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VNX5200 SPs not booting
The SPs stop after extend POST and SP status LED will be steady blue and not booting. I have not found any issue in boot sequence.
Do you have any idea ?
kelleg
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March 29th, 2017 14:00
Recommend contacting EMC Support.
glen
EDIT (2017-03-30)
This the SP lights
The SP Fault LED is 2-color (amber/blue) LED located on the air dam of the SP. During a normal boot of the Flare Partition, the following blink rates will be seen:
Blink Rate
Color
Interpretation
¼ Hz
Amber
Power up and BIOS Initialization Phase
1 Hz
Amber
Extended POST Testing Phase
4 Hz
Amber
Operating System Boot Phase – Windows has not finished starting
¼ Hz
Blue
OS booted. SP likely pingable and/or accessible via PPP. NtMirror has exported the boot partition.
1 Hz
Blue
Flare driver start in progress
4 Hz
Blue
Flare driver start completed
Off
Boot success, ready for Flare IO – This is the normal case after booting. Flare and NDUMON have started. SP should be accessible via ping, Dial-Up Networking, or Remotely Anywhere.
The following blink rates are for special cases:
Blink Rate
Color
Interpretation
2 Hz
Amber
NMI button pressed
1 – 3 – 3 - 1
Amber
Bad DIMM detected (or Bad DIMM slot on the CPU Module)
On (solid)
Amber
CPU Module needs replacement
On (solid)
Blue
SP has booted in Degraded Mode
M.Hani
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September 20th, 2017 05:00
How we can force SP go to normal from degraded mode ?
kelleg
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September 22nd, 2017 12:00
You'll have to contact EMC Support for that.
glen