We have a DELL PowerEdge T710 in our office and it is really really noisy, the fans sound like vacuum cleaners! The discussion is whether the server is malconfigured and can be made more silent or if the fans need to run at this speed and the server has to be moved to another room then.
Now I'm trying to figure out if the current speed of the fans is actually appropriate for the environment temperature and the current stress of the server.
The data:
- Dell Poweredge T710
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz
- Memory 36851.0 MB
- VMware ESXi, 5.5.0
- The fans running at:
- with ambient temperature of 32 Degrees C
- and a performanceload always under 25%
Is there a rule of thumbs about fan speeds? What do you think about my provided data? I actually think 4680 RPM is way to fast for a load of only under 25% and a temperature of only 32 Degrees C, but I'm new to this kind of issue and that's why I'm asking you, thanks for any advise on this! :)