Questions tagged [blade-chassis]
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Probability of Blade Chassis Failure
In my organisation we are thinking about buying blade servers - instead of rack servers. Of course technology vendors also make them sound very nice. A concern, that I read very often in different forums, is, that there is a theoretical possibility…
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How do I convince Dell blades to PXE Boot
Scenario:
Brand new Dell M610 blades.
Connected to the network with a 10GE uplink into a Dell PowerConnect M6220 blade switch.
DHCP server evidently working, as everything else boots / gets addresses fine.
TFTP server working fine.
Can't seem to get…
Tom O'Connor
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Using a 1G Ethernet Pass-Thru with BL460C G7 blade?
I've installed a new G7 BL460C into my HP BladeSystem C7000 enclosure. I have not had a G7 before. In the enclosure I have two 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru interconnect modules (406740-B21). I am able to assign ports on the pass-thru modules to the G7…
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HP C7000 alarms from blades via Onboard Administrator
HP Bladesystem (C7000) Onboard Administrator can report enclosure related hardware issues as SNMP traps. So there are alarms from PSUs, FANs etc.
This does not work with blade's hardware (like faulty server blade disks), however OA is aware of such…
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Probability of Blade Chassis Failure, Redundancy
Suppose I have a blade server HP C7000, with three blades.
Q1. Is there any disaster recovery technique that provides redundancy between blades? If any one blade goes down the second should come up with the same configuration.
Q2. Is it possible to…
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Connection speed between blades
a local company sponsored our university a bladecenter (HP c7000) equipped with 16 HP c460 blades. Our main issue is, that we don't know at which network speed the blades talk to each other.
Our goal is:
building a private cloud with opennebula on…
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Moving HP BL460c and partnered D2220sb blades to new c7000 slots
I need to move a Bl460c Gen9 Server Blade with its partnered D2220sb Storage Blade (with RHEL OS and Apps already installed) from slots/bays 1 and 2 from the lab C7000 chassis to ANOTHER C7000 chassis located in the live network into different…
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Can HP blade server/any server units be run as stand alone workstation?
I am new to the Server Hardware world?
My question is very basic and might be absurd. Since I haven't had the opportunity to work on blades yet.
Can HP blade server units/any other blade server units be run as stand alone workstation?
for reference…
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Unable to close the LCD Display Panel on an HP C3000 blade chassis
The LCD display panel at one of our HP C3000 blade chassis is stuck and I am unable to close it. See the image below. I am somewhat reluctant to push harder, as I am afraid that I might do additional damage to the chassis. Does anyone had a similar…
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Rackmounting a tower chassis HP BLc3000 Blade System
Ok, so we have a HP BLc3000 that we are bringing in from a remote office to our central datacentre, its currently in its purchased tower / pedestal configuration (with the wheels and all that)
Is it possible to rackmount (Looks like there are 2…
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What are the considerations which decide the server Dimensions in Rack Servers?
In a DataCenter, say a rack is 42U high. Some rack servers in that rack can be full-width and 1U high, while some servers can be half-width and 2U high. Yet others can be half-width, 1U, but double depth.
In all cases, the "volume" or "capacity" of…
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bladesystem c7000 power supply error
I have a hp blade system c7000 with six power supply connected. it turns on with critical error in power supply #1,2,5 and I can't see the power supply 1,4,6 in onboard administrator interface. I updated firmware to resolve the problem but I saw the…
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Retrieving blade/chassis (HP C7k) information from within the host through IPMI
On an HP C7000 blade enclosure with standard DL385's with up to date ILO2 (2.29); local (and remote) IPMI works splendidly for getting the usual temperatures, mac addresses, access to the console; boot options, power and so on.
However I'd like to…
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Configure/Install the New Blade HP Proliant BL685c G7 in Blade server C7000 G7 server
I have a problem Installing the Blade HP Proliant BL685c G7 into the Blade server C7000 encloser G7. i want to install Windows server 2012 R2 on the new Blade but when i boot from the Bootable USB i get the ERROR, as Mentioned Below This is the…
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HP c3000 chassis to HP c7000 chassis swap
All, we currently have an HP c3000 chassis with 8 blade servers, two GbE2c Layer2/3 Ethernet Interconnects and two 3gb SAS Switch Interconnects. The Ethernet interconnects are our uplinks/trunks to the network with 4 1gb links on each interconnect.…
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