Month: December 2014

2014 in review

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Emulex OneConnect initialization failed

I have a HP Proliant BL685C G7 and both network interfaces are missing.

Rebooted the server and it showed some messages from the network card

be2net 0000:05:00.0 Waiting for POST, 58s elapsed
be2net 0000:05:00.0 POST timeout; stage=0xb00
be2net 0000:05:00.0 PCI INT A disabled
be2net 0000:05:00.0 Emulex OneConnect initialization failed
be2net: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [I031] enabled at IRQ 29

According to this document HP Store All Storage – Interface ETH 4 and ETH 5 are Missing it is a physical hardware failure and you need to contact HP – even though that the affected equipment is a storage I believe it is the same case with the server.

There is also another document be2net Driver Fails to Initialize where it shows that the NIC fails to initiate and asks you to update to update to a newer kernel or upgrade the NIC firmware. In this case the server’s OS was upgraded recently and firmware updated.

be2net 0000:10:00.0: Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps NIC initialization failed
be2net: probe of 0000:10:00.0 failed with error -1

hpacucli takes a long time to respond

If run hpacucli and your server is taking a long time to respond, it is because HP decided to change the hpacucli utility to scan multiple LUNs connected via Fibre or iSCSI storage

root@linux:~ # time hpacucli ctrl all show config

Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: 500143801176C960)

array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)

logicaldrive 1 (136.7 GB, RAID 1, OK)

physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 500143801176C96F)

real 2m25.058s
user 0m0.083s
sys 0m0.071s

Type INFOMGR_BYPASS_NONSA=1 to disable the scan hpacucli. To reenable type export -n INFOMGR_BYPASS_NONSA

root@linux:~# export INFOMGR_BYPASS_NONSA=1
root@linux:~# time hpacucli ctrl all show config

Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: 50014380226F2BA0)

array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)

logicaldrive 1 (279.4 GB, RAID 1, OK)

physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 300 GB, OK)

SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 50014380226F2BAF)

real 0m0.931s
user 0m0.130s
sys 0m0.167s

Source: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03696601