topic Virtual connect skipping HP Smart Array in BladeSystem - General

Virtual connect skipping HP Smart Array

Aaron.S — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:13:05 GMT

I dont quite know why or how,
But with a standard boot controller order of HP Smart array first, QLogic fibre second & third,the system doesn't even mention the Smart array while booting. In turn it obviously doesn't recognize any HDDs to boot from.

If I remove the profile associated with the bay from virtual connect manager, the server will default to one NIC and boots to it's HDD just fine.

What is going on?

Re: Virtual connect skipping HP Smart Array

marcus1234 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:12:39 GMT

which server what is it booting from vdisk

Re: Virtual connect skipping HP Smart Array

JKytsi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:58:54 GMT

Do you have SAN boot configured to server profile ?

Re: Virtual connect skipping HP Smart Array

Aaron.S — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:05:41 GMT

Was running W2K8 SP2 on a BL460c.

Solution was: Replace the mainboard.