Questions tagged [blade-server]
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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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IBM BladeServer Chassis compatibility
I'm looking at buying a 3 year old blade server. My question is, if I buy it and want to insert a current model blade, will it fit?
Also, if the chassis goes "POP" and I need to replace it, will the current model chassis fit 3 year old blades?
What…

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Blade Server Networking Connectivity Solution
We are looking at purchasing 4 of the Dell M1000e Blade Chassis', along with 16x Half Height Servers in each. For our LAN Connection, we are looking at 2x MXL 10/40 GbE IO's per Chassis. From my understanding, each side of the chassis can be daisy…

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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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Are blade servers noisier than regular rack servers?
Further to this question about Blade vs Rack servers I wanted to check some stories I have heard.
Are Blade servers much noisier than regular rack servers? (or was that just when they first came out?)
also, how much more cooling equipment do they…

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How does Mezzanine network ports map to Blades Chasis?
We have Dell M420 Blades with Dell M1000e chasiss ,the backplane has four dell pass-through switches .
On M420 we have Mezzanine card with 4 ethernet ports -
From CMC i see that those Mezzanine 4 ports are assigned as
eth1 and eth3 to C1 (back…

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HP Blade System 7000 - Fans About to Take Off
We've noticed lately that our HP Blade System 7000 sounds like it's going to take off. The top 2 PSU on the right are incredibly loud and blowing out significantly more air than the 2 to the left or the 4 underneath. I have spoken with my team and…

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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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SuperMicro Superblade fails to boot from hard drive
Following issue. I have a number of Superblades with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i cards. One card per server. All of them use the latest firmware (20.13.1-0176) as of this writing (as per the LSI website).
Here one sample configuration of one of the…

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Will ESXi 5.5 in standalone mode (free) support fibre channel SAN?
I have a HP blade in a C7000 enclosure and a new 3PAR StoreServ 7200 over Fibre Channel.
Today we use DAS and have not virtualized our SQL servers.
My goal is:
SQL Server 2008 -> WS2012R2 -> ESXi 5.5 -> Blade G8 -> C7000 Enclosure -> FC Switch ->…

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Strangeness during Windows Server Install (drive duplication) [SAN]
I have recently taken over as an administrator for an IBM chassis and associated blades, along with accompanying IBM SAN.
One of the blades is running VMWare ESXi 5, and we don't need it anymore, so I'm going to wipe it and install Windows…

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IBM Blade Center - Power Consumption with SNMP & IPMI
We have the need to follow and manage the power consumption of each blade, one by one, from our IBM Blade Center system.
Is there a way to do this ?
Anyhow it’s a licensing upgrade or external/internal module to add on the blade system.
Those…

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Graphics cards in a 1U server?
Is it possible to place a graphics card like the AMD HD6970 in a 1U blade server?
I’m looking at either an HP or a Dell, including these two…
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