topic c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem in BladeSystem - General

c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Bernd Dietzel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:46:40 GMT

Hi,

we have a strange issue with BL460c G6 in a c7000 enclosure with 2 VC Flex10 LAN and FC.

The Problem is, that the blade in Slot1 has physical Ethernet Link but is not able to communicate while the blades in the other slots do.
Now, when I move the blade in slot1 to another slot and copy the profile, it works fine. When I take a working blade and put it in slot1 and copy the profile, the blade doesn't work either. When I failover the VCs the problem persists. Firmware is uptodate.

We have this issue in 2 separate enclosures with identical configuration. HP support has no idea yet. Config is fine.

Thanks for any feedback!

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Bernd Dietzel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:34:19 GMT

We have tried a few things.

BL460G6 does not work
BL460G1 works

... seems to be a problem with 10G connects on G6 with Flex10 ...

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

HEM_2 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:48:29 GMT

There was an issue with how blades were populated in bays with Flex10. I would recommend upgrading VC to fw 2.12 as the symptoms you describe sound very similar to the blade population issue.

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

JonathanT — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:20:24 GMT

Upgrade your Flex-10 and OA to the latest available firmware and the blade population issue goes away. I've got Flex-10 running and the blades are in bays 1,2 with no issue passing traffic back and forth.

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Bernd Dietzel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:01:10 GMT

Hi,

thx for your answers,

OA FW is 2.60
Flex10 FW us 2.12

So this should be the latest. The issue persists, though. HP wants to replace the flex10, but they don`t seem to be available at the moment.

Jonathan, do you have G6 running in slot 1+2?

br

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Bernd Dietzel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:22:25 GMT

update:

tried Flex10 FW 2.30 with no improvements.

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Igor Karasik — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:27:47 GMT

>>do you have G6 running in slot 1+2?

C7000, BL460 G6 in bays 1,2, 9,10,
VC firmware 2.30, 2 Flex-10 (no FC)

All works Ok.

Re: c7000 VC-Flex-10 network problem

Ahmed Alylee — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:50:00 GMT

Hello Bernd,

I got the same issue but in bays 1,2,3,4 , I have all of the servers BL460 G6 , and all the enclosure is fully populated

Did you find a solution ?

Thanks