HP blade installation experience

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Author: User
Configuration: c7000
Chassis (standard, 2
Power Supply Module, 4
Fan (s,


Front View:




Rear view




:



Four Power Supply Modules


Six fans


 
Bl460
Ten (half-height blade servers,



Bl680
(Full-height blade servers) three,



2
Items

Gbe2c 1000 m
Ethernet switch,




1
Items

HP brocade 4/12 SAN Switch
.


 
 
First, the power module is inserted from the hot swappable power area in front of the chassis, and then the fan is pushed forward from the back of the chassis. Then
C7000
"
8
Items
Interconnecte
Insert two Ethernet switches in the first row of the interconnect bracket area. Insert the first optical switch to the left of the second row. Finally, we can find that,
10
Half-height heel
3
Full Height Blade
C7000
Hewlett-Packard officially said that the above is not supported. The number of semi-high-end and full-height hybrid inserts must be an even number. Let's take a look.
C7000
The approximate diagram of the inserted server.
 
 
The partition in the middle is used to support half-height blade servers.
4
Block. Can be removed. The removal method is as follows:
 

After removing a partition, you can mount it.
2
A full-height blade, that is, it can be mounted in total
8
. If you do not remove the partition, the above can be put in one vertical bar.
4
Half-height, can be mounted in total
16
Half-height. Here I am
10
Half-height heel
3
To be mixed. You have to remove two partition boards and put them in the first vertical bar.
2
Full height, put in the second vertical bar
1
Full Height and
2
Half-height. Now the problem is coming. And the rest of the world
2
Half-height, middle partition has been removed, no support. That is to say
2
Items
The half height must be vertical, but if the half height above is directly stacked on another platform, it must not be inserted, and it cannot be aligned with the jack on the back panel. So the middle of the two half-height must be padded with something.
Align the above Jack with the backplane! (Well, I am looking for a piece of cardboard plug in. Fortunately, the customer is better at speaking. I called HP and said there should be a special board, but I was looking for all the boxes.
I cannot find it again. Some also say that the number of blade servers cannot be configured like this. .. That's not clear ...)
Install all and then connect
PDU
, Power-on. Everything works.
Start configuring OA (
HP onboard Administrator
Chassis Controller)


Configure blade Chassis
IP


Address


Use HP
C-class Blade Server
Of
OA
Remote Management port installation settings
Onboard administrator card

(
In this article
OA
Representative
Onboard administrator)
1
Set through the small LCD screen at the front of the cage
OA
Of
IP
Address: select
Enclosure settings;

 


 
2
Enter
Enclosure settings
After, Set
Oa1 IP address 192.168.1.1,
Select
Accpect all;

 
 

 
 
 
 


Blade Chassis
IP




Address, login blade for configuration


 
 
3
Through the terminal
Ie6.0
Enter
OA
Port
Of
IP
Address:
192.168.1.1
; Enter
OA
Enter the factory information of the paper in front of the machine
OA
User name and password.

 


 
 
4
Enter
Rack Overview
It displays the hardware status of the blade in an intuitive way.

 
 
5
If this is the first installation
C-class
Blade, directly entering
First time setup wizard;
 

 

 
6
Enter
Configuration Management,
It can be used to quickly reload a previously prepared
OA
Settings;


 
7 rack and enclosure settings,
Set the cage name, time, and time zone;
 
 

 
8 Administrator account setup
Set Administrator Account
;
Pin Protection
Enable and set
PIN code
To set a password for the LCD screen in front of the blade cage.
 

 
9 Local User Accounts
Add and manage accounts

 
 

 
10
Set
Oa ip Address
;
 


 
11 ebipa settings
Enables automatic distribution of cages to blades inserted in the frame.
Ilo2
The management address is automatically allocated to each network device that is inserted in the host box;

 
 
 


 
12 directory settings
Enabled
LDAP Group
Enter Authentication Mode
OA
, Set again;

 
 
 

 
13 onboard administrator networking settings


OA
Enable
DHCP
Or
Static
IP
Settings;

 
 
 

 

 
14 enclosure SNMP settings
Set the Network Management Protocol of the cage;

 
 
 

 
15 Power Management
, Power management settings three modes
: N + n
Redundancy;
N + 1
Redundancy; no redundancy;

 
 
 
Dynamic Power Supply protection mode and input power limit

 
 
 
16
The first installation and Setup Wizard is complete.

 
 
 

 
 
 
After the configuration is complete, prepare to install the system.
C7000
No
DVD
Optical Drive, but there is a converter (also known as "braid"), the braid is connected to the front panel of the blade server, and two
USB
Port and two Display Interfaces. The preliminary assumption is that the external
USB
To install the system. This method is not officially tested by HP. They use
ILO
Remote Installation System. Some colleagues say that external connections
USB
The optical drive is feasible, and they are also installed successfully. But that time I used external
USB
But cannot start from the optical drive. Later, the customer was eager to switch
ILO
Installation System. (I guess I could not
USB
Is it because the drive is started?
USB
Keyboard: After the system detects the keyboard, the system will pass the keyboard and the optical drive will not be detected. Therefore, the system cannot read the keyboard. If you want to know it, send a reply to me ). First
ILO
Set the IP address. Find the root network cable and connect your computer to the c7000 chassis.
ILO
), Enter the IP address to the corresponding blade server, enter the user name and password (you can add it yourself), and then configure the CD path. Test the connection to okay and start installing the system. Specific
ILO
How to use it is available on the official website of HP. The attachment contains a simple ILO configuration document.


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