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HPrest 1.5 : ERROR: 'etag'

June 8, 2016, 8:42 am
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Hello guys,

I'm using HPrest 1.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I'm using the program 'hprest' to login to local server:

hprest > login
Discovering data from iLO.............Done
ERROR: 'etag'
hprest >

As you can see, it returns an 'etag' error.

Do you know what's going on here? In fact I want to check the local BIOS settings (and make some adjustment later if the parameters are not set correctly). I am able to do this remotely (i.e. using the hprest via iLO), but locally I cannot execute a single command without error.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

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Onboard Administrator continually reboots after firmware upgrade

June 8, 2016, 12:53 pm
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I have an old C3000 blade enclosure.  I am in the process of upgrading the firmware for the OA.  I am doing them in order.  Now I am stuck as the OA continually reboots since I upgraded.  Has anyone seen this before?  I am currently at 4.21.  I can push the reset button and upgrade with the next flash in line, but I am concerned that this won't stop.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

Jerry

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C7000 Running 465 G8 Blades need suggestions for DAS

June 23, 2016, 1:43 pm
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Have 2 x C7000 fully loaded with BL465 G8. C7000 has 571956-B21. Want to do DAS. Can I use the 571956-B21 or do I need a different interconnect? Also should my storage be a MSA 2040 or can I get away with using something like a D2600? 

 

Thank you 

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Internal Access from device bay NICs to OA/ILO Management Network

June 29, 2016, 8:30 am
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Hi,

I'd like to seperate the management traffic from the normal traffic on my c7000 enclosure using a virtualized firewall running on one of my blade servers. For that I need to connect one server nic to the OA/ILO management network. Is it possible to do this internal?

How can this be done? I can't find any uplink to the management network in the VC Ethernet configuration.

Thanks in advance

Florian

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c7000 eol?

June 30, 2016, 7:10 am
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Hi.  Is there a web site or document that has end-of-life'd product information?

Specifically, I'm wondering when my c7000 chassis will be EOL'd.  Part 403320-B21.

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Is throughput better on 10gb mezz connected to 1gb pass thru module ?

July 7, 2016, 9:27 am
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Hello,

I am new here, and definitely not an expert on HP blades/chassis/modules. Here is my situation...

A few months ago I was doing some benchmarking, backing up a 40TB database to a Data Domain. My assumption was that the server had 2x10gb, bonded interfaces (since that was the output from the ethtool command...this server OS is RH Linux). Throughput was acceptable, but not great. I then bonded the 4x1gb ports on the DD, and we cut the backup time in half. I did not realize that the server was a blade, and although it showed 2x10gb bonded nic, the data was going through a “1 gb module”.

Now I’m doing the same thing on another HP blade chassis (same DB, same hardware type). The DD has 2x10gb bonded nics. The blade server shows 2x1gb bonded interface, and is going through a 1gb module. So my question is: even though the module is 1gb, could the fact that a 10gb card on the blade provide better throughput? Maybe less overhead? While there could be other variables affecting throughput, I'm trying to see if this can explain the performance.

thanks

 

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Insufficent VMQ receive queues on 650FLB adapter using BL460c Gen9 for Windows 2012R2 Hyper-V VDI

July 8, 2016, 5:58 am
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Has anyone noticed that the 650FLB adapter really doesn't have very good VMQ support compared to older adapters? In my ITDev Lab, my older BL460C Gen8 blades using 554FLB NICs have plenty of queues - 29 per NIC (please forgive the formatting):

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-netadaptervmq

Name InterfaceDescription Enabled BaseVmqProcessor MaxProcessors NumberOfReceive
Queues
---- -------------------- ------- ---------------- ------------- ---------------
Migration_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#13 False 0:0 29
Cluster_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#16 False 0:0 29
Storage2_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#15 False 0:0 29
Storage1_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#14 False 0:0 29
VMNetworks_NIC2 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#12 True 0:0 29
VMNetworks_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#11 True 0:0 29
MGMT_NIC2 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 55...#9 True 0:0 29
MGMT_NIC1 HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 5...#10 True 0:0 29
VMNetworks_Team Microsoft Network Adapter Mult... True 0:0 58
MGMT_Team Microsoft Network Adapter Mu...#2 True 0:0 58

 

But the newer 650's have very little - 9 per NIC - not enough to support 75-100 VDI's:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-netadaptervmq

Name InterfaceDescription Enabled BaseVmqProcessor MaxProcessors NumberOfReceive
Queues
---- -------------------- ------- ---------------- ------------- ---------------
Storage 2 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 65...#6 False 0:22 8 9
Storage 1 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 65...#5 False 0:2 8 9
Migration 2 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 65...#4 False 1:18 1 9
Migration 1 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 65...#3 False 0:18 1 9
Management 2 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 65...#2 True 0:0 4 9
Management 1 HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 650F... True 0:0 4 9
LogicalSwitch01 Microsoft Network Adapter Mult... True 0:0 18

 So I want to use these as Hyper-V hosts for VDI (XenDesktop), and hope to get 60 or 70 VMs per host. But with these 650FLB adapters, when I use our typical template of 2 NICs for VM traffic, I won't have nearlhy enough VMQs.

