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3 Custom Cooling Fan Options for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 System Thermal Profile settings ................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Fan offset ............................................................................................................................................................ 6
2.2 Minimum Fan Speed (MFS) ............................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Combined Settings – Fan offset and MFS ......................................................................................................... 8
2.4 Maximum exhaust temperature limit................................................................................................................... 9
3 Customizing PCIe card cooling .................................................................................................................................. 11
4 Accessing thermal settings ......................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Custom Fan Speed Options using HII (BIOS-based iDRAC settings) ............................................................. 13
4.1.1 System Thermal Profile Settings ...................................................................................................................... 16
4.2 Custom Fan Speed Options using iDRAC WebGUI......................................................................................... 16
4.3 Custom fan speed options using RACADM ..................................................................................................... 19