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I've got to remove one of our PowerEdge M620 blade servers from our M1000e Chassis server to look at the hardware on the server, mainly the mezzanine card installed.

  • Will removing the blade server from the chassis remove the server from the resource pool I've created?
  • When I put the blade server back in the chassis, will XenServer act as if the server has just been shutdown the whole time?

I have yet to remove the servers from the chassis while they're members of the resource pool so I figured I'd reach to see if anybody has done this before, or something similar with other servers belonging to a resource pool.

jrd1989
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Answer: Yes, the pool will simply not see the server for a while.

You need to migrate all VMs off that pool member to others, and if you lack resources then some less-important ones need to be shut down to make room.

No need to remove server from pool or anything, just do a normal shutdown and eject the blade from the chassis once its off/off.

When you power it back on (ASSUMING none of the hardware has changed) then it will fire up, go into maintenance mode for a few minutes, and then rejoin the pool like normal and show up live in xencenter.

Criggie
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