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HP Blade Enclosures: Passthrough Network Modules or Virtual Connect Modules

I was wondering if people had any opinions. I am a big of the virtual connect modules and have only used the pass through's when the blades weren't virtualized and were running large Datbase Servers. Thanks, Rob
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Need advice with regards to mezzanine card for new HP bl460c gen8 blade

The new blade will connect to an iSCSI MSA2000 SAN with a 1Gb interconnect. Do I need both mezzanine slots populated? What ethernet card do you recommend?
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Setting up 2 x switches in a blade server (BX600) - First time

I have the following items: Primergy BX600 MMB3 10 x BX620 S4 2 x Switch Blade (PG-SW107) QNAP (TS-EC1279U-RP – QNAP) (4 x Gigabit Connections) HP Pro curve Switch (2510g-48 (JA9280-A)) Patch Panel connecting all ports from the (2 x Switch Blade…
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Crucial C300 256GB SSDs in Dell M605 (or similar) Blade with Perc H700

Does anyone have any experience with 3rd party SSD drives in any of the Dell Blade range? I'm not prepared to pay dell £1000 for a 100GB SSD drive, when I can pick up 2x 256GB drives for £800! I've read this : Dell SSD options and 3rd party SSDs in…
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Resource Pool sharing in Hyper-V Virtual Machines

I understand that we can install Hyper-V on one server and run a number of Virtual Machines on it, upto the limit of resources of that server. I want to know if it is possible to install Hyper-V lumped on two or more servers, so that the Virtual…
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Setting up a used Dell PowerEdge 1655mc

I recently acquired a used Dell PowerEdge 1655mc blade server with 6 functioning blade units. I need to wipe each of the blade units, reinstall them with fresh copies of Linux, and otherwise get this beast set up. This is my first experience with…
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How do I resolve certificate errors on HP blade center

I'm trying to sort out the ssl certificate errors that we get when trying to manage our HP c7000 blade enclosures. To that end I have created a signing certificate and imported it into the browser. In Onboard Administrator I created a certificate…
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Anyone have experience with Silicon Mechanics 4-Node Machines?

I'm taking a look at buying some new servers (small infrastructure, 2 racks, etc), and although I like a lot of the features in blades, I'm looking at the price point for Silicon Mechanics' 4-node machines.…
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How do we isolate the operating system from accessing the IPMI interfaces on Supermicro MBI-6219G-T blade servers?

We have managed Supermicro servers in the past which have independent IPMI/BMC network interfaces. These IPMI interfaces are all connected to separate VLANS. With those servers the operating system has no connectivity to the IPMI/BMC interface, and…
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Issues with HP BL460c Gen8 - wrong processor(s) and memory showing?

I have searched all the posts possible (dip switch resets 1,5,6 etc) and reset via removal of Battery for days, still no good solution. I bought a matched pair of Xeon E5-2650V2 2.60 GHz for each blade, They turn on with the red bar blinking along…
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Same or different network for BladeCenter Management Module

I'm looking for recommendations and reasons for having the BladeCenter Management Modules either on the same network as the Blades and other servers or on a separate network. Configuration Information IBM BladeCenter (MTM 8677-2XX) Three HS20…
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XenServer 7.2 Hot Fix - Can only apply to Pool not Individual Hosts

I'm running xenserver 7.2 on a few M620 blade servers. I'm trying to apply XS72E004 and 005 patches. I go to the notification section and select Download/Install next to each patch. I have a pool created and if I leave the pool selected I can apply…
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Delete all user accounts in HP blade server using hponcfg and RIBCL

I need to remove all existing user accounts and configuration from iLO2 on many old HP blade servers. As far as can do config/log clearance with hponcfg << EOF and pasting my script, I cannot remove all user accounts. I tried with…
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Setting HP iLO Name

I need to change the iLO names that show up in "show server list" per client request. The methodology I currently use is very slow (~25 minutes per chassis). connect server N set /system1 oemhp_server_name=ABC123 set /map1/dnsendpt1…
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What are the most reliable blade server manufacturers?

I'm researching the implementation of a new blade server setup at my company to run Windows servers (including virtualisation). I've heard anecdotes of bad hardware and vendors but would like to know from a broader audience some facts. Once we go…
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