HP Visio Stencils

If you've ever gone looking for Visio stencils for HP ProLiant or StorageWorks, here is the place.

The logical layouts are very useful for configurations, since it gives you all the part number options. I use these stencils all the time when I am laying out a new server or storage solution to make sure I don't miss something.

They also make for a visually appealing layout that helps you sell the solution; doing a layout means you've actually thought it out!

HP ProLiant BL GbE2 Default Password

I always tend to forget the default passwords for different gear, probably because they are all over the place, even with the same vendor.

For future reference, the default admin username and password for the GbE2 Switch Interconnect on HP Blade System is admin/admin. Also, the admin guide is located here.

Which port goes to which blade?

I do a lot of work with HP p-Class blades. For the most part, they are great to work with, but one of the most annoying things about them is that when you use the half-height blades, figuring out which network port goes to which server is SUPREMELY annoying.

So, I went out and grabbed the 17 page document on which port goes where and managed to distill it down to this picture.

Simply put, the top blade is on the left port and the bottom blade is on the right port. And PXE is serviced by the ports on the right (A side) interconnect.

Easy enough.

PXE-E55: ProxyDHCP service did not reply to request on port 4011

I was working on a client’s server today and trying to get HP’s Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP) to connect to a blade for imaging.

The PXE boot environment kept recycling and I couldn’t figure out why until I managed to snag a screen capture of the error.



I did a little bit of digging and found this article on Microsoft’s site.

• PXE clients computers do not start when you configure the DHCP server to use options 60, 66, 67

While it didn’t help me exactly, since the PXE server was on the same server as the DHCP service, it did lead me to the right answer.

The Altiris PXE Server was set to manual and wasn’t started. I should have checked that first, but live and learn.