I'm powering up the second C6100 chassis and nodes I bought back in September this year. The first went perfectly well - all 4 nodes got BMC/IPMI addresses, booted, installed OS and are now running production. The second is a ... difficult birth, shall we say.
So far node 2 is fine. Node 1 I can't set an IPMI address in the BIOS - if I type in an address, it's lost straightaway and not applied. There's a thread in the Dell forums that looks appropriate, but it seems risky - has anyone tried it, or another procedure?
Node 3 is also a problem child, same problem with setting IPMI address and the bonus of a reboot every time it gets halfway through booting WinPE so the fix above is going to be tough. I'm thinking there's probably a HW fault of some type, but without an OS and IPMI, troubleshooting is rather difficult, so alternative suggestions are welcome.
Actually Node 3 and 4 show the same symptom setting BMC - upon entering BIOS Setup, the BMC is shown with the right version, and all is fine until I try to set an IP - then the BIOS basically hangs (or very close to it) and the BMC shows Wrong Channel.
So far node 2 is fine. Node 1 I can't set an IPMI address in the BIOS - if I type in an address, it's lost straightaway and not applied. There's a thread in the Dell forums that looks appropriate, but it seems risky - has anyone tried it, or another procedure?
Node 3 is also a problem child, same problem with setting IPMI address and the bonus of a reboot every time it gets halfway through booting WinPE so the fix above is going to be tough. I'm thinking there's probably a HW fault of some type, but without an OS and IPMI, troubleshooting is rather difficult, so alternative suggestions are welcome.
Actually Node 3 and 4 show the same symptom setting BMC - upon entering BIOS Setup, the BMC is shown with the right version, and all is fine until I try to set an IP - then the BIOS basically hangs (or very close to it) and the BMC shows Wrong Channel.
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