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MicroServer Gen8, alternative or wait?

February 27, 2017, 2:25 am
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I've got an original MicroServer N36L and the PSU fan has become noisy.  It is not economically viable to buy the HP replacement PSU.

I looked a the MicroServer Gen8 as a replacement option.  The benefits are the very low sound level (18dB is advertised in the quickspecs) and the extremely low cost of the Celeron variant, it is cheaper than the cost of any self-build.

However, as it is quite a long time since Gen8 was released I'm worried that the stock may be old and that sooner rather than later the fans will be wearing out and making noise.  I wouldn't want to waste my time and money getting the Gen8 server if it will not immediately resolve the noise issues and stay quiet for at least 2 years from now.

I also have a strong preference for a newer chipset (the Gen8 MicroServer is based on Ivy Bridge) as I want good SSD performance but at the price of the Gen8 Celeron, I would be willing to overlook that, the sound issue is far more critical for me.  There are now plenty of alternatives with Sky Lake chipsets and DDR4 RAM.  A couple of alternatives I looked at:

- a dedicated NAS device, such as Synology or QNAP, although many of these don't support a monitor or OS customization right now

- the Shuttle  SZ170R8 V2 - it has the Sky Lake Z170 chipset, more than double the IOPS performance of Ivy Bridge, but it doesn't have accessible disk caddies or ECC RAM like a MicroServer

- build something myself, e.g. using the ASUS P10S-I motherboard, it has the C232 chipset and supports DDR4, Celeron or Xeon, ECC and everything else a MicroServer does

- wait for a new MicroServer, if there will be one?

 

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ML150 G6 boots only after trying it 2-5 times

February 27, 2017, 3:56 am
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Hello,

I have an ProLiant ML150 G6 with 2 Xeon E5520, 16 GB RAM and two Smart Array Controllers, P410, E200. When I try to boot it, it will power on and speed the fans up to max. speed. Nothing more happens. Then I power it off and try it again. After 2-5 tries it goes to POST and will boot. Then is everything normal. I can reboot and it works. But when I power it off again and wait a little bit (don't know how long) the problem comes again.

I tried to boot with minimal hardware, updated BIOS; same problem. Does anyone else have the same problem or a solution ?

Greetings

Pascal

(Sorry for my bad english)

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Dual port sas on HP ProLiant DL380 G7?

February 27, 2017, 7:12 am
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Hi,

Our firm currently has 2 pro liant DL380 G7. They have from when purchased all SAS which are Dual Port.

I want to upgrade the capacity by buying a new array for raid 10. I am using ESXI 6.0 on both with Windows Server 2008, 2012, Untangle.

The question is, is there any point with Dual Port or should we just get Single Port? 
Please let me know. Thank you in advance!

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ACPI Error: SMBus or IPMI write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32

February 27, 2017, 1:06 pm
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There are numerous bug reports about errors like this appearing on HP servers running various Linux distributions

The error is

   ACPI Error: SMBus or IPMI write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32

I've observed it on a MicroServer Gen8

 

These two bug reports suggest a BIOS update is required to fix the issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1079544

https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010449

but I already have the latest BIOS, version J06

Will HP release another BIOS update for the MicroServer Gen8 with this fix?

 

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modern monitor not working with HP dl380 G3

February 27, 2017, 8:30 pm
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I just bought two of these servers to fool around with.  Got them very cheap.  Trying to load Ubuntu Server onto it.   Problem is the monitor, which I assume it wants to go into some sort of graphics mode after setup.  It works ok when looking at the bios config screens, or Ubuntu setup screens.  I tried not to load anything with graphics, but, it is screwing up after I get through doing setup.

 

My 2008 era LCD monitor just spazzes out, then finally comes up with a little box saying "Not optimum mode.  Recommend Mode 1680x1050 60Hz".  My newer monitor comes back with the message "Input not support".

 

Specs say that's an ATI Rage XL video card in there. 

