I have a C3000 with 2 hp 1/10GB VC-Net module in my test lab. The VC configuration currently is passthrough. I want to try to configure Virtual connect.
In the first time start up wizard, it mention the VC is disabled and both VC module does not have url management and IP.
How to enable the VC and configure the VC IP?
hello everyone,
I am trying to script an audit of some older Flex-10 VC's using the CLI, and need to produce a list of which VLANs arre configured on each NIC in each server profile, and the speed set for the NIC
I've had some success with:
Show profile profilename to show which ports have profiles assigned
show enet-connection Profile_Blade_16 to get the Speed etc
But as all our profiles have multiple VLANs setup, I can't quite see how to drill down into that. I am trying to produce a script that can check 50 Hosts and check they have the same Profile, VLAN & Speed assignments.. thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
I also wondered if Powershell was available for the older firmware, or if this was only for One View?
Many thanks,
Dave
Hi... i need any recomendation in this community a but the Virtual Connect upgrade
i have a 4 VC :
- In bay 1, 2 is a HP VC Flex-10 Enet Module
- In bay 3,4 HP VC 8Gb 24-Port FC Module
The Virtual Connect manager version is 2.33 and i need upgrade to the 4.50 version.
is pissble upgrade from the 2.33 version to 4.50 version or is necessary upgrade to previous version first?
regards
Hi... i need any recomendation in this community a but the Virtual Connect upgrade
i have a 4 VC :
- In bay 1, 2 is a HP VC Flex-10 Enet Module
- In bay 3,4 HP VC 8Gb 24-Port FC Module
The Virtual Connect manager version is 2.33 and i need upgrade to the 4.50 version.
is pissble upgrade from the 2.33 version to 4.50 version or is necessary upgrade to previous version first?
regards
Hi everyone,
IHAC is using RX9900 blade(with two 10Gb/24 FlexFabric VC module) to direct-attach to 4-node 3par 8400. And I have a question about the cabling between the VC and 3par nodes.
I have two plans, not sure which one is supported and recommended. Thanks for the help!
Plan A,
Plan B,
Hello All,
My business is using an HP C7000 enclosure. We had an ethernet mezzanine module fail last week which caused our entire production network to go down. Through the process of attempting to resolve this issue I ran into some issues with Virtual Connect Manager. After replacing the failed mezzanine module I logged into the VCM. The first problem that I ran into was the "Loading Libraries 4%" issue. Which I resolved with the following post:
However after resolving the 'loading libraries' issue the VCM is broken. When I click on various configuration settings within VCM the WebUI returns blank white space within the framework of the web interface.. There is also no drop down menu along the left hand side of the UI.
I have been tasked with getting this C7000 enclosure working again until we can allocate budget to our Co-Location for new hardware. Has anyone seen this problem before? Or have any recommendations to get VCM's WebUI functioning again?
Outside of the VCM WebUI I do have CLI access to VCM for this enclosure however the CLI is not very intuitive. Ultimately what I need to do is get this new (identical) ethernet mezzanine module functioning again. If I must use the CLI at this point what commands would I run to configure the new mezzanine card? I can review the configuration settings of the enclosure within Onboard Administrator. I just can't make changes within VCM.
Can someone please help me with this situation?
Thanks!
We plan to buy a 571956-B21 FlexFabric 10Gb/24.:
Our network infrastructure in housing center with more rooms supports only singlemode connections.
Is it possible to use an 1000Base LX SFP Transceiver?
The Comptibility list shows only
1G SFP SX Transceiver 453151-B21 for 1GE optical connections.
Can we use any 3rd Party SFP (Cisco,Juniper)?
Many thanks for considering my request.
We are using Brocade switch with FOS 8.x . Where can i find the minimum code level for Virtual connect switch for this brocade code level
thanks
Bonjour,
Mon serveur blades comporte 5 modules (serveurs) et deux modules d'interconnexions.
J'ai configuré mon blade serveur et préparé trois serveurs en "core' ,sur ceux-ci afin de construire un cluster.
