Absolute nightmare of a DL380 G7

[frankd_1]

We have numerous customers worldwide running these systems and they all see this randomly. I have updated to all the latest FW for BIOS, iLO and P410. I also have the recommended BIOS setting yet they will randomly get a burst of server reboots and then the problem is gone for weeks? I am starting to think that this platform with the P410 is not stable and probably never will be.

[frankd_1]

We have solved this for our servers. There is a bug in the bnx2 public drivers that can be hit if you have unused netwrok ports. So if you system has 4 ports and you are only using two you will see the problem with random server reboots. Just connect the ports to a switch, they need not be configured.

[Wilson010]

Hi Martijn,

I got similiar issue too.

After replace the 1GB BBWS module, is everything okay then?

Thanks.

-Wilson

[battar]

Hi everybody,

Even i am also facing the same problem like others in this blog. I had got total 3nos dl380 g7in which 2nos r running in redhatlinux clustering. Everytime the machine checksum is occurring on either of the server running in clustering  gets rebooted automatically with amberlight. Amberlight gets vanished if rebooted agian manually. But the 3rd machine which is runing out of cluster is fine.

At the same we cannot suspect the os level or cluster config level (as per my assumption and redhat reverted to check with manufacture). Becasue everytime the server reboot it shows machine cheskum error. Attached the iml report.

Workarounds carried out at the site. Firmware 9.30 applied

bios modifciation carried out to Set "Minimum Processor Idle Power State" and enter to "No C states". and HP power profile to "Maximum Performance".still the same problem gets existed.

Presently to be frank psp is not updated, because we think that updating psp may overwrite the kernel of redhat. Is it real, pls clarify.

No part has been replaced still yet.

Os is Redhat Linux 6.1 version.

Advance thanks