topic Re: P Class power issues in BladeSystem - General

P Class power issues

Nigel Peirce — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:46:16 GMT

We have five P-Class enclosures fed from a bus bar powered by two 3Phase power enclosures, each enclosure has six power supplies.

When running on a single power feed (Normally 3 phase) the right hand blades in our enclosures do not power back on without manual override. The Error Logs have messages to suggest the power supply is not redundant.
I have checked the power usage using the serial interface on the power enclosures and all 12 are averaging between 450-650 Watts each.
Each Power enclosure reports that "Enclosure Power Used: 3621W" & "Zone Power Allocated: 11804W", I am unsure what the Zone Power figure means!
All PSU show their status as "Present - Power Good"
Can anyone give advice on how to overcome this issue of them not automatically powering back on.

Re: P Class power issues

Nigel Peirce — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:56:51 GMT

Forgot to mention that all enclosures have Firmware V2.33 & blades are running V1.91

Re: P Class power issues

Pasquino — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:02:14 GMT

Hi,

is the load balancing cable installed?
Do you have a G1 or G2 enclosure?
Pasquino.

Re: P Class power issues

Nigel Peirce — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:05:33 GMT

Yes the load balancing cable is installed and we have two G1 enclosures and three G2 enclosures.

Re: P Class power issues

Veram_ — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:28:45 GMT

Hi Nigel,

i suggest to update from 2.33 to 2.40

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=397630&prodNameId=3288174&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-9e0e8e80b2d545eeaa26c38678

because I guess it is FW related.

Best Regards