 

Anyone know what upgraded graphics card might work?  Eventually this will be headless, but, since I'm VERY new to servers and networking, not exactly sure how to Telnet into the server, I'd like a monitor on it until I get everything set up.

 

Thanks. 

 

David

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B140i Controller and Physical drive write cache

February 28, 2017, 3:31 am
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Hi All,

One of my client who is planning to buy a DL 180 Gen 9 server asked about "enabling disk write cache in physcial disk".

I want to know when RAID is configured using B140i controller, will that allow " disk write cache in the physcial disk", since B140i doesn't have cache with FBWC?

Awaiting for reply..

Rrds,

 

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DL 120Gen9 Server and iLO

February 28, 2017, 4:10 am
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Hi All,

DL120 doesn't have dedicated iLO port. NIC 1 is a shared iLO port.

I want a port dedicated for iLO , I ready to spare a NIC for this.

1)If I disable NIC 1 in BIOS , will it work as iLO port?

2) or Should I disable NIC  in Windows server?

Which is the best option?

Awating for response...

Rdgs

 

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Ml350 G5 Power issues won't even POST

February 28, 2017, 6:47 am
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First the old friend indicated fault codes with LED's for the PSU. Ordered a replacement, before I installed it I took the server for a 30km drive. Well at the new location with the new PSU it instead of external health LED gives internal health LED. And the funny thing is now the old PSU seems to work, it gives the same problem.

So the fault seems to have changed.

The internal LED's on system board is now OK. But the DVD and SaS (4 hdd's) doesn't have any power at all.

ILO2 recognize the server as STANDBY (OFF) and internal health OK.

The fans are running, the system board has functioning LED's.

No beep from BIOS and as said no power to the drives.

 

I've already tried to disconnect everthing and putting it back togheter. HP support chat helped me with minimum config start up, didn't work either.

And the internal health LED goes on immediatly.

Can it be the PS backplane? Or is the motherboard fryed?

Because the failure symptoms changed after moving it I suspect the backplane?

Any tips?

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HP H221 SAS Card Stuck at Initializing When Connected to JBOD

February 28, 2017, 7:30 am
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We recently purchased a ProLiant DL380p Gen8 to add as a third node to our Hyper-V cluster. It was specced to match the existing hardware, including an LSI SAS card. The part number on my quote indicates it's the 9207-8E. This is the same part number of the cards we bought about two years ago for the existing servers.

I set the system up as usual, installing Windows and the necessary drivers. After connecting the SAS card to our JBOD (DNS-1640), it wasn't seeing the storage. After adding the node to the failover cluster, I could run VMs on it but when trying to move storage to it, it errored with "Clustered storage is not available to this node."

After rebooting the node, it gets stuck during POST as it tries to initialize the card. It just spins. Screenshot here: http://imgur.com/fVHUbt1. If I unplug the SAS cables, after about 30 seconds, it boots normally.

The card was initially showed this version:

HP H200 Series SAS 2 Host Bus Adapter(s)

MPT2BIOS-7.20.10.00 (2011.07.29)

I upgraded the firmware on the card to the latest I could find on the HP website. It now shows:

Avago Technologies MPT SAS2 BIOS

MPT2BIOS-7.39.00.00 (2014.09.18)

Either way, same result. I also installed the Service Pack for ProLiant 2016.10.0 and updated all of the firmware, so everything should be on the latest. If there's anything specific to check, I can provide that.

I'm not super great with hardware, and when I set up the original two nodes I just plugged them in, installed Windows and it worked. I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot this. I've spun my wheels for hours so I was hoping someone had a suggestion or could point me in the right direction. Thanks.

 

EDIT: I forgot to mention I did RMA the card with Broadcom, thinking it might be a defective card. Same result with a new card. Tried different PCI slot, different cables, and different ports on the JBOD. All yield the same result.

