c-Class OA & iLO Architecture

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Was just wondering with the c-class enclosures whether the iLO for the blades is part of the underlying enclosure firmware, or whether each blade server has an iLO chip in it?

I thought it was all in the enclosure, but I've had a couple of things happen that is causing me to doubt myself.

Cheers

[JKytsi · Accepted solution]

every blade has it's own ILO2 chip. Onboard Administrator communicates with those.

[JKytsi]

Here You can find all the essential documents about bladesystem

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/c-class-tech-function.html

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jarkko K,

Not the answer I wanted to hear, but it does answer the questions that were coming up today :) (looks like I have a lot of servers to update firmware on!)

Cheers :)

[JKytsi]

Don't worry ..there are lots of tools to update masses of ILO firmwares

[Adrian Clint]

You have.
iLO firmware
OA firmware
BIOS firmware
Array controller firmware
Power Controller Chip firmware
HBA firmware
NIC Chip firmware
Blade Network switch firmware
Blade SAN switch firmware

You can be alerted to out of date versions of a lot of these if you setup Version Control Repository in SIM