DL360p Gen8 fans always at 94% and at a huge power cost

[y2keable]

Hi.

My DL360p (Gen8) has suddenly decided to run with it's fans at a really noisy and really power hungry 94%

It started 3 days ago and I havn't touched a thing. It's been running nice and quite with it's fans at around 19% to 22% (depending on server load) and without chainging anything, suddenly at 94%

I'm aware that this can be an issue when non-HP drives are being used and so because I'm not using HP drives, I tested this by powring down the server and removing all the drives. It booted up (into Proxmox from SD card) and Proxmox ran for 20 minutes without the fans ramping up. Of course, it's useless without the drives so I popped them all back in and sure enough, as soon as POST was over, 94% again.

If I reset ILO then the fans go back down to 20% but over 10-12 minutes, they slowly ramp back up to 94%

When things were fine and the fans were at around 20%, the sever used to draw around 120W of power. Now that the fans are at 94% the server is consuming 250W. More than double! It's going to be very costly unless I can solve this and I don't want to have to fork out for 8 HP drives.

Solutions/suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks

[TVVJ]

Hello,

Update the server's BIOS to the latest version and check if the issue is resolved. Also, update the server's iLO firmware to the latest version.

Regards,

[Croweb]

The problem is not the bios or firmware update as suggested.

You need HP (HPE) disks or some other that working. This has been present since the sixth generation of HP servers.

What type of drives do you need (SATA, SSD or SAS)?  I can help and recommend some disks that are not HP genuine and are proven to work..

Regards,

[Sunitha_Mod]

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