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Configuring HP “Multifunction” NIC for iSCSI SAN
I am about to implement a SAN here using a HP P2000; the SAN itself is on-order (ETA a couple of weeks) so in the meantime I'm getting the rest of the equipment up and running.
The SAN has ...
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Access HP Proliant DL385 BIOS [closed]
How do I access the BIOS of a HP ProLiant DL385 server?
It doesn't have any hard drives, just power, monitor & keyboard connected. The keyboard is a PS/2 Microsoft Media keyboard with an ...
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hp sb40c and hp bl460c storage
I have an HP ProLiant BL460c partnered with an HP SB40c blade server. The storage controller for the BL460c is HP Smart Array E200 while the SB40c's controller is P400. In my configuration, the ...
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Solaris 11 hangs randomly: need help to figure out the reason
I've got Solaris 11 (+latest SRU) running on an HP DL385 G7 (attached to P2000 storage w. 30 disks; they are registered as separate RAID0 drives, but I'm using ZFS' raidz1), which is our file server. ...
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HP Proliant ML115 G5 - Boot order lost after reboot
I have one HP Proliant ML 115 G5 (AMD) with the latest BIOS (07-06-2009) and recently I've installed an USB disk.
This is a common problem on old Proliant servers.
When you plug the USB disk, BIOS ...
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CentOS 6 doing lots more IO than CentOS 5
I'm benchmarking an application on two identical servers, one is Centos 5.8 and the other is Centos 6.2. My application is running much slower (50% or less) on the Centos 6.2 machine.
In attempting ...
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Switch disks to another identical HP ML360 G6 with P410i array controller
In case of hardware failure, for example motherboard/processor, is it possible to put the disks of a raid 1 into a spare server to be back online asap.
If a disk failes and i want to use a disk of ...
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HP iLO2/3 cli: send NMI
I want to send a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) to the system over the HP iLO2/3 cli. Unfortunately I don't know the correct syntax or target:
hpiLO-> nmi
status=2
status_tag=COMMAND PROCESSING ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 RAID conversion?
Proliant DL380-G4 with the onboard SmartArray 6i controller.
Raid 1+0 set consisting of 2x 72 G and 2x 300 G disks (the bigger disks got added later).
Effective capacity about 140 GB and, of course, ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G6 reporting missing fan
I have several refurbished HP ProLiant DL360 G6 servers and several of the systems are reporting fan failures - possibly incorrectly - on fan #2.
When running:
hpasmcli -s 'SHOW FANS'
I get the ...
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IPMI sensor data retrieve from HP Superdome (sx2000) with IPMI tool
i'm trying to extract data sensor from a HP Superdome (sx2000) using the protocol IPMI over LAN. I enabled the IPMI protocol and i setup the password for IPMI protocol on the Superdome.
I'm using ...
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HP Proliant DL320 G5 CPU Fault Light [closed]
I was recently given an HP Proliant DL320G5.
Upon powering it on the internal health light was flashing red and there was nothing on screen
no beeps no hard drive lights.
I opened the server and ...
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HP Proliant DL180 G5 server treats 3-TB SATA disks as 750-GB ones
I have this HP Proliant DL180 G5 server, running with the embedded RAID controller (no Smart Array); with this configuration, it only supports 4 SATA disks. Fine.
The server has 2 250-GB SATA disks; ...
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HP Proliant DL 380 G7: Which storage driver to use for Suse Linux 11 [closed]
I was installing the Suse Linux 11 on HP Proliant DL 380 G7. during installation i got the error " NO usable hard disk found " i got stuck for last 4 days ..need help on prioroty,
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Does it make sense to install online spare memory?
I'm using HP DL360p Generation 8. I need a pretty reliable server, so I'm using RAID 1 with a spare drive, and I also added an extra power supply. But should I install online spare memory? Or ...
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VLAN routing issue
I have HP Procurve Switch 2910AL-24G.
Please see attached configuration.
Client inst2is01 (10.247.167.80) and VLAN ID is 37
Server ILO (Management Port) IP : 10.247.172.70 and VLAn ID is 54
From ...
