OS Installation steps for Dell Power Edge M620 Blade Server

OS Installation steps for Dell Power Edge M620 Blade Server

Steps:

1 . First assign an OA IP to the DELL chassis. then we can able to take it as remotely.

Open Browse, Login to that chassis, using assigned IP Address . 

2. By default, the Username is root, and password is calvin. enter these credentials.

3. Then we are able to login to Chassis. Here we can see Chassis have 16 Slots, But only 1 blade severs is presented.

Here we can see all the details of chassis.

4. Select particular Blade Sever.

5. Then Click on Launch Remote Console Button on the Quick Links tab. It will prompt you to the following page.

6. click on Launch Virtual console

7. Again click on Launch Remote Console. 

8. Now we are successfully able to login to particular Blade. Then we will see , how to Install OS on this Machine.

9. We can Install OS in Number of Ways, Here we will discuss OS installation through Image File.

10. Click on Add image, and Select a image file.  Click on Mount option. then Power Tab, Reboot the server.

11. While Booting Press F10 for life Cycle controller.

12. It will prompt you to Life Cycle Controller Screen.

 13. Select OS Deployment Option.

14. Select Deploy OS Option.

15. If  we want to configure Hard Ware RAID select Configure RAID First, other wise Select OS Deployment.

16, Select The Operating System from Listed Ones

17. Select Next option 

18. click on next button.

 19. Then Click On finish Button.

20. Then System will automatically rebooted.  

21. After this select Installation, it will ask you to enter Host name and IP, Gate way,Net mask  and DNS. enter all those things. with in 40 Min OS Installation will be finished. 

Slot 0 Drive Array controller controller failure issue on HP BL460c G7 servers

Slot 0 HP Smart array P44i0 controller controller issue?

Steps to resolve:

This error is mainly due to the HDD failure issue, But we have to find defective hard disk. In this case you find any amber color indication on Hard disk also.     

If you are observing this error on HP G7 blade servers, do the following steps to resolve this issue.

1. Remove 1 HDD from slot 0 on the Blade, and try to boot with another HDD. 

2. If you are observing any error like, there is no hard disk presented in drive array  to install the OS,, then we come to know that , slot 0 hard disk failed. just remove that slot 0  hard disk and put a new hard disk in the same slot , and boot the servers again.

3. After booting , you can observe a message called, Array initialization,then it will ask you press F2 to re-enable the Drive.Press F2 it will re enabled that drive. 

4. Then go to RAID levels, just check both hard disks are detecting or not.

5. If the RAID is configured with RAID  0, Then Re install the OS.

6. If it is configured with RAID 1 , no need to install the OS, it will automatically boot from Hard disk.

6. If your not observing any error message ,after 2nd step, then slot 1 hard disk was failed. then put  new hard disk in slot 1  and do the same.