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Total meltdown on PE M905
Last Thursday we had a total frying of all hardware components on an M905. It was an ESX Host with about 10 VM's on it.
We got no alerts from SCOM to indicate a problem. We looked at the Virtual Centre logs and nothing showed up
Ditto for the CMC logs....nothing.
OMSA on the VM's...nothing.
Are there any know issues for Voltage/Power on these boxes?
If the DELL CMC can't log failures correctly, is there something better that can?
Thx,
John Bradshaw
Thx Jeff
We didn't want to be dependent on the host OS as next year for the ESX hosts, I'm told there won't be any OS. hence we wnat to be able to monitor from the CMC only.
As to the power, since none of the other servers in the chassis were a problem, whch I thought would be the case if there was a generic power surge, then I'm supposing that the issue we saw was a one-off server failure or a slot failure in the chassis.
But the real bug to us, is that we couldn't get any information from the systems as to what happened.
Can we get comprehensive monitoring via the CMC? Is there a trick to it?
Thx,
John Bradshaw
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Posted February 16th, 2010 16:00
Thanks for posting! Installing OMSA on the VMs won't do you any good, you need OpenManage Server Administrator on the host OS to talk to the hardware. Was it an internal problem that fried the server, or do you think maybe it was something external like a power surge the UPS couldn't stop?