Am I missing something here? Shouldn't newer hardware have more, or at least the same? The only workaround I can think of is adding every NIC to a single virtual switch and having the storage, migration, and bandwidth, carved out using port profiles in the virtual switch.

Am I missing something? Did we order the wrong adapter? I'm using the latest firmware (10.7.110.34) and driver (10.7.110.16) I can find. We ordered a hundred blades or so - I'd hate to be stuck with this as it is.

Thanks,

Bruce

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ESX on c7000, BL460c blade servers, 6G SAS switches, D6000 disk enclosure.

July 12, 2016, 7:33 pm
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Does anyone have a working ESXi 5.5 farm in an HP c7000 enclosure using an attached D6000 storage array?

If so, can you please share the configuration? 

I’m looking for a working design that fits the following environment, for use with ESXi 5.5.  It exists in an HPE client’s environment.

The available hardware is:

  • 1 x c7000, with:
    • 4 x HP VC FlexFabric 10Gb/24 port modules.
    • 2 x HP 6Gb SAS BL Switches, with Multi-initiator enabled.
  • 4 x BL460c Gen8 with:
    • 2 x E5-2660 Intel CPUs.
    • 256 GB memory.
    • 2 x 300 GB RAID 1 drives.
    • FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554FLB adapter.
    • Mezz 1: FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 554M adapter.
    • Mezz 2: Smart Array P721m/2G storage controller.
  • 1 x D6000 with:
    • 70 x 2 TB SAS drives, with 31 unused drives each drawer.

 

 

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C7000 - Adding G9 blades to G7s already in enclosure

July 20, 2016, 7:31 am
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Hi. I am new in this blade system management. I hope you can help.

We already have G7's in the existing enclosure and wanted to add G9's. Is there any pre-requisiste that we need to do like enclosure firmware upgrade or virtual connect firmware upgrade before we can use the G9?

Thanks.

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Procedure to power down, move and power up HP BL460c and D2220sb blades to new c7000 chassis

July 21, 2016, 1:42 pm
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I need to move a Bl460c Gen9 Server Blade with its partnered D2220sb Storage Blade from slots/bays 1 and 2 from the lab C7000 chassis to another C7000 chassis located in the live network into slots/bays 13 and 14.

Assuming this can be done without any issues, what would be the correct procedure/order for shutting down and moving the blades:

  1. Perform a graceful shutdown of the OS and poweroff of the blade server. (At this stage the Onboard Administrator shows the BL460c server blade as OFF (amber), but the D2220sb Storage Blade is still ON (green). Is there a way to poweroff the D2220sb?
  2. Physically remove the D2220sb storage blade from the existing c7000 chassis
  3. Physically remove the BL460c Gen9 server blade from the existing c7000 chassis
  4. Physically install the D2220sb storage blade into the new c7000 chassis
  5. Physically install the BL460c Gen9 server blade into the new c7000 chassis
  6. The BL460c and D2220sb blades will be partnered and up and running.
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HP C7000 enclosure

July 25, 2016, 8:59 am
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Hi All,

 

We have 4 HP c7000 enclosure managed via VCEM.We are planning firmware upgrade of all components using HP SPP 2016.04.0 (April 2016) image.However can anyone help me with following queries

Present Firmware Versions

OA -3.70 VC-3.71,VCEM-7.2

1.Which version do we need to upgrade VCEM to and what are the upgrade steps.

2.Can we directly go to VC versiob 4.45 from 3.71 using HP SPP 2016.04.0.

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C7000 fans question

August 1, 2016, 4:47 pm
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I just wanted to ping the community for some input on this if possible.  We received our c7000 a couple weeks ago along with 2 blades.  I've gone through the intial setup of the chassis, blades and interconnects and everything went pretty smooth.  One thing I noticed however is that with the 2 blades up and running, all 10 fans in the c7000 are operating at 89% and of course is pretty loud.  Regardless of what settings are set on the OA for power and thermal the fans remain at that speed.  Its only when I remove both OA modules -OR- power off both blade servers that the fans slow down to 29%.  All fans at 89% with only 2 idle blades seemed wrong so I opened a ticket with support....which brings me here because support seemed a little unsure at first if this was normal or problematic behaviour.  I worked over the phone with them for a few days on/off with this issue ...trying new settings, reseating OAs, upgrading AND downgrading firmware..then upgrading again to 4.5....all kinds of stuff.  They finally suggested we replace the primary OA and Sleeve and see if that changes anything.  

