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c7000 - 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru

I cant get the BL460c Gen 8 to work with the 1GB Ethernet Pass-Thru non of the ports are mapped or lighting up.
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BladeCenter basics

Every manufacturer seems to have different standards for what ships with their hardware; mounting rails, cable arms, power cables etc. I've got used to that for standard rack-mounted gear, but now I've been asked to spec out an IBM BladeCenter…
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Dell Blade Server 'Voltage is outside of the allowable range'?

I have 16 Dell M610 blades running in an M1000E chassis, all has been fine since they were installed. However I have just been made aware of the following error messages in the DRAC on one of the blades. A bus fatal error was detected on a…
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Dell Blade server Networking fundamentals?

i'm planing to purchase Dell m1000e blade server, if i want to connect the server to a SAN server via Fibre Channel Blade Switch Modules should i install fiber channel host bus adapter (mezzanine card) to each server?
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Dell VRTX - slow cluster shared storage

I have a brand new Dell VRTX box set up as a Failover Cluster running HA Hyper-V virtual machines. This is my first time setting up clustering, and my first time with one of these boxes, so I'm sure I've missed something. The virtual machines are…
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HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure : Ilo : Python : get_asset_tag() Not working

I try to connect to a HP Blade Server (HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure ) using Python's HP-ILO module. obj=hpilo.Ilo('172.8.2.29', login='Administrator', password='', timeout=60, port=443, protocol=None, delayed=False) Created a HP-ILO…
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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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ESX DRS anti-affinity rule to blade enclosures

If I have an ESX 3.5U4 cluster of, let's say, 20 hosts split between two or more blade enclosures/racks is there any way of configuring DRS to never host two guests of the same class on blades in the same enclosure? It's easy to ensure they're not…
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BL460c G7 blade OS install

I have an HP c7000 enclosure with a BL460c G7 blade. I need to install Windows server OS on it. I have a problem with iLO, so it will not mount the ISO in the remote console. Tried using both Active-X and the Java console. In the Active-X console i…
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Moving a blade server to another C7000 enclosure

I need to move a Bl460c G7 blade to another C7000 enclosure. The server is attached to a D2700 SAS direct attached storage through a 6GB SAS Switches which are also inserted in old C7000. I need to know if the server's RAID controller, the SAS…
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Default username and password on a brand new Dell CMC Blade management chassis

We've just got a brand new Dell M1000e blade chassis ^.^ (Squee!). We've no idea what the username/login for the Dell CMC manager is. Anyone know? We've mountains of paper and docs from Dell, and haven't found the answer there yet.
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Blade server in a nutshell?

Can anyone give a real description of a blade server and what it's advantages are besides space? Are there any disadvantages? And also, do you think smaller companies (think around maybe 4-5 actual servers) should invest in them or stick with the…
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Automatic VM capacity planning

Situation: I've got a bunch of blades, all with same amount of memory and cores in each. Some have local storage, some do not and rely on the SAN. I've also got a ton of VMs that I need to build and drop on these blades. There are about 7 or 8…
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Default password for hp c7000 blade servers

Has anybody worked on hp c7000 blade servers before. I have just ordered them and brought them on network. I tried logging in from web browser but I do not have the default password to log in. User guide says default password is provided with the…
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HP Blade ILO not responding in chassis ILO

I have just started at a new company and I am inspecting their current server config. The HP 480c blades in a c7000 chassis aren't responding to ILO, although the chassis ILO is working fine. I have a feeling the last sysadmin configured the blades…
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