I just discovered this site, and only thanks to my recently joining the Dell Poweredge-Tools mailing list.
I have a 5 of these enclosures, each with 4 nodes, and I have generally *knock on wood* had very few problems with them. I have even been contemplating building a custom on/off/reset button feature as the board has the pins there to handle that, and even the LED's pins to show activity and power. My little environment has these guys, plus some r905, and 3 C6100 XS23-TY3 enclosures all running proxmox 5.2, and they really do the job just fine.
A while back I purchased an enclosure with 3 nodes but no memory/processors/hard drives to use as spare parts. I powered the enclosure up and all of the boards posted and that's where I stopped. It unit was set aside until last weekend when a node in my environment failed and I had to replace it with one of these spare nodes. Everything went smoothly, and it didn't take me long to swap it out. Got everything back together and it worked like a champ, or so I thought.
Like I said, everything works great except for one tiny, somewhat significant problem: NIC1 works NIC2 does not. In bios NIC1 shows up with the MAC address, but NIC2 shows no MAC address. Bad board, I thought so too. So I tried out a second board... Same issue. Then, a third... Same issue.
So here is my question, what in the heck am I missing here. I cannot believe that all three of these boards have a bad NIC2. Is there additional settings inside the console access that might 'disable' the second NIC? I have gone through the traditional BIOS (BIOS Version 1.0.9 [Xanadu-S X7DWT BIOS]) and I cannot see where this might be hiding, except maybe the console.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
I have a 5 of these enclosures, each with 4 nodes, and I have generally *knock on wood* had very few problems with them. I have even been contemplating building a custom on/off/reset button feature as the board has the pins there to handle that, and even the LED's pins to show activity and power. My little environment has these guys, plus some r905, and 3 C6100 XS23-TY3 enclosures all running proxmox 5.2, and they really do the job just fine.
A while back I purchased an enclosure with 3 nodes but no memory/processors/hard drives to use as spare parts. I powered the enclosure up and all of the boards posted and that's where I stopped. It unit was set aside until last weekend when a node in my environment failed and I had to replace it with one of these spare nodes. Everything went smoothly, and it didn't take me long to swap it out. Got everything back together and it worked like a champ, or so I thought.
Like I said, everything works great except for one tiny, somewhat significant problem: NIC1 works NIC2 does not. In bios NIC1 shows up with the MAC address, but NIC2 shows no MAC address. Bad board, I thought so too. So I tried out a second board... Same issue. Then, a third... Same issue.
So here is my question, what in the heck am I missing here. I cannot believe that all three of these boards have a bad NIC2. Is there additional settings inside the console access that might 'disable' the second NIC? I have gone through the traditional BIOS (BIOS Version 1.0.9 [Xanadu-S X7DWT BIOS]) and I cannot see where this might be hiding, except maybe the console.
Has anyone else run into this issue?