3
votes
Accepted
Is a blade server a cluster system or a multiprocessor system?
A blade server is simply a chassis with individual blades that share some common elements, such as the chassis, power supply, cooling, and related cabling.
Each blade is its own server, with it's own ...
- 6,274
3
votes
HP C7000 alarms from blades via Onboard Administrator
Maybe there's any way to do it via OA?
No there's not, you're expected to do it either via each blade's iLO, it's OS or SIM/OpenView.
- 101k
2
votes
What are the considerations which decide the server Dimensions in Rack Servers?
You're getting your terms wrong sorry.
A blade server is a physically small server that fits inside a larger chassis that provides the blade servers inside it with common services such as power ...
- 101k
2
votes
Accepted
Connection speed between blades
It depends on the server generation.
The downplane connections of G6 and newer blades have the capability of 2 x 10GbE LOMs per server.
While your backplane connections sound like they're 1GbE, the ...
- 197k
2
votes
Accepted
Can HP blade server/any server units be run as stand alone workstation?
No. They cannot. The blade server requires an enclosure in order to provide power, networking and downplane/backplane connections. It is useless without this.
- 197k
1
vote
where can I find the Specifications of a Blade Server?
You can just query the OS for this information. As an example, on Linux cat /proc/cpuinfo will show you detailed information about the CPU of the system, including its speed.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
- 98.4k
1
vote
Accepted
HP c3000 chassis to HP c7000 chassis swap
As ewwhite say this can be made to work but with a few caveats.
Firstly you don't mention the specific model or generation of blade you're using but I'm imagining they'll be something a BL460 G6 or ...
- 101k
1
vote
Accepted
Unable to close the LCD Display Panel on an HP C3000 blade chassis
This is silly...
How would anyone here know what's interfering with your HP C3000 blade's display and its ability to retract into the enclosure?
If you're physically in front of the server, keep ...
- 197k
1
vote
Moving HP BL460c and partnered D2220sb blades to new c7000 slots
You don't mention what interconnects you have in either C7K but on the assumption they were passthroughs then;
Step 1. Shutdown the BL460c
Step 2. Move both blades at the same time
Step 3. Power on ...
- 101k
1
vote
How to determine M1000e CMC IP address from CLI of an installed blade?
After much investigation, I was able to obtain this information using this command:
racadm get System.ChassisInfo
It seems to only work in iDRAC7 and newer.
1
vote
Accepted
XenServer - Removing Blade Server from Chassis
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 ...
- 2,329
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible