Lansafe III on multiple vpars

[Carl Houseman]

Installing Lansafe III for use with an R6000 UPS that powers an RP7420 with 2 vpars.

Would it be safe to say, that in order to shutdown both vpars, I need separate serial ports on each vpar and Lansafe configured to shutdown two completely separate computers?

And since I only have the one UPS serial cable (in the trio on the system box labeled Console, Remote, and UPS), then I need another serial mux dedicated to the other vpar to provide a shutdown signal to that vpar?

Has anybody actually done this?

thanks...

[Ian Vaughan · Accepted solution]

Hi there,
I seem to remember earlier this year when I installed a R3000 that I was able to signal a shutdown to multiple hosts using the free HP Power Manager software.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/power-protection/software/power-manager/index.html

The R6000 is listed in the supported hardware.
Obviously you need network connectivity even during the power outage (run a hub/switch off the UPS?) but one physically connected, via serial cable, vpar acts as the UPS "server" and the rest act as clients. I set it all up in about 30 mins having never seen the software before.
I found Power Manager to be nice & freindly and I think you just web to it on a certain port.
Hope this helps
Ian

[Torsten.]

AFAIR lansafe software is simply not supported with multiple "n" or "v" partitions in your server, because only one partition has access to the serial UPS port.

I remember to read this in a manual.

Perhaps you can work around this by bringing a script in place to shutdown the second vPar from the first.

[Carl Houseman]

Ian,

Looking here:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/power-protection/software/power-manager/index.html

I don't see the R6000 listed as a supported UPS. Where did you see otherwise?

thanks.

[Ian Vaughan]

Here -
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11657_div/11657_div.html

Give it a whirl & let us know how you get on.

regards
Ian

[Carl Houseman]

Ian, that looks great. I installed it and setup a remote agent on the second vpar.

Only problem is, I inherited this system without any documentation for the UPS. I would guess that the 5 load centers displayed in HPPM are representative of physical outlet(s) on the UPS itself? If so, do you or anyone know where I can download the UPS manual? I've searched to no avail.

thanks!

[Carl Houseman]

NM, I found TFM online with Google, not at HP, but it looks correct!
http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/powertrust/ups6kuserguide.pdf

[Carl Houseman]

Configuration question now...

R6000 has 3 208V load centers. RP7420 has 2 x 2N redundant PS (total of 4 208V power cords).

For max redundancy/reliability, I would power the two outlets of each 2N PS with different load centers. So the power to my HPPM Management server and my 2nd vPar come from (at minimum) two load centers. But I can't instruct HPPM of that fact.

I'm presuming that unconfigured load centers will remain powered on during a power failure for as long as possible. So after the presecribed shutdown time, the UPS will turn off load center 1, and the remaining load centers will continue supplying power to the RP7420 until the batteries are discharged.

Is that correct, and is there any better way to do this? System is quasi-production so I can't experiment at will...

thanks.

[Carl Houseman]

Once again I think I can answer my own question... 1st load center gets management server which is first vpar. 2nd load center gets remote management client which is 2nd vpar. That takes care of both RP7420-powering load centers.

thanks all...