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Minimum physical drives not reached

February 28, 2017, 10:32 am
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Hi there,

Could you please assist



Our HP server has multiple array configuration, for example:


=> ctrl all show config

Smart Array P420i in Slot 0 (Embedded)    (sn: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

   array A (Solid State SATA, Unused Space: 0  MB)


      logicaldrive 1 (223.5 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, Solid State SATA, 240.0 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, Solid State SATA, 240.0 GB, OK)

   array B (SATA, Unused Space: 0  MB)


      logicaldrive 2 (10.9 TB, RAID 1+0, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:7 (port 1I:box 1:bay 7, SATA, 8001.5 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:8 (port 1I:box 1:bay 8, SATA, 8001.5 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:9 (port 1I:box 1:bay 9, SATA, 8001.5 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:10 (port 1I:box 1:bay 10, SATA, 8001.5 GB, OK)

   array C (SATA, Unused Space: 0  MB)


      logicaldrive 3 (7.3 TB, RAID 0, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:5 (port 1I:box 1:bay 5, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:6 (port 1I:box 1:bay 6, SATA, 4000.7 GB, OK)

   Enclosure SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model Gen8 ServBP 12+2) 378 (WWID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Port: 1I, Box: 1)

   Expander 380 (WWID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Port: 1I, Box: 1)

   SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model SRCv8x6G) 379 (WWID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

=>


array A - RAID 1
array B - RAID 10
array C - RAID 0


These arrays are ok, but currently we need to move two physical drives (1I:1:3 and 1I:1:4 which are 4Gb) from the logicaldrive 2 (array B) to logicaldrive 3 (array C)

How can we do this, without physical remove them from the array ?

 



As an example, we can't do this via utility hpacucli, because of these errors : 

=> controller slot=0 array B remove drives=1I:1:3-1I:1:4

Error: This operation is not supported with the current configuration. Use the
"show" command on devices to show additional details about the
configuration.
Reason: Minimum physical drives not reached

=>

and

=> controller slot=0 array B modify drives=1I:1:3-1I:1:4

Error: This operation is not supported with the current configuration. Use the
"show" command on devices to show additional details about the
configuration.
Reason: Minimum physical drives not reached

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Smart Array P212 turns into PMC 6G

February 28, 2017, 7:48 am
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I just in-place upgraded a ProLiant DL360 G7 from Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2; while it took a long time, it did finish.

I had a HPE 1x8 tape autoloader hooked up to this card, and it thankfully was the only device connected to it . After running a post-upgrade backup to tape, one of the backup jobs failed due to the tape device being offline. It turned out the device didn't go offline; the P212 did, and the hardware ID changed to 0x11F8/0x8010, that of a PMC Sierra 6 Gb SAS chip.

Power-cycling the server didn't help, nor did reseating the card. On power-up though, I noticed there was no longer an option ROM output for this card so there was no P212 BIOS to configure.

It also turned out there are no publicly available drivers for a PMC Sierra 6G SAS card; these are OEM chips sold from PMC to other vendors, including HPE apparently, and they tag them with their own hardware IDs. I also learned that PMC got acquired by Microsemi, and they don't have any stand-alone drivers. Just to make sure I wasn't going crazy, I removed the P212 and the "PMC 6G" card no longer appears in Device Manager.

I ended up putting back my backup of Server 2008 R2 because I had other problems with Backup Exec running on the upgraded server. I really doubt any Microsoft-supplied driver broke the card, though.

Is there some way to fix this card? I'm pretty sure warranty expired on it.

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Tandberg RDX Drive on ML350 G6

February 28, 2017, 11:38 pm
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For Backup uses, i've bought a Tandberg RDX Sata III drive.

Installed the Drive, and connected the SATA Connector to the Second SATA port on the Mainboard. (First being occupied by the CD Rom Drive).

The harddrives are connected to the Smart Array.

Server boots fine, but in Windows 2008, i can't see the RDX Drive.

