Hi,
First time Blade Enclosure user here. Have set up quite a few renderfarms and license servers before but they have all been based around 1U-2U racks. Being Creative (3D and VFX) primarily I still kinda know my ways around the technical side of production and infrastructure. Blade enclosures and blades are however a blind spot.
Brief background and current situation:
Got a C7000 with 16 x BL465c G7 and trying to investigate the current state of it all. It's been disconnected for a while and all parts were removed. I have connected PSUs, Fans, KVM and one more controller unit in the back which I am unsure of what it actually does… I connected 4 blades which were all recognised instantly. Showing amber light and appearing in OA. However, none of them wanted to boot saying “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. I went ahead and flashed the latest OA firmware going from 4.70 —> 4.97. After the system rebooted the blades were moved to "ok status" and turned green!
I thought, sweet lets connect a few more. I have now connected 8 blades. The new blades connected also said “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. I rebooted the OA and 2 of the 4 Blades were moved to “OK status”. The last 2 still wants a VC profile applied. As you can tell from this, I have pretty much no idea what I am doing. Randomly fixing things without actually knowing what solved it. I would be very grateful for guidance. I guess some (all) of you will say “try reading the manual”. I have, but I don’t know what I am looking for. It’s a wall of text!
Questions at the moment:
- Some Blades do report type of processor and amount of RAM in OA, others don’t. Hardware fault or misconfiguration?
- Some Blades show pretty weird/garbage names in OA. Hardware fault or misconfiguration?
- A couple of Blades still show “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. What is the cause of this? How do I fix it?
- How do I connect to individual Blades? They seem to be given an internal IP through iLO which I am unable to reach via network/OA
- Is there a desktop side software to manage the enclosure and/or individual blades?
- What the best way to deploy OS and software over multiple Blades? Preferably unattended.
Thanks in advance,
// Carl
First time Blade Enclosure user here. Have set up quite a few renderfarms and license servers before but they have all been based around 1U-2U racks. Being Creative (3D and VFX) primarily I still kinda know my ways around the technical side of production and infrastructure. Blade enclosures and blades are however a blind spot.
Brief background and current situation:
Got a C7000 with 16 x BL465c G7 and trying to investigate the current state of it all. It's been disconnected for a while and all parts were removed. I have connected PSUs, Fans, KVM and one more controller unit in the back which I am unsure of what it actually does… I connected 4 blades which were all recognised instantly. Showing amber light and appearing in OA. However, none of them wanted to boot saying “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. I went ahead and flashed the latest OA firmware going from 4.70 —> 4.97. After the system rebooted the blades were moved to "ok status" and turned green!
I thought, sweet lets connect a few more. I have now connected 8 blades. The new blades connected also said “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. I rebooted the OA and 2 of the 4 Blades were moved to “OK status”. The last 2 still wants a VC profile applied. As you can tell from this, I have pretty much no idea what I am doing. Randomly fixing things without actually knowing what solved it. I would be very grateful for guidance. I guess some (all) of you will say “try reading the manual”. I have, but I don’t know what I am looking for. It’s a wall of text!
Questions at the moment:
- Some Blades do report type of processor and amount of RAM in OA, others don’t. Hardware fault or misconfiguration?
- Some Blades show pretty weird/garbage names in OA. Hardware fault or misconfiguration?
- A couple of Blades still show “power delayed until VC profile is applied”. What is the cause of this? How do I fix it?
- How do I connect to individual Blades? They seem to be given an internal IP through iLO which I am unable to reach via network/OA
- Is there a desktop side software to manage the enclosure and/or individual blades?
- What the best way to deploy OS and software over multiple Blades? Preferably unattended.
Thanks in advance,
// Carl
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