-
R710-Fan-Control
A fork of R710-IPMI-TEMP from NoLooseEnds/Scripts, generalised to a fan control daemon for Dell Poweredge servers. Has reported to work on R710s, R520, R730. Allows more flexible control of the fan throttling vs the vanilla iDrac control which tends to ramp the fans up to full velocity the moment you add non-Dell hardware.
-
InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
If you are installing NVMe drives, you can't boot from them if they are installed via PCIe risers or adapters, except for Dell's "NVMe Enablement Kit" to use up to 4 U.2 drives. Installing it breaches the "Fresh Air" conditions of the iDRAC though, and the fans will idle around 40% minimum. You would have to override the automatic fan control via IPMI on every boot to have them idle lower. u/spacelama wrote a script for their R710, and I have some bug reports to get it to also work on my R730XD, you can find it here (and discussion here) if needed.