Looked over in the BIOS if i had to enable someting, but all the SATA Controllers are enabled (which sounds good, while the CD is visible in Windows).

Do I miss something to make the RDX visible?

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ML350 G6 AHCI Mode

March 1, 2017, 12:17 am
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Hello,

 

For my Tandberg RDX Drive connected to a SATA Port (see my previous question), the BIOS has to be in AHCI Mode.
Where in the BIOS can i check if its in AHCI mode, or wher do i change it. and will it affect my "Smart Array" ?

P

 

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Cache Module Status failed DL380 G9

March 1, 2017, 1:06 am
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Hello ,

when i check today my server , i found this : Module  HP Smart Array P440ar Controller , Cache Module Status: failed, please how to fix this without loss my DATA .

Best Regards

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DL360 Gen9 Guest VM with FC Switch fails with error

March 1, 2017, 1:58 am
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Hi all, i have one HP DL360 Gen9 Server with FC connection to a HP MSA 2040 G4 Storage. I DON'T have FC switch between them, there is direct connection from Server FC HBA to Storage Controller's Port.

The host runs Windows 2012 R2 Standard, fully updated. The Server and the Storage are also fully updated (firmware and drivers) . I have created one Win 2012 R2 Std VM. I want to present on that VM one Virtual FC card for direct access to some storage's LUNs. I have created my Virtual SAN Switch but when i add the fibre channel adapter to that VM the VM fails to start with error:

"The operation failed with error code '32788'".

Does anyone knows if it is possible to have Guest VMs with Fibre Channel Adapter WITHOUT having an FC switch?

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red screen ProLiant SE326M1

March 1, 2017, 7:14 am
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Hello,

 

Have the problem with "red screen"

HP ProLiant SE326M1 G6

How can I get to bios again? "Red Screen" hinders me from going into BIOS!

Tried clearing CMOS, without success...

 

If you have a good advise for me please reply!!!

Thanks a lot!

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Certificate of Origin

March 1, 2017, 7:27 pm
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I got the following 2 servers which I need the certificate of origin from HP. How do I go about getting it?

HP 654081-B21 ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server 654081-B21 CZJxxxxxPX

HP 654081-B21 ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server 654081-B21 CZJxxxxxQ8

 

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HP Proliant DL180 G6 Server Shutdown unexpectedly

March 1, 2017, 10:44 pm
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Hi,

HP Proliant DL180 G6 Server Shutdown unexpectedly. The error is showing 

"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

We purchase another new power supply. One power supply connected to UPS Which is APC and one is directly connected to Power, then even shutdown unexpectedly.

After shutdown when i ON the one of fan voice increase even server fully ON. The room temparture also cool.

Please let me know what the issue.

Thanks

Basit.

 

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Very high fans speed after upgrade bios for proliant server DL120 G5

March 2, 2017, 12:16 am
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ILO boot incomplete while rebooting

March 2, 2017, 12:29 am
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I am using BL460c Gen9 HPE blades in C7000 Enclosure. We have ubuntu 14.04 OS installed on the baldes.

The blade NIC configuration is as below:

1. 536FLB NIC --> Connecting to Flex D/10D Connector on back plane in Bay 1 & 2

2. 560M NIC --> Connecting to Passthrough Connectgor on back plane in Bay 3 & 4

3. 534M NIC --> Connecting to Passthrough Connectgor on back plane in Bay 5 & 6

The set-up was using PXE boot after the installation. And recently we had to change 534M cards with "QMH2672 16Gb FC HBA" cards connecting to Brocade SAN switch in Bay 5 & 6.

After the replacement when blades were powered on they are not completing the booting from ILO console point of view.

The PXE boot was using 1st NIC described above.

Please let me know if there is a way to still complete the booting and any way around to resolve the situation.

A screenshot of ILO gui is attached for your reference.

An urgent feedback is hihgly appreciated.

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