topic Re: P4300 Cluster: Remove suspect node - no current FOM in StoreVirtual Storage

P4300 Cluster: Remove suspect node - no current FOM

XtenZ — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:17:59 GMT

Last week I had tried updating a P4300 4 node cluster from 8.5.x to 10.5.x. In the attempt the single FOM dropped never to come back online again. I then proceeded to create a FOM 10.5.x to be added to the cluster once I had upgrded the nodes, only to fail once more. This time, there is 1 node that is complaining that all Fans and Power supplies are bad. The alerts/diagnostic must be a false/positive as I have checked myself.

Cluster Info

4 - P4300

RAID5 Config

All volumes are RAID10 (2-Way Mirror)

Free Space 9%

Are there any recommendations on how to proceed from here?

Is it possible to remove the node from the cluster and restripe?

Is there somewhere I can get the ESX FOM 8.5.x ovf?

Thanks.

Re: P4300 Cluster: Remove suspect node - no current FOM

XtenZ — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:25:15 GMT

I have shutdown the suspet node and let it sit for 30min then powered it back on. The health is amber but fans are blowing as well as both PSUs.

Re: P4300 Cluster: Remove suspect node - no current FOM

oikjn — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:50:27 GMT

contact support over that one.

As for the failure of the FOM during the upgrade. v10.5 is x64 while I think <v9.5 is all x32 so the FOM cannot be upgraded directly and HP says to remove the old FOM and reinstall a new one instead of upgrading it (as you did).