Solved: B200 M4 Blade Server stuck in Discover state

brhong · ‎07-29-2016

Hi Experts,

I have a B200 M4 blade server, it was working fine. I replaced the local disk and de-associate the service profile, then the server stuck in Discover state. Please see the attached screen shoot. The following steps I tried:

1) Put the blade in mtce mode, and unseat it

2) Put the blade in another slot

3) Upgrade the firmware to newer version

I have no luck in bringing the blade server back to service. Any ideas to try next?

Thanks,

Braven

Kirk J · ‎07-29-2016

Greetings.

Please confirm the current CIMC, BIOS and board controller firmware versions.

Also the CPU PIDs/model numbers.

Want to make sure we don't have some kind of bios/CPU incompatibility thing going on.

Also, maybe try doing a 'reset CMOS' and recover corrupt bios' from the 'recovery' server context in Equipment view.

Would really need to look at the logs to see what is causing the server to timeout at post time.

Do the SEL logs show anything of interest?

Please confirm you have tried discovery without the local disks present....

Thanks,

Kirk...

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Kirk J · ‎07-29-2016

Greetings.

Please confirm the current CIMC, BIOS and board controller firmware versions.

Also the CPU PIDs/model numbers.

Want to make sure we don't have some kind of bios/CPU incompatibility thing going on.

Also, maybe try doing a 'reset CMOS' and recover corrupt bios' from the 'recovery' server context in Equipment view.

Would really need to look at the logs to see what is causing the server to timeout at post time.

Do the SEL logs show anything of interest?

Please confirm you have tried discovery without the local disks present....

Thanks,

Kirk...

brhong · ‎07-29-2016

Hi Kirk,

The following is the firmware version:

CMIC: 2.2(3f)

BIOS: B200M4.2.2.3d.0.111420141438

Board controller: 10.0

CPU: E5-2660v3,UCS-CPU-E52660D

Will try the steps you suggest now.

Thanks,

Braven

Walter Dey · ‎07-29-2016

Hi Braven

Could it be, that you have Host Firmware Packages ! with you service profile, as well as default !

It could have changed the firmware (bios, cimc,....) while you were deassocitating the SP !

Walter.

PS. my 2c: I had a lot of trouble with 2.2.3d release ! would highly recommend to get rid of it as quickly as possible.

brhong · ‎07-29-2016

Hey Walter,

Which version you will go? I am trying to upgrade to 2.2.3k which is the latest, but it seems BIOS version is the same.

Thanks,

Braven

Walter Dey · ‎08-01-2016

Hi Braven

2.2.6 or newer !

Walter.

brhong · ‎07-29-2016

Hi Kirk,

Without local disk present, the blade server can be discovered successfully. Then I insert a new disk, it's fine now.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Braven