V2500 DC Power Supply

[John Paine]

Hi All,
I have a DC PSU gone bad in a V2500 server. Does anyone know whether the PSU is hot swappable or not?

Thanks,
John.

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

AFAIK they are not hot swappable. I believe you'll have to schedule some downtime. The lack of hot-swappable assemblies in the Vs was one of the major factors that moved us off them. Heck - even the tape drive is not hot-swappable.
The Vs have 4 "quadrants" IIRC, with a PSU for each. Did you lose the cards in that quadrant?

Rgds,
Jeff

[John Paine]

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the info - I suspected they weren't but it's about 4 years since I did my V training and couldn't remember!.Didn't lose anything tho as we have the redundancy thing selected on the ENRB.Guess I'll have to find some downtime.

Thanks again for the confirmation.

Regards,
John.

[Bill Colley]

John,

Yes, the Node Power supplies are hot swappable in the V2500. You can have up to 4 in a system and with the 4 supplies you get redundancy for a fully loaded system. They supply 48 volts in parallel, so you can lose one and still be fully functional.
System that are not fully loaded may even operate on 2 supplies depending on the number of processor, memory, and io cards are installed in the system.

Thanks,

Bill