Hello, I recently received a NAF-1603 AFF-A700S from a different department, and im trying to set it up for our use. When it boots i can SSH into BMC but its password protected. No a activity on e0M. And if I console in, I dont get anything unless I hit ctrl-g which gets me the startup console and login for BMC which I dont have. I was told it would boot into LOADER, but i haven't gotten that to happen. Anyone have any tips or tricks to get this thing going again?
#NetApp AFF-A700S console only shows BMC
golden tiger
upbeat island
You need to have the serial connected while powering up the system... you shuld be able to press "CTRL-C" to get into the BIOS or the boot menu... from there you should be able to setup the system from scratch... be sure to have some licenses, because if you don't you will not be able to use to system for much as almost everything is enabled by entering licenses or uploading a license file...
You need to connect an RJ45 serial cable to the port on each controller... without a password I don't think you can do much from the BMC... once you have re-installed the system and set a password, it will be transfered to the BMC and you can use it... you need to do this from first controller A (the top one) and create the cluster... then you can do the same with the controller B and join contoller A's cluster...
wary minnow
I am positive this is a high-line power device (confirmed in hwu). So if you are using standard outlets the bmc may work but the system will refuse to boot
Must be connected to 220v power and not 110v
golden tiger
Thanks for the feed back @upbeat island this is how I tried to set it up, but CTRL-C didn't do anything, serial terminal stayed blank, I tried ctrl-g and got the BMC boot up, otherwise I thought I had a bad cable.
@wary minnow I think you are on to something, I didn't even thing about how they were ran at 208V in the datacenter. With the powersupplies taking 110V-220V I assumed it would just pull more current, but it takes the power supplies from 1000W to 1600W. thanks for the tip. I'll see if I can get it to post on the high voltage.
wary minnow
Thanks for the feed back <@743120101942886442> this is how I tried to set it up,...
I know you meant to say high line power. Technically 110/220 are both high voltage 🤓
upbeat island
Maybe it is possible to get one controller going by installing two PSU's in it and feed it 2 x 110V? Not sure... Here in Europe we don't have to deal with inferior voltages 😉
silver wigeon
Maybe it is possible to get one controller going by installing two PSU's in it a...
"real men use 240V outlets" 😄