La communication semble correcte au niveau des V-Lans et tout semble fonctionnel.
Mon profile de serveur est unique avec un Trunk.
Je suis rendu à l'étape de configuration des baies d'interconnexions. Ces deux baies sont connectées et adressées. Elles sont aussi visible avec les outils pour manager mais la redondance entre les deux n'existe pas.
Je ne trouve nulle part une documentation avec des instructions pour configurer cette redondance donnant de la High Avaibility...
Auriez-vous des informations pouvant m'aider svp ?
My blade server as 5 modules servers and 2 interconnexions bays.
I did the configuration and made 3 core servers to be able to make a cluster for Hyper-V.
All my V-Lans are looking nice and Trunk too.
The problem is that i cannot duplicate the content of the interconnection Bay 1 to the second one and i want to make them redundant for High Avaibility.
Does anybody can help me plse ?
I cannot find nothing on that...
Regards
Hello Experts,
I am deploying a new uplink X4 on HP c7000, and cannot ping any IPs in respective VLAN; on further investigation found the uplink set is in 'inked standby' state. I have verified the config & status of the Cisco Nexus switch port, its identical to another working port. LACP is not applicable in this case, as I am not performing link aggregation. Please see the connectivity overview attached.
I would like to know what does it mean by linked - standby and what are probable reasons for it? Any recommendations to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
We have two HP VC Flex-10/10D Module in our C7000 conencting ESXi hosts.
I wanted to add new VLANs to the infrastructure. Does anybody have any step by step instructions to perform this, so that I can allow the new VLANs in to the host.
Config changes to Network Access Grousp, Shared Uplink Sets, Ethernet Network and Server profile, etc. What will be order of configuration? Will it affect any production traffic, need a restart of VC or down time?
Any assitance will be much appreceated.
Kind regards,
Javeed.
Hi,
After some advice please.
Currently have an environment of virtual connect domain with two C7000 chassis with 2 x HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port interconnects in each chassis (4 in total) all within the same VC domain.
Shared Uplink Sets have been configured using 3 ports from each interconnect module.
I need to free up one of these ports on each interconnect for a different use. Can I remove a port from the active shared uplink set without impacting services which are using it?
Second question, I want to create a Ethernet network in tunnel mode using the reclaimed uplink port on each interconnect - Am I able to assign this same Ethernet network to more than one flex nic within the same Server profile?
Thanks in advance!
We are running two FlexFabric 20/40 F8 in a C7000 chassis, one for each Fabric. Currently port X1 is Fibre Ethernet and ports X5-X8 are FCoE SAN connections, connected to a Brocade switch. Each blade in the chassis is running ESXi 5.0 and if we activate all ports(X5-X8) on the chassis only host connected to X5 can see storage. If I enable only one port individually(X5 or X6 or X7 or X8), then all blades see storage on both fabrics. Even when enabling just two ports X5-X6 only storage associated with X5 will show in vsphere. Looking at the cookbook i believe only 1 FCoE pair can function in each FlexFabric(X5-X6 or X7-X8). Any suggestions?
Hey
I'm running 20 ESXi servers (Vsphere 6). 16 ESXi servers installed within C7000 enclosure with Virtual Connect stack.
Inside VC stack we are running 50 VLANs. one of these VLANs is iSCSI.
VC stack connected with 4 10G uplinks aggregated by pairs to Juniper 4550 stack. There are other ESXi servers connected to the same Juniper stack with 1GB interfaces (Dell PE630)
Question:
What should be the MTU on Juniper switches for uplink ports ? If these were dedicated ports for iSCSI VLAN, I would configure them with MTU 9000, however these are SHARED UPLINKS
Thanks
Simon
Has anyone had any issue with the SWEET32 vulnerability impacting virtual connect modules? I'm trying to find a way, if possible, to remediate the issue as my security team routinely alerts us to fix the vulnerability. I'm assuming it will have to be taken care of on a future firmware release.
