Dell servers and storage

This page contains information about DellEMC servers and storage deployed in our cluster:

• Dell BIOS settings common to servers
• Dell iDRAC
• Dell System Update (DSU) and racadm
• Dell R650 server
• Dell R640 server
• Dell C6420 server
• Dell PowerEdge C8220 Intel Ivy Bridge compute nodes
• Dell ME484 JBOD storage

DellEMC firmware and software download pages:

• R760

• R760xd2

• R650

• R750

• R7525

• R640

• R740xd2

• C6420

• C6400

Dell OpenManage

Download the OpenManage software ISO image from the server model’s download page in the Systems Management download category.

Download the Dell EMC OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (Linux) DTK ISO file and mount it on /mnt.

Monitoring CPU and power

The turbostat command reports processor topology, frequency, idle power-state statistics, temperature and power on X86 processors. Examples of usage are:

turbostat --Summary --quiet
turbostat --show CoreTmp,PkgTmp,PkgWatt,Bzy_MHz