PowerEdge R730 Manual Fan Control iPMI Crash Course

Thanks to ‪@FunkoKoning‬ for his inquiry about manual fan control for the Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd. Brother man I hope you find this useful!
Huge shout out to ‪@Warning56kb‬ and his video that originally turned me onto this method of fan control as I learned to use my R730xd!
SOURCE: • Dell & HP Server Manua...
COMMANDS:
Dell IPMI Tool Download:
www.dell.com/s...
Install IPMI Tool to C:\ipmitool
Log into iDRAC web interface and under Network enable IPMI.
In Win search bar type "cmd" and right click Command Prompt and 'Run as Administrator'.
Type: cd\
Type: cd ipmitool
You're now ready to start giving commands...
Replace 'ipaddress' with the IP address of your Dell iDRAC or HPE iLO. Replace 'username' and 'password' with your iDRAC or iLO login credentials. It's convenient to have the iDRAC or iLO web interface displaying the fan speeds to verify its actions as you submit the commands. The low refresh rate makes the reported speeds have a slight delay.
Executed from Command Prompt=
Enable Manual Fan Control=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00
Disable Manual Fan Control=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x01
3rd Party PCIe Response State (Fast fan speed when no therm sensors on PCIe card)=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0xce 0x01 0x16 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00
Result1= ... 00 00 00 (Enabled)
Result2= ... 01 00 00 (Disabled)
Enable 3rd Party PCIe Response=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0xce 0x00 0x16 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Disable 3rd Party PCIe Response=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0xce 0x00 0x16 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00
Set All Fans (0xff) to % (??) Speed (in Hexadecimal)=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x19
Set All Fans (0xff) to 50% (0x32)=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x32
Percentages to Hexadecimal & Fan Speed
10% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0xA
15% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0xF
20% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x14
25% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x19
30% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x1E
35% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x23
40% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x28
45% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x2D
50% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x32
55% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x37
60% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x3C
65% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x41
70% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x46
75% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x4B
80% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x50
85% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x55
90% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x5A
95% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x5F
100% = ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x64
Report Temperatures
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password sdr type temperature
Report Only Temp, Volt & Fan Sensors=
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password sdr elist full
Report Power Supply Output
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password sdr type ‘Power Supply’
Displays Energy Consumption
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password delloem powermonitor

[@FunkoKoning]

Thank you so much for making this video brother. Amazing video and very informative. I did play around a while with the settings you mentioned in the video and it works great. I also found some additional settings for people who want even lower percentages on the fans. Like if you want to set it to 1% you cab do that with the command below: ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.XX -U username -P password 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x1 This is what i have set it to at the moment and you can barely hear the server running. Confirmed by the wife haha. Again thank you so much for making this video and hope to see more good stuff from you in the future!

[@alphaobeisance3594]

I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate comments like these. I'm at a pretty discouraging place in my homelab setup but I aint to pull through eventually. It just makes for a really dry time in regards to content. It's my pleasure to forward the information I'd discovered many moons ago. I forgot to mention in the video that I actually have a Windows VM set up on the server itself specifically for this purpose! So if you're like me and can't stand the idea of baking windows into your hardware, this is a solid alternative option for those with Virtualization options! I'm always down to make new content, I just really don't know what I have to offer at this point sadly. I can share lots of my struggles, but I'm not sure anyone would find that very productive lol. I'm really, really struggling with Networking right now. This is only amplified 100x in the fact that was just gifted a 48 port switch , and a legit server rack! (Goodbye 2x4s!) but with this comes a need to completely reconfigure not only my network but get both Poweredge nodes online. So much homework. If the progress of this venture is something people would like to see, let me know in the comments section. I can't guarantee answers, but maybe sharing my learning experience may provide an opportunity for learning from viewers like you, or even better, show people what to avoid lol! Thanks again for the love and support. It sincerely means a lot!

[@alphaobeisance3594]

P.S. Keep an eye on your temps while you play with this. No doubt you already know this, but I just wanted to cover my bases. Would hate to hear of a brother mans new home lab melting xP. I'm excited for you!

[@FunkoKoning]

@@alphaobeisance3594 Yeah i know the feeling i have the same thing with my own channel. I think that is a thing most people struggle with. I think you should share your struggles with the problem being solved at the end, as people usually search on youtube for solutions for their problems. I have learned ALLOT the last couple of days but it is the first time for me playing with linux and proxmox. So like right now i am really struggling with mounting my movie drive to my lxc container. I have a drive where all my movies are and a container where a movie manager container is on. So i want that container to see all the stuff that is on that drive but i cannot get it to work yet. I think problems like these could really help people if they are just starting with their homelab and i think there is allot of content from which you can make video`s. And perhaps learn in the process. hopefully this inspires you a bit to keep on going!

[@FunkoKoning]

@@alphaobeisance3594 Yeah thanks! i was thinking the same thing. For now i see temps of 40 degrees so i think that is great. I also just bought a Nvidia GRID K2 video card to transcode on my plex server. Hopefully it works out well haha

[@alphaobeisance3594]

@@FunkoKoning Feel free to holler if you have any questions. If I don't know, we'll find out together lol!

[@bulcub]

thanks bro!

[@alphaobeisance3594]

@@bulcub my pleasure!

[@jernst93]

What’s up brother man. I gotta catch up on your videos and start learning some shit soon when I have some free time. Been a while, hope you’re doing well. -Dyna Jay 🤘🏻

[@alphaobeisance3594]

MLLH&R brother man! Hope life is treating you well. My content will be here when you need it! Holler if you have any questions!

[@brantwinter]

Did this work with the latest BIOS / iDRAC firmware that Dell supplied for the R730

[@alphaobeisance3594]

@@brantwinter good question. I'm unaware. I did this last fall and as of that time my rig was running the latest bios. If they've released an update they may have finally patched support.