Recently i did bought an HP ProLiant DL180 G6
Everything is OK except fan noise , it's too loud. I did some research but found nothing useful , I just wanted to know if there is anything I can do about it?
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The DLxxx series are rack servers: meant to be reliable, not quiet. Make sure everything is installed, HP SUM (The 9.30 DVD is the latest as of writing this) should help with this, and that all the fans are working correctly. If that's all good, put it in the rack and close the door. | ||||
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Have you got the HP agents loaded for whatever the OS is? I think the HP agents control how the fans run, as well as the rest of the hardware. You may also want to check and make sure all of the fans are working properly. In reference to Chris' comment the noise level is relative to what you're used to. They are rack mount servers so what you're hearing may just be the "normal" operating volume. | |||
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Is it higher than 38 dBA LpAm when operating? If not then it's within specs, if it is then call HP to fix. | |||
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There are no specific HP Management agents for the DL180 G6 in terms of health agents. The fan speed may be stuck at its current rate. You can run a firmware update DVD to see if there's any difference upon updating the BIOS and/or the Lights-Out BMC. Otherwise, that's it for that model. The HP ProLiant 1xx-series do not have the same level of thermal/cooling/management features as the 3xx-series. | |||
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I'm setting up a pair of DL180 G6 right now. Worth to be mentionned: one of them initially (on the first boot) seemed much quieter, then the BMC/LO100 component somehow updated itself, showing an advancement percentage (like it was being flashed) and citing hardware changes or something as the reason for this. And thereafter, it was just as noisy as the other one. | |||
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This thread has been running in various forms since before HP migrated their forums. The BMC updating its self happens in response to the PCIe riser card being inserted or not, and if it's populated. The DL180 G6 is nearly silent with the riser removed, with the fans dropping to around 2-3000 rpm. With a card installed the ILO update causes them to run nearer 5-12k and sound like a hurricane. This issue has been reported to HP by numerious people but we have all recieved a stock response. Namely "your issue has been escallated to engineering." followed by "as it is not possible to measure the temperature of a 3rd party card installed on the pcie riser, this behaviour is by design." An identical issue has been fixed for the ML350 G6 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884315&swItem=MTX-d22d3ec5c39647bf872f34a076&prodNameId=3884316&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=3 Please make yourselves known to HP support. Hope this helps. | |||
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