I have eight (8) 2.5" hot swap drive bays available, 7 if I reserve one for a standalone boot drive. This setup will give me 80 physical cores across 8 processors, 512GB of RAM, running Centos 6.8. It is to be used for engineering simulation calculations requiring an SMP configuration, as opposed to a distributed-memory setup like a traditional cluster. I am looking at purchasing a used HP DL980 G7 server with 8 10-core E7-4780 processors. Is there a way like on common AT power sources that just short-circuiting the green black wire turns on the power source? My question is how to I test the backplane? To see what’s dead, the backplane or the motherboard? On the power backplane I only have the pink wire outputting 12V, all others doesn’t output anything. ![]() The two power supplies are working I think, I found that short-circuiting pin 1 and 3 off the power supply gives me 12v output on both power supplies. I have tried\checked the following options: I have the motherboard with the minimum configuration, only one DIMM and I only have connected the system power connector, the power supply connector from the backplane and the front panel led board connector. When I tried to power on the server it won’t turn on, I have no leds on at all, all is off (power supplies, power backplane, motherboard, front panel are all off) Steps Taken: Removed faulty drive in Bay 7 and replaced with same drive (no server shutdown/reboot/array reconfiguration required)Įnd Result: The controller automatically reconfigured everything to it's original configuration (Bay 7 rebuilt and became an active drive, Bay 8 drive returned to "Hot Spare") ILO-and-Smart-Array-following-drive-.Yesterday, I had to power off our server because of maintenance of the electric grid, ups was getting empty. The Hard Drive in Bay 8 was configured as a “Hot Spare” Hard Drives in Bays 1 -7 (each 1 TB in size) were assigned to the Array. I've been monitoring the drives using the ILO 2. The drive in Bay 8 reverted back to being the "hot spare" drive. It automatically rebuilt and became an active drive. The replacement drive in Bay 7 did not become the new "hot spare". I would like to clarify that the Raid Controller automatically reverted to it's original configuration (see below). Paul, thank you for the links you provided above. Will the RAID Controller keep Bay 8 as an "active" drive in the arrayīased upon the info provided, I'm basically trying to determineġ) What's the "best practice" on how/when to add the replacement drive into Bay 7Ģ) What actions will automatically happen when the replacement drive is inserted into Bay 7 (What would the RAID controller do?)ģ) Do I need to reboot the server and make changes in P410i ORAC to get a similar setup as before (seven "active" drives in the array and one hot spare) Will the RAID controller automatically configure Bay 7 as the "hot spare" This is a production environment so I can't shutdown/reboot the server until this weekend.Ĭan I just insert the replacement drive into Bay 7 while the server is running? ![]() ![]() The office believes the drive in Bay 8 was configured as a "hot spare" and automatically rebuilt (I see activity/green blinking light on the drive) when Bay 7 failed.Ī replacement HP drive (same part #/size) has been ordered. The drive in Bay 7 has recently failed (Red amber light). Bay's 1 - 8 have: HP 1 TB drives inserted I'm helping an office and they have the following configuration:ĭrive configuration: 8 drives. Hello, I was wondering if I could get some feedback/suggestions regarding a failed RAID hard drive.
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