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Question about earlier Flex-10 posting

The Brit — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:29 GMT

From HEM's answer, and the posters response, it does seem that the solution worked, (at least in this case).

Can anyone give more detail about why this solution worked? i.e. why is it necessary to fill the enclosure slots from the bottom up?

[I know that it used to be that the top blade was supported by the bottom blade, unless the top blade was a storage blade (in which case there was a divider kit available)

I am more interested in why this restriction is specific to Flex10 modules, since it clearly has configuration implications for setting up enclosures.

Is this information documented somewhere??

thanks

Dave

Re: Question about earlier Flex-10 posting

Nick Eoannidis_1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:43:23 GMT

i will second this from dave. as soon as i plugged the 5x blades into the bottom bays 9 onwards the flex nic 2 connects fine.

Re: Question about earlier Flex-10 posting

Adrian Clint — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:42 GMT

I cant find any mention of this in the Flex-10 update training I got from HP last month.
Then again it was using c3000.

Re: Question about earlier Flex-10 posting

Michael Leu — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:33:27 GMT

Jeroen Kleen has pointed out that it is fixed in VC 2.12:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1364740

I found the following in the fixes section on the download page:

Resolved an issue with some server links mapped to a VC Flex-10 Ethernet module may not be able to link up under certain enclosure/server configurations.

Re: Question about earlier Flex-10 posting

The Brit — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:14:58 GMT

Just waiting to schedule a VC firmware upgrade.

thanks for your comments.

Dave.