Hi to all and sorry for my english,
Our server:
3 x DL 380 G5 (2 x E5440, No HDD, 4 NIC, 24 GB Ram) with Esx 5.5 boot from USB key and iSCSI target as storage.
Our step:
Server 1: Update with firmware DVD 2014.02.0 - All OK and server work fine
Server 2: Update as for Server 1.
All update OK but server does not restart automatically at the end of update.
Black screen.
Nothing change if power off with button.
Only after remove both power cord, it start but with a strange issue.
During post message, normally it need 5 or 6 seconds between ROM information text and ILO information text.
Now it need about 1 minute!
After this delay, server boot and work without any issue.
Opening vSphere Client, the second strange issue: Hardware monitoring not work. It report "hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available"
Excluding these two strange issue, all work fine.
Server 3: All happened exactly as for server 2.
Nothing change updating with firmware DVD 2014.02.0 (B) and updating Esxi to 5.5.0 U1
As already say, i follow same steps on all 3 server.
Therefore, i think that during delay in boot, "something" not reply fine to check and this "something" is what is wanted by vSphere hardware check.
What i can check to find the issue?
Thanks in advanced for any help
Kind regards.
Massimo