Today a technician showed up with a new sleeve that we he determined was defective.  He also had with him the incorrect OA device....so no changes were made today...he will return tomorrow with new parts to try again.  The field tech seemed to indicate 89% might be normal for 2 blades based on what he's seen but wasn't 100% sure...I'm just not buying that yet and can't seem to get a firm yes or no on this question.  My gut says there's something very overkill about 2 idle blades running in a chassis with all 10 fans blasting away at 89%.   Does anyone know for certain if this is an issue or normal behavior?  

 

Thanks,

Joe    

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set rack name command info

August 2, 2016, 9:17 am
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I am just trying to set the rack name on our c7000's.  When I run the set rack name command if changes the rack name on all of the enclosures in datacenter.  I this the way this is designed or is this a configuration issue?

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Which Kind of Switch?

August 10, 2016, 1:13 am
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Hi there,

we have got a C300 with 3x BL460c with one CPU each and we need to upgrade the network to 10GB.

Now we have got a FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 55AM Adapter (647590-B21) for each Server.
But the BladeSwitch doesn't work

At Bay 1 & 2 is a 10GB Ethernet Blade Switch (445860-B21).

Why doesn't work it? Wich Kind of Switch i should use?

Also we have got a BLc 1:10Gb Enet Switch (438031-B21)

Thank you.

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HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 650FLB Adapter support NPIV or NOT

August 10, 2016, 8:45 pm
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Hi,

We have a chassis C7000 with 02 Virtual Connect 20/40 F8, blade server is 460c gen9 using flexlom 650FBL adapter. We already configured all thing work fine. However, now we want to assign virtual FC wwwp for some virtual machines to directly access LUN from SAN storage. We had first mapped for a virtual machine a RDM lun, then assigned virtual wwwp for it, next poweron it and esx server dump to purple screen and say something "tried to re-accquired lock vport_lock". We also tried to install hyperv intead of vmware on physical blade, then tried to create virual fibre channel but no luck, it say device or driver not support virtual fibre channel too.

So anyone can help me to confirm that we can do NPIV on 650FLB Adapter on balde 460c gen9? in this scenario it is like NPIV over NPIV because we used fc uplink ports from virtual connect to san switch for NPIV wwwp of physical blade server. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

BinhVQ

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Mezzaine Doesn't Show

August 10, 2016, 10:04 pm
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OA and VC fimware

August 11, 2016, 9:53 pm
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Hi everyone, 

I am using C7000 enclosure.I want to upgrade the firmware of OA and VC, on couple of enclosure we are using OA 4.11 and VC 4.1 version.

Can anyone provide me or tell me what new features will i get after upgrading the firmware.

 

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ESL G3 management console password reset

August 20, 2016, 9:21 am
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Hi everybody

I forgot username/password of ESL G3 management console. how can I reset it?

best regards

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C7000 Expansion

August 22, 2016, 8:44 pm
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Hello,

 

Question related to adding a new chassis to existing setup ! 

Existing Infra :> 2* c7000 Chassis

 First Chassis:

5* BL680C G5, 1* BL460C G8, 2* BL460c G6

 4* HP 4GB FC Passthrough module (Module 5,6,7,8)

4* Cisco Switch 3020 ( Module 1, 2 )

Output = 4*1GB

 

Second Chassis

5* BL680C G5, 1* BL460C G8, 2* BL460c G6

 4* HP 4GB FC Passthrough module (Module 5,6,7,8)

4* Cisco Switch 3020 ( Module 1, 2 )

Output = 4*1GB

 

Now we need to expand this by adding another chassis – C7000, with Flex10/10D modules or Flex Fabrics.  As I understand, Flex10 support SFP, whereas the older 3020 do not support it.  So what is the solution to add this new chassis to older Infra ? Which cable to order, which connection etc ? (we are thinking about Active Active 10GB uplinks )  Attaching the relevant quote I got with 1GB transceivers. 

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Where can I get C7000 mib file to monitor snmp trap ?

September 2, 2016, 3:03 am
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Dear Expert

Where can I download the mib file?

Please help me to monitor C7000.

 

 

 

BR,

Jacky

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