Hey guys,
Pretty interesting problem here - I have two servers I need to configure, one with VMware ESXi 5.5, and the other with FreeNAS 9.10.2. I have the operating systems already installed on my two blades, and they're both configured with an IP address. (VMWare: 192.168.1.155/24 - FreeNAS: 192.168.1.105/24)
After configuring my servers, naturally I test communications between them. Here's my problem
When the VMWare server is in Bay 4 - I can ping no problem. My FreeNAS server is in bay 6. I can't seem to ping that for the life of me. So after fooling around with lots of settings and reviewing the port mapping without success, I swapped bays. Now, FreeNAS is in bay 4, and VMWare is in bay 6. As expected, I can now ping my FreeNAS server, but not my VMWare server.
After taking a close look at the port mapping information I've come to the conclusion that both bays communicate through the same port (as far as I can tell). However with that being said I'd expect to ping both machines successfully if that were the case.
I attached a photo of the port mapping information for the FreeNAS server (Bay 4) and the VMWare server (Bay 6) as well as the interconnect module's port mapping info.
Could anybody analyze and help further explain why I'm unable to ping any bay besides 4? I have plugged a wire into EVERY single port and attempted to ping my VMWare server in bay 6 with no success. Right now I have a wire plugged into ports 1 and 2 of my interconnect bay.
Thanks in advance!!!
Hi all,
I can't configure VC through Virtual connect manager of c7000 enclosure and It's showed that VC is managed by VCEM.
But I just joined this company to be a IT admin and I don't have much information about existing system.
and I have no access to VCEM
Can I disconnect VC of c7000 enclosure from VCEM???
Hi HPE Community,
I have a HP Matrix Operating Environment with 1 x HP Blade Chassis. I am running on the below versions:
1. Virtual Connect using HP VC Flex-10 Enet Module on version 3.70
2. Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager on version 7.1.1
Normally if I HTTPS into the VCM (HP VC Flex-10 Enet Module), it would always say that "VC Domain locked by Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager".
So under VCEM, under the VC Domain Group, I placed them into Maintenance Mode. Once I have placed them into Maintenance mode, I re-log into the VCM. It says that "VC Domain under maintenance by Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager". I could no longer view and modify the VCM.
Does anyone have any clues??
I'm in the process of importing several enclosures into Oneview. Prior to importing I want to make all of the VC uplinks identical. May be important to mention that all of my enclosures are their own VC domain - no enclosures linked together. One enclosure has VC ports X1 connected to our iscsi network. I need to move that to ports X8 so it matches all of the others enclosures. First I assume I will need to delete the iscsi uplink? Then just move the cable and recreate the uplink? X8 is currently assign as a Stacking Link. Will that automatically get reassigned to X1 or is there another step? Btw - all blades will be powered down while I do this.
Hello. I have issue with configure VC Enet (HP VC Flex-10 Enet Module 455880-B21) + VC FC (HP VC 8Gb 24-Port FC Module 466482-B21) and FC switches Brocade 5140. Doesn't want work properly NPIV feature on FC switch Brocade 5140. I updated firmware OA to 4.60, I installed VC Enet + VC FC and updated firmware to 4.45. Next, I configured new domain VC, created shared uplink set and FC.
Article (http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01702940) describe how to configure VC and FC switch, and must be enabled features NPIV on the switch.
On my case this features enabled by default on all ports. But on the FC switchesq I can't see WWN blade servers on a port (see attachment portshow 14.jpg). Our infrastructure has another enclosure C7000 with same interconnect module VC Enet + VC FC, and attached to the same FC switches Brocade 5140.
This enclosure work properly and I see WWN blade servers(see attachment portshow 19.jpg). Version VC 4.10
what I did to solve the issue:
1. I tried to update firmware on FC Switches 6.4.3h -> 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.2 -> 7.3.2b;
2. I tried downgrade firmware VC 4.45 -> 4.31 -> 4.10;
3. I tried downgrade firmware OA 4.60 -> 4.40;
4. Did clean configuration OA and VC, this steps it's not solved issue.
What I did wrong, how to resolve issue?
