s8730 Power supplies 1

[wildcard100001]

My master pair servers (s8730's) have single power supplies in each. I've purchased additional power supplies so that they'll have dual power supplies. Is this service affecting? Can I simply insert them?



Thanks,

Wildcard

 

[Mitch672]

you can insert them while the system is on, they are designed to be hot swappable. It is not service affecting.



Mitch

AVAYA Certified Expert

 

[wildcard100001]

Many thanks Mitch - a rock star for you. I figured that was the case. Here was Avaya’s lame T1 response:

Yes, if you have duplicated servers. You will have to interchange and could be service affecting. I would add power to the standby server first then interchange to the active and make the standby active and then add power to the new standby server
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It's a painful amount of red tape to do a simple interchange in my organization. I only do them if I absolutely have to.

Thanks again,

Wildcard

 

[AvayaPBXengineer]

Wildcard the people at Avaya have probably got confused thinking you were just replacing single power supplies. As the document they were reading from was probably this :

Job Aids for Field Replacement Units (FRUs) for the Avaya S8700 Series Servers

Page 187 mentions the process of interchanging etc which they recommended.

 

[wildcard100001]

Hey thanks I bet you are correct.

Indeed the secondary power supplies were inserted without issue. Maintenance pages reflected the new hardware as well.

Wildcard

 

[SWITCHDOG]

Wildcard,
Do you have an HP part number or Avaya for the power supply?

 

[wildcard100001]

I don't the HP part number but the material code for Avaya is 700445802. If I'm not mistaken the servers are HP DL385.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong..

Wildcard

 

[gblucas]

If Avaya would also support that configuration on the S8720, that would be great...It is just not so...'

gblucas

 

[AvayaTier3]

If you want to determine (or confirm) the type of server you're logged into, you
can execute the CLI command, "grep ServerType /etc/ecs.conf", and the values you
can see decode as follows:


dl380g3 = S8710
dl385g1 = S8720
dl385g2 = S8730


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[techma1]

does anyone have a picture of this power supply? I'm trying to find one that was shipped to me by accident and nobody knows what it looks like. I don't have the server at my location....