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6 Disk Raid 1+0
I have an HP Smart Array P400i raid controller, with 6 disks, working in a RAID 1+0. This is what it looks like:
Mirror Group 0:
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 72 GB, ...
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HP P410i Array Controller and lost logical Drive
Today earlier we lost the logical drive information for a 4 drive raid array that was array B!
The system had two arrays A and B A being the single system drive and B the Data drive of 4 x 136Gb ...
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RedHat 5: HP Server ethtool not working
I am trying to check/change my network card speed settings with RedHat 5 and a Proliant G6 server from HP.
On eth0 I can not really use ethtool - it just says Link detected. The network card is a ...
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Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 on Proliant ML150 G2 server
I am investigating if I can install Red Hat Enterprise 5.5 on Proliant ML150 G2 server but I don't know if this configuration is possible.
Is this configuration possible?
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How to get SMART information on local disks in ESXi?
How to get SMART information about local disks (no SmartArray) installed in ESXi host? It is HP DL G6 server, but without the HP Insight Suite.
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HP D2700 enclosure and SSDs. Will any SSD work?
I've got an HP D2700 enclosure that I'm looking to shove some 2.5" SSD drives in. Looking at the prices of HP's SSD drives vs something like an Intel 710 and even something less 'enterprisey', there's ...
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ESXi Hardware Monitoring
I have one single ESXi host on a Proliant ML350 G6. I'm using the free ESXi version and we don't have a license for vCenter.
What I would like to know is how I can get alerts when one of the hardware ...
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How do you take a physical drive offline using HP P410i RAID card
How do you take a physical drive offline using HP P410i RAID card ?
Specifically in a RAID1 array I want to use hpacucli tool to take a physical drive offline then online to test if RAID1 array ...
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Hp Procurve Switch : port filtered
My HP Procurve switch is blocking port 22 and I dont know how to unblock it.Please let me know
From the server, see port 22 is blocked
[root@server ~]#nmap -p22,80,443 10.247.172.70
Starting Nmap ...
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HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) creates multiple grub entries
After installing HP's PSP 8.73 on RHEL5 with a G7 Blade, I end up with 4 grub entries
1 The Standard RHEL
2 HP (choosen as default)
3 HP hpahcisr
4 HP mptlinux
I'm confused as to why I get all ...
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VMWare - persistent “Host memory status” alarm in vSphere
I have a particular VMWare ESX 4.1 host that has a very persistent "Host memory status" alarm.
This is running on an HP ProLiant DL360 G7 server. The HP ILO and System Management agents don't know ...
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DL380 G7: Not able to access ILO on DL380 via ssh from a client
I have problem where I can't access my ILO(ssh to ILO IP) thru client which is in different network.I am able to ping ILO IP thru this clinet but ssh access is not possible.
Is it possible to have ...
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HP UX server , make_recovery vs make_tape_recovery
I have to do a backup on different HP servers with different operation systems (hpux 10.20, hpux 11.00 and hpux 11.11).
I found information about make_recovery and make_tape_recovery, but I don't ...
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HP SAS hdd in non-HP server
I wonder if I could re-use some HP SAS drive in a non-HP server.
Description:
146GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SFF
3G Single Port Hot-Plug 10K HDD
Option Part# 431958-B21
Spare Part# 432320-001
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HP P212 hangs on Initializing
I'm in trouble...
Server: HP Microserver N36L
Storage: HP P212/256 with BBWC
Drives: 4 WD 2 Tb
While expanding the RAID 5 array from 3 to 4 drives, the server rebooted itself. Expansion was at 76%.
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Remote RIB iLO on Proliant via RIBCL
I'm trying to automate a process for our Ops. The process requires that some windows servers running on blades are shut down, left down for a few hours, the restarted when some other processes ...
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Strategy to optimize raid cache
HP SmartArray have "Accelerator Ratio: XX% Read / YY% Write", that configures how much cache ram dedicated for read, and how much for write.
Is there way to find best proportion on alive server in ...
