User's Manual
Contents 6
Maintenance and troubleshooting ............................................................................................... 281
Domain Status summary ......................................................................................................................... 281
Status icon definitions .................................................................................................................. 281
Domain Status screen ............................................................................................................................. 282
Module status definitions and causes ....................................................................................................... 283
Export support information ...................................................................................................................... 284
Error message resources ......................................................................................................................... 284
Reset Virtual Connect Manager ............................................................................................................... 285
Recovering remote enclosures ....................................................................................................... 285
Server profile troubleshooting ................................................................................................................. 285
Server blade power on and power off guidelines............................................................................. 286
Additional information ........................................................................................................................... 288
Appendix A: Using Virtual Connect with nPartitions ...................................................................... 289
Understanding nPartitions ....................................................................................................................... 289
Assigning a VC profile to an nPar ........................................................................................................... 290
Mapping profile connections ......................................................................................................... 290
Reconfiguring nPars ............................................................................................................................... 290
Appendix B: Auto-deployment process ........................................................................................ 292
Overview of the auto deployment process ................................................................................................ 292
DHCP server configuration ............................................................................................................ 292
TFTP server ................................................................................................................................. 294
Importing the enclosure into the domain ................................................................................................... 295
Auto-deployment settings after enclosure import ............................................................................... 296
Starting a deployment operation ............................................................................................................. 296
Viewing deployment information, status, and logs ..................................................................................... 297
The deployment status .................................................................................................................. 298
The deployment log ..................................................................................................................... 300
The deployment configuration file .................................................................................................. 300
Configuration file output ............................................................................................................... 301
Manual TFTP settings ............................................................................................................................. 301
Stopping a deployment operation ............................................................................................................ 302
Subsequent deployments (redeployment scenarios) .................................................................................... 302
VC GUI auto-deployment status and settings ............................................................................................. 303
Deployment wait and retry states ............................................................................................................. 303
Waiting for DHCP ....................................................................................................................... 303
Waiting for TFTP ......................................................................................................................... 304
Failed to configure domain ........................................................................................................... 304
Triggering a restart of the deployment process ................................................................................ 304
Configuring file restrictions ..................................................................................................................... 304
TFTP logging and enablement ................................................................................................................. 305
Deployment files logged to the TFTP server ...................................................................................... 305
Appendix C: Using IPv6 with Virtual Connect ............................................................................... 306
Minimum requirements to support IPv6 ..................................................................................................... 306
IPv6 addresses in VC ............................................................................................................................. 306
Link Local Address ....................................................................................................................... 306
DHCPv6 address ......................................................................................................................... 307
EBIPAv6 address ......................................................................................................................... 307
Router advertisement-based addresses ............................................................................................ 307
Domain static addressing ............................................................................................................. 307
Enabling IPv6 support ............................................................................................................................ 308
New installation .......................................................................................................................... 308