
So it seems not a driver/module issue on my kernel version. Well, the server has only 2 fans mounted in the front panel. But these drivers don't seem to include thermal/fan sensors: they are mainly RAID and Ethernet drivers.Īnyway, running ipmitool sdr displays fan speed for 3 fans at 33%. I know that HP released drivers for RHEL/SLES and they are freely downloadable. The fans are still noisy when compared to Windows. I also took care to install lm_sensors, ipmitool and their related sensor packages. Today I have successfully installed and upgraded (via zypper dist-upgrade) openSUSE 13.1 to get the latest version of kernel and modules.


The first difference we noticed between Windows (another identical machine running it) and Linux is fan noise: it's been a common problem around the Internet for HP servers. Our OS choice runs between CentOS 6.5 and openSUSE 13.1, though the server is certified for RHEL/SLES. We bought an HP ProLiant D元20e Gen8 v2 server at office, to be used to run internal applications under Linux.
