freebsd-proliant Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5

[Greg Eden]

> My question is, is there anything on the os and software level that  
> could
> cause this behavior? or is it most likely bad hardware? I am concerned
> because I noted an instance of the same error in the ilo logs of  
> our other
> dl380, although on module 1, and i thought that the odds of both  
> having
> bad ram/boards might be slim.

Sadly not as slim as you'd like or hope. I had 3 DL360s and a DL380  
delivered last year. One DL360 had bad EEC RAM (was reported in logs  
fortunately). Another DL360 had a dodgy SCSI backplace which meant  
drives would go missing. So that was 2 out of 4 delivered faulty.

Having said that HP dealt with the faults quickly and sent advance  
replacements swiftly. And once running the machines have had up times  
of 6 months+, limited only by reboots for maintenance. Which is why I  
bought them :)

best.
greg.