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.