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Dell's equivalents for HP's hpasmcli and hpacucli tools?
As per title. Basically what are Dell's online tools for checking or changing BIOS/RAID-controller level conf. For Linux.
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proliant 380gl g5 raid drive rebuilt but leds are both lit bright green
After replacing a failed Raid 5 146gig SAS drive in logical drive 2 yesterday the system reports all is good but the LEDs on the front of the drive are both on and the one on the left is bright green. ...
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HP Proliant 380 G4 iLO stuck in recovery mode
The iLO interface on this server is stuck in recovery mode. I've tried flashing the firmware via FTP per the iLO manual. It seems like the flash succeeds & the iLO interface resets, but it comes ...
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2 HP Procurve 4000M trunked switches and Comcast SMC Gateway
We've got 2 HP Procurve 4000M switches joined by a trunk. Switch 1 is connected to a Cisco 2600 router which is connected to a T1. Internet traffic for hosts on switch 2 must pass through the trunk. ...
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manufacturing fault : HP 630 laptop and BIOS version
We have received another returned laptop today from HP. The form explaining what HP have performed says they have upgraded the BIOS. I’ve checked the bios versions of all our 630 laptops and HP have ...
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Redhat Kernel patching advice
An audit has pointed out that a RHEL server I manage has not had the latest kernel patches applied. I'm confused about kernel patching and within RHEL in relation to RHEL dot releases i.e 5.2 , 5.3 ...
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RAID5 on SmartArray P410i online resize
I have P410i+256M Cache without battery backup.
My RAID5 was build over 3*136GB disks, now all disks were replaced to a 3*300GB array.
How can I extend it to use the whole space?
HPacucli doesn't ...
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Will vmotion work between two servers of different cpu cores/clockspeeds?
I have a set of hp servers that are HP dl380 E5620 G7s that are used as ESX 4.1 servers. I have them set up to do vmotion and to do fault tolerance. I've just received another set of servers, however ...
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Linux - real-world hardware RAID controller tuning (scsi and cciss)
Most of the Linux systems I manage feature hardware RAID controllers (mostly HP Smart Array). They're all running RHEL or CentOS.
I'm looking for real-world tunables to help optimize performance for ...
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HP DL380 G7 Disk swap to a HP DL380 G6
The HP DL380 G7 has 3 SAS disks in RAID 5 configuration. I need to change that server to another task and instead of make a clean install on the HP DL380 G6 can i just swap the 3 disks from HP DL380 ...
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Compaq DL360 PCI Memory controller
I have a Compaq DL360 with two P3/933 Mhz CPUs and 1152 MB RAM running Windows 2003. Device manager shows a yellow question mark over the PCI Memory Controller. I understand that device to be the ...
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HP DL385 Base System Device
I have an HP DL385 with two Operon 280 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit. Windows device manager show a yellow question mark for the Base System Device. This device is the ...
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HP StorageWorks P4500 G2 Manager Management
According to the documentation, a management group should have an odd number of managers greater than 1. I have a four node SAN consisting of P4500 G2s. I plan on having two clusters with two nodes ...
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Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected
I've got a HP Proliant 460c blade server running CentOS 5.x. For some reason CentOS thinks the mac address for ETH0 is something (18:a9:05:71:xx:xc) but I'm not able to find that MAC at all on the ...
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HP ProLiant ML110 G7 Questions
Have an HP ProLiant ML110 G7 running Server 2008 R2.
Question #1:
This server takes FOREVER to boot. I think it's because of "HP Power and Thermal Calibration" it does at the beginning of every ...
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HP Procurve Issue Passing Multiple VLANs over a link
Just to start off with I am a Cisco guy that got placed into an HP project.
Basic topology overview from outside in:
ASA 5505 with two Ethernet connections to a 2610 switch.
This switch is then ...
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my server hp dl 380gs:no display and very noise
Recently I brought HP-DL380GS and I installed Windows 2008 with updates and left it a long time without use. Now the server does not display anything on the screen and occurs very loud noise?! .
What ...
