Manage Dell PowerEdge Fan Noise

The original post that I used as a reference to do this on my bunch of R620 and R720xd appears to be missing from search now. Regardless, I'm throwing up a list of options here with the same idea, even a ChatGPT generated option for those wanting to play around with the results.

This first link mentions the original reference I used (that domain is now down and for sale):

Reduce the fan noise of the Dell R720XD (plus other 12th gen servers) with IPMI – Spencer’s Blog

Spencer's BlogSpencer LeB

Here are a few more links that should work for the R620 and R720/R720xd:

GitHub - yinheli/ipmi-fan-control: A tool to control the fan speed by monitoring the temperature of CPU via IPMI.

A tool to control the fan speed by monitoring the temperature of CPU via IPMI. - GitHub - yinheli/ipmi-fan-control: A tool to control the fan speed by monitoring the temperature of CPU via IPMI.

GitHubyinheli

Silence Your Dell PowerEdge Server — SPX Labs

Updated for 2020! Quiet down that noisy Dell PowerEdge server using IPMI! We also can now use impi in Unraid through a Docker Container called Nerdpack. Let’s check this out!

SPX LabsStefano Partida

How To Quiet Down a Dell PowerEdge R620 & R720 - The Dan Healy

Chief Systems Engineer

The Dan Healydan

Quieting an R720xd with ipmitool

I mentioned a bit in this post about my R720XD being louder in comparison to my other servers. This has proven to continue, with the fans spinning up easily as high as 60%. With the fans having a peak capacity, even 40% fan speed is LOUD. Luckily, there’s an easy

Tanner's TechTanner Cude

In case those partially fail for your R710 and other Dell 11th Generation servers, try:

Controlling Fan Speeds on a Dell R710 - Tom Austin

How to manually control fan speeds on a Dell R710

Tom Austintom

And here's that ChatGPT generated one, ymmv: