Dell R730xd Server set up raid drives from iDrac8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a PERC H730P mini Raid Controller with 2GB of cache.

 I have 4x  3.5" 4 TiB drives and 2x 2.5" 1TiB Drives.

My plan is to set up a raid 1 for the 2x 2.5" drives and a raid 6 for the 4x 3.5" drives.

 

Dell r730xd slow down fan speed

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a PERC H730P mini Raid Controller with 2GB of cache.  I am using it for a home lab and every time I reboot the machine the fans go all out and its very loud.  After the system starts up it quiets down and the fans go at a more reasonable speed.

 

Uploading ssh pub key to iDrac8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 and I want to add my ssh pub key to the root user so I don’t have to keep entering my password when logging in.

 

Adding Second Raid 5 Drive from iDrac 8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a PERC H730P mini Raid Controller with 2GB of
cache.

 

I have a raid 5 already with 4 disk running.  I have 3 more disks I want to turn into a second raid 5 drive that can then be mounted in the Ubuntu 26.04 running on the first raid.  I want to see how this is done from the iDrac8 web page.

 

Uploading ISO over 2GB to iDrac8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a 16GB vFlash.

Its relatively easy to upload an iso to it from the iDrac HTML5 web interface… As long as its under 2GB in size.

 

There is a way to upload an ISO that is over 2GB, but you have to jump through some hoops.