDOMs. I sourced some innodisks from ebay that had TWO of them wired together into one "TBU" connector. It's smaller than a standard 4 pin motherboard molex. It took me 3 satadom purchases before finding these. The real issue here is sourcing this wire, if someone sold these wires, a lot of satadoms would be viable.
Hope this helps!
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