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QLogic HBA card not showing on MDS switch database

MZithulele — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:32:38 +0000

I have just added a new blade server HP PROLIANT BL 465 G7 to a HP C7000 ENCLOSURE. The server was installed on slot 4 of the blade enclosure. It has a QLOGIC hba installed on it. There is no operating system installed. The fibre cable has been connected to the pass through module at the back on the corresponding port ie port 4. This has been connected to the MDS SWITCH. The port on the MDS SWITCH has been enable. When running FLOGI DATABASE command on the swith it does not show the WWN of the HBA CARD on the server. Is it because there is no OS installed on the server. What do I need to do for this to be visible to the switch without installing operating system.

How to move LUNs to new Virtual Machine

PPM7 — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:45 +0000

I’m using vSphere 4.0, ESX 4.0, and have a DELL CX 300 SAN with LUNs that are attached to a DELL blade server w/hba. I need to move the LUN’s from the blade serve and attach them to a new VM. I know that I need to use RDM but not sure where to start or how to proceed. Do I have to move or copy data from current LUN’s to new RDM LUN’s or just attach the LUN’s to the VM? Thanks

Virtual machine per blade server

Interviewer — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:31:48 +0000

Hi,.

Quick question, how many VM servers can you run these days on a blade server (HP or IBM bladecenters), I guess thius depends on the CPU’s and memory on the blade right?

Assuming I had 8GB memory and 2 phyiscal CPU’s.

The blade server would be running virtual Citrix PS4

Is it possible to add a 2.0 USB port in the Blade Server?

Handling123 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:16:34 +0000

What is the best and fastest way to back up the Blade Server?

Are blade servers interchangeable with different blade chassis

Grabber — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:08:34 +0000

I have an IBM Blade Chassis. Can I put an HP blade server (Or some other vendors server) in this chassis as long as it is a 1U server?

Blade server and Performance

Sociopal — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:19:01 +0000

I am new to BladeServer. People are talking about 1 Blade server and 3 Blade servers. If I need to do the performance Test on this, would it matter if it is 1 or more Blade servers? Will I be able to run performance test on 1 blade server and then multiply it by 3 to get the performance of 3 Blade server? Please suggest. And also please let me know about the actual benefits of using a Blade server

Blades Comparison: HP vs Dell

Aguacer0 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:56:55 +0000

If you had the choice to pick a blade platform, who would you choose and why?

San Mount Volume Changed HELP!!!

GMB863 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:59:30 +0000

I run a system comprised of 36 IBM Blade servers, a Hitachi 64TB SAN, a Data Domain backup suite and connection devices. I run Windows 2003 R2 (32bit) and Red Hat 4 (64bit). I have just come across a problem in that all the windows blades in one (of three) chassis are displaying my drive E: (which is/was a “Partition Basic NTFS” mount on the SAN) as a “spanned Dynamic” disk. This occurred to all the SAN mounts on this specific chassis at the same time. No one switched the disk format; it occurred just after updating the firmware on a Cisco MDS switch, though for the life of me I cannot see a correlation. I cannot have a non-fault tolerance mount with the data I am administering. Has anyone seen this before or can explain how this occurred? Does anyone know of a way to convert from Dynamic spanned back to a basic disk mount without losing data? Thanx.

Blades vs. rack servers for virtualization platform

ITKE — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:56:30 +0000

Do you use blades or rack servers as a virtualization platform, or do you not have a standard platform? What justified your decision?

Best OS for blade server with 24 Gb RAM

VinitKini — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:55:58 +0000

Hi,

We have purchased Dell blade servers with quad code dual CPU and 24 GB of RAM. We also purchase 3 TB SAN BOX.

Want to know what is the best OS that should be setup as host OS on the blade so we can utilise all 24 GB RAM for hosting multiple VM’s