How To Make Your Dell R710 Quiet using Proxmox & IPMI
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In Proxmox, we will create a cron job that will run a script to check the current servers ambient temperature and set the fan speeds accordingly.
The full write up is available at:
jono-moss.gith...
The script can be found on my Github at:
github.com/Jon...
after a ton of problems, turns out:
you cant connect from the same nic if youre using a shared nic (apparently?)
you need login permissions on the user for a lot of things
im sure i wouldve noticed the second part if i hadnt skimmed the video though 😭
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the video. I was trying to find a solution for my T630 and couldn't find something useful with Google at first. So, it really helped me. Your script worked for my T630, so I modified it to have different levels of fan speeds. Also I figured out that there is another unsupported workaround: disabling the default fan behavior. I've added all information to one Github page ( still private repo as I am ironing out some design issues of the readme ) so maybe more people can benefit of it. Btw. your link to the webpage seems to not be working anymore. Was your script reliable in the past months? I'm thinking about adding user reports to my written guide whether the script and commands seemed to be working for their specific models and configuration. I haven't tested yet my setup excessively, as I am still waiting for some drive caddy's.
Hi @coolricksanchez, that is awesome I'm glad it guided you. I'm very excited to see your final script, what you are doing is very cool and definitely will be a huge contribution to others.
Yeah my script still works perfect for me. I have had no issues at all with it. It has honestly been a set and forget script.
Thank you for the heads up about the link not working any more, I have updated it to the correct link now. I do appreciate that.
Thank you, very informative, well organized, and still relevant for a r730
that is very interesting, but is it also intended for new Dell servers or only for old servers? I have a Dell poweredge R450
Exactly what I was looking for. You made my day 🤞
Nice, I'm glad it helped you.
@mandeepmails I saw you asked about getting the R70 update ISO, but for some odd reason I cant find that comment any more. I do see that forum.allenscloud.com is not online anymore which is a shame. I have however uploaded the ISO to archive.org/details/r-710-bootable
So hopefully that helps you.
@@jonomossthanks Jon. Literally I tried a lot on my own but couldn’t reach anywhere. Yeah UA-cam was acting weird, I felt like I
I’m on targeted to some canary release 😂rofl
confirming everything works great. for the first time i can feel peace with the fans controlled. you're a life saver. before finding this channel i saw people are ordering noctua fans, playing with wires, compaining about connectors and now i'm just laughing out loud that i didn't follow that route. i used ubuntu mate, my bios and everydriver is updated with your help. you're a star ⭐
Thank you very much for the kind words, and I am extremely happy that you got it all working in the end, 😂 I agree that it is definitely a better method then having to worry about buying Noctua fans and trying to get them to fit correctly.
Give this man a raise! .Btw, If you have a problem with installing impitool just use the command "apt install ipmitool"
It also works for newer servers, the only different step is in idrac setup
Thank you for the kind words, I'm really glad it helped.
Good stuff!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
can this be used for dell r720 server ?
Hi, sorry unfortunately I don't have a Dell R720 to test it on, so I don't really know. the Dell R720 uses iDRAC7 so it is possible that the values you get from IPMI could be different. I would recommend breaking the script down and see if you get the correct values back from each step. So for example run:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H -U -P -y sdr type temperature
if you get an "Ambient Temp" value in the table that is returned from the above command.
Then I would say that the script will also work on the R720.
But that is what my advice would be, test the script line my line and if all the commands work, then you can use the entire script. But hopefully you come right with it.
I want to know how you got idrac to work on a web browser! It's a real struggle with everyone running idrac6.
Hi @philiparmstrong3286 , So iDRAC 6 web UI still works fine in the web browser,
but I am assuming you are talking about the "Virtual Console" function that requires old java run times to work.
For that I have used this docker image in the past:
github.com/DomiStyle/docker-idrac6
It works very well if you want to use the "Virtual Console" functionality.
I hope I understood your question properly and that this helped.
If you need me to create a video on how to create and use the docker image, you can let me know.
@@jonomoss thank you! I think what really matters is ipmi, idrac enterprise and actually any machine can control it using this way! I do not think why itr won't help me on T630.... the only thing is, my idrac wont allow me speeds below 10% in the web interface. can you confirm what is your effective fan speed range in idrac settings? can you set a value below10%?
You can use this for R-Tx20 + R-Tx30 series but with 40/50/60 series ipmi will not work longer. They have shut down this option in IDrac