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This is a modular computing platform made by IBM which implements blade server architecture.

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Unable to boot unexpected NMI at 0012:7AA3

I have an old IBM blade built in 2005. It is the HS20 blade. Currently, the boot screen of the blade is reporting a NMI fault at 0012:7AA3. The blade then fails at booting and restarts only to fail again and restart again. I have attempted to…
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Is it possible to link more than 7 HP blade enclosures (c7000)?

I have 4 enclosures c7000 per rack. All enclosures inside a rack are interlinked. I log into the first enclosure of a rack and can oversee all interlinked too. Is it possible to interlink more than 7 enclosures? Like 20 or 40?
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Stand-alone Cisco switch in BladeCenter is un-pingable

After un-stacking a Cisco switch in my IBM blade center I can no longer ping the management IP I had configured on my management VLAN. The only item I see that changed is that the Bladecenter AMM added a internal Ethernet management port. There has…
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IBM BladeCenter S: How to configure new SAS disks

I have an IBM BladeCenter S, and I have added two new 450GB SAS disks. I want to configure the disks as a RAID 0, and assign the new disks to one of the servers in the Bladecenter. When I connect to the SAS Controller Module using the webclient,…
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IBM AMM BladeCenter 39Y9661 problems

i'm working on a bladecenter S and i try to update my amm with putty via COM port, but when i want to see my version it doesn't work i use like every time this command: env -T system:mm[1] info result > The target bay is empty. Unable to read…
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Problems with IBM BladeCenter E type 8677

We have an IBM BladeCenter E server with three blades, today I've tried to manage it through telnet, after logout it does not respond on its default "Management Module" address (it was set to 10.0.150.10, normally I've accessed it through web…
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IBM DS3512 Connection to IBM HS22 BladeCenter

I have a BladeCenter HS22 with 14 bladeservers. Attached to the BladeCenter I have a DS3512 storage array. I'm trying to access the DS3512 to configure it but can't manage to do it. I have connected to the two SAS modules IPs via the IBM Storage…
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How can I migrate from IBM BladeCenter chassis E to chassis H?

I'm planning to migrate blade server HS22 and all modules (2 ESMs, 2Brocade SAN Switch modules) from chassis E to chassis H. Do I need to reconfigure all modules? And how about servers? Please share any exp. TIA.
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IBM Blade HS21 Processor Compatibility

Can anyone tell me of a resource where I can find out specifically which IBM HS21 blades support which processors. In particular I have Intel 2X E5420 and Intel 2X E5450 which will work in some of my HS21 Blades but not others. I need to find a…
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Discovering the assigned Blade Name from Linux (IBM BladeCenter)

In the IBM blade center in management module screen I configured the name of the machine as the following Blade tasks --> configuration --> blade information --> name ( I typed --> machine1 in Bay 12) After that I installed Linux machines redhat…
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How to get IBM machine type from operating system level

I have spare IBM HS20, and HS40 Blade servers to use in my project, and I have to choose as modern as possible RHEL release to install on it. My problem is that I don't know exact machine type of this blades (e.g 8843). Is there any possibility to…
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How do you override msconfig /SAFEBOOT?

I have a HS20 (Type 8843) blade in an IBM BladeCenter chassis that was giving me problems. When I attempted to run CMD > chkdsk c: /R > yes on reboot, the chkdsk procedure would briefly begin at startup and then fail, reporting that chkdsk was…
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Problems with DDR2 800 in HS21 blades?

I have two HS21 blades for an ibm bladecenter, and I'm having memory problems since I installed 4 DIMMs of 4GB. I suspect the problem is that I bought DDR2 800 instead of DDR2 667, has anyone had problems with this? Is there any way to fix this…
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IBM BladeCenter S: Disk Configuration

Have just the one storage bay right now (SAS 15K 600GB x 6) and have configured one storage pool in RAID 10 with 4 disks (and two global spares). For each blade, I've created a volume and mapped accordingly: Blade #1 400 GB Blade #2 200 GB …
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Is it possible to use a blade server without the chassis?

Call me stupid, but is it possible to use an IBM BladeCenter HS20 server as a standalone unit without the BladeCenter?
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