I have recently installed 2 new BL 460c G6 blades into our C7000 chassis which are already occupied with 4 BL460c G1's.
The blades have ESX 3.5 U4 installed and appear to be functioning fine. However in the C7000 Onboard Administrator, the 2 G6 blades picture dont appear correctly. instead of a pictre of the blade I get a grey square with the only indicator on them being the power supply button.
I have tried taking the both blades out and re-inserting them thinking maybe it may not have connected correctly the first time, but this does not make any difference.
I have recently updated the OA firmware to Ver 2.80 and the G6's have the latest firmware - I24 10/01/2009 (9th Dec 2009). I beleive that all my blades and chassis hardware comply with the C7000 compatibility matrix.
I have not contacted HP support yet but thought I would post on here first to see if anyone else has had the same issue.
Apart from that, everything appears to be functioning normally...
I am assuming a typo in the original post and that the OA firmware is actually at 2.60.
I don't think that there is a 2.80 version of OA firmware (yet).
Regarding the issue.
I would go under Enclosure Settings > Configuration Scripts and generate an Inventory report for the enclosure. Then skip down ~2/3 of the way to the individual server information. Check that all of the data on the new server "makes sense" and is consistent with what is listed for your older servers.
I recently had an issue where some garbage in the Serial Number field caused none of the servers to be displayed in OA.
You are right about the firmware - too many firmwre numebrs to remember in my job! The firmware for the OA is 2.60 and the Firmware for the ILO on each G6 servers is 1.80
I can connected to each of the server's ILO without any dramas :)
I generated a Inventory Report, everything appears to be consistent, ie - serial numbers are displayed correctly. The only item that it cannot define is the Part Number of the blade - this shows up as unknown...
I also tried relocating one of the affected blades across from Bay 7 to Bay 8 and generated the same thing...
I dont really know if this is the case, however it would seem feasible that the OA firmware may be using the Part # to select the correct graphic to display in the topology diagram. Without the part #, it displays nothing (who knows ??)
I also dont know if this is the case, however it might be possible to manually enter the appropriate part # in the BIOS. I am sure that one of the Proliant guys will be able to tell us.
Yes you can modify the part number in RBSU (BIOS). Edit the field for "product ID" so that it matches the 6-3 number on the blade. Although I have never heard that this is how the enclosure determines the graphic, it is definitely an interesting idea.
It is interesting that the BIOS has the Part #, but the inventory claims that it is unknown. It maybe (unlikely though you might think) that there isn't a graphic available.
It would be interesting to find out if any one is using the 460c G6 blades and is getting a correct display. I would also be interested in what part # their BIOS says it is.
- yes BL460 G6 works and provides graphic in OA GUI (C7000 with OA f/w = V2.60) - BIOS product ID = 507864-B21 - BIOS date = I24 07/25/2009 - OA GUI partnumber is [unknown] - OA systemboard spare p/n is 531221-001
but firstly i would flash firmware on the "unknown devices" and reinsert them then reboot the OA logs Extract the Showall report:%%% Go to the OA GUI>Enclosure settings > Configuration Scripts > fill the URL of the file in the URL box: ftp://iss:tools@hprc.external.hp.com/showall.txt and the hit APPLY button. The commands in the file showall.txt will be downloaded and executed in the GUI and the result will be visible in a new pop up window. You can easily copy this into a notepad text editor.
