VMware Communities: Message List - HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 -

alkfung — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:03:26 GMT

You're going to have to be more specific with the Mezzanine cards. You may have to install using the U3 or at least upgade it to U3, see here: http://vmware.com/download/vi/

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 -

ocean27 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:36:56 GMT

anybody installed esx 3.5 update 2 on BL495c g5 wihout any network issues please lete me know .

i have issues with nics on the server , even my network guys tell me that port is open i cannot ping to any server or even the gateway .

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

ocean27 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:20:05 GMT

hi i installed vmware esx 3.5 up2 on hp bl495c g5 , how can i configure Mezzanine nics .

I am unable to connect to service console .Any help will be appreciated

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

alkfung — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:07:35 GMT

Not sure why they removed the RAID, but if you use it for ESX it shouldn't be a problem if you have your cluster built correctly. If one of the blades SSD fails, the others in the cluster should be able to pick up the slack.

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

ncarde — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:23:46 GMT

I heard that the 490/495 removed Hardware RAID capability for local disk (in order to make room in a 1/2 height blade for more memory (dimms) capability).

Non-issue if you run 3i with custom monitoring and no guest Backup presence I guess but seems pretty silly to put RAID overhead on Software, no?

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

rfk1O21 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:16:03 GMT

VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 3 supports the HP BL495.

HP BL495c support - This release adds support for the HP Blade Server BL495c with all Virtual Connect and IO Options allowing 1 or 10Gb connection to the network (upstream) and 1Gb connections only to the servers (downstream).
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35u3_rel_notes.html

Re: HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

Texiwill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:19:46 GMT

Hello,

1) The drivers do not recognize the 10G NIC, which is a Broadcom Netextreme II, Model NC532i. I had to use an NC373 mezzanine.

If the NIC is not on the HCL, it will not have a driver.

2) Memory (this was the killer). After installing, it would throw up a code that it could not initialize the VMKernel on bootup. Memory related issue. Here are the tested methods I had to actually get it to initialize properly.

a. 8 x 4GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.

b. 8 x 8GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.

Interesting.

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HP BL495c G5 blade with ESX 3.5 U2 - Memory and NIC Issues - Memory Resolved

alkfung — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:36:02 GMT

Sooo, a virtualization blade that is not officially supported on the HCL for VMWare....

It's a great blade, but two things:

1) The drivers do not recognize the 10G NIC, which is a Broadcom Netextreme II, Model NC532i. I had to use an NC373 mezzanine.

a. 8 x 4GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.

b. 8 x 8GB Memory modules populating the right banks. AND 2 x 2GB memory modules on the first two slots on the left bank.

If anyone can figure out the NIC issue, please let me know!