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тАО02-06-2009 09:17 AM
тАО02-06-2009 09:17 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
It will make life simpler later on.
The only comment I have is that I would probably pair the 2 nics and use them for management/vmotion rather then splte them. Redundancy is more important in my eyes and running both on the same connection is acceptable in small environments.
The only thing I would do is use 1 onboard nic and 1 mezz nic as the first pair, then use the other onboard and other mezz nic as the other pair... so that you are covered incase the mezz card dies for some reason. I haven't seen one die yet.
Steven
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тАО02-06-2009 09:22 AM
тАО02-06-2009 09:22 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
Thanks again.
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тАО02-06-2009 09:23 AM
тАО02-06-2009 09:23 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
You should not need to use the uplink ports for anything. They are there mostly for trubleshooting problems.
double check your IP settings. Directly attach the server to the OA if you have to using a cross over cable to make sure they can talk to each other properly.
Generally speaking, the networking is usually at fault 75% of the time. (or more). They swear up and down that everything is right on their side.... until they actually check it.
Steven
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тАО02-06-2009 09:37 AM
тАО02-06-2009 09:37 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
I was able to get to the login screen once, but while I was typing in the credentials, the connection started timing out.
I;ve been able to connect in fine and run the web page and wizards using the uplink connection.
One more related question: Normally our default gateway is the ".1" entry on each subnet. However, since this subnet they set up isn't routed out anywhere, there is no gateway IP defined. Will this cause any problems for any of the devices if I leave the default gateway blank, or set it to 10.5.100.1?
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тАО02-06-2009 12:55 PM
тАО02-06-2009 12:55 PM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
I checked with our network group, they said that everything was OK at their end.
However, they may be right (at least this time). Using the uplink 169.254.x.x port, I ran the first time setup on the one chassis. I configured the OA modules using the IP's that I had been setting through the front panel. When the wizard completed, I disconnected the uplink port and connected through the regular IP on the OA. It's working fine now. I'm not sure what was different by setting it up that way, but at this point as long as it's working...
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тАО02-09-2009 01:37 PM
тАО02-09-2009 01:37 PM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
I'm now working on the blades. I have a question about placement of the blades themselves. We're starting out with 5 blades per chassis. Would I do better to put all 5 adjacent to each other, or space the blades out in the chassis? I was thinking that by spacing out the blades, it will spread the heat load out on the fans so that they'll all run at a fairly even speed, instead of some at higher and the others low.
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тАО02-16-2009 02:25 AM
тАО02-16-2009 02:25 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
as per HP documentation, you should be able to cool down c-7000 fully packet with the set of fans supplied with it. From this point, it really does not matter where do you put your blades if you are not talking about adding some storage or pci blades later on ...
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тАО02-16-2009 10:34 AM
тАО02-16-2009 10:34 AM
Re: Advice on setting up new blade systems
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