Issue with Cisco Catalyst Switch in IBM Blade Center
Hi All: Have you seen issues with Cisco Catalyst Switch in the IBM Blade Center that causes all the other Cards in the Blade Center to be partially responsive. All the Servers were responding to pings 50% of the time with some pings getting back invalid responses like the one below: 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.506 ms wrong data byte #32 should be 0x20 but was 0xc0 #8 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f c0 9 80 d 29 25 26 27 #40 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Ujjval Karihaloo VP Voice Engineering IP Phone: +13032428610 E-Fax: +17202391690 SimpleSignal Inc. 88 Inverness Circle East Suite K105 Englewood, CO 80112 [cid:image001.jpg at 01CA6DC4.1A438290]<http://www.simplesignal.com/>
On 11/25/09 11:43 AM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
Hi All:
Have you seen issues with Cisco Catalyst Switch in the IBM Blade Center that causes all the other Cards in the Blade Center to be partially responsive. All the Servers were responding to pings 50% of the time with some pings getting back invalid responses like the one below:
I'm not familiar with the IBM, but use a Dell blade system with Cisco Catalyst 5316M switches in it, and have seen a similar issue. Is this also a 5316M switch? -- Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 Advanced phone services simplified
How often does the issue occur ? I will confirm the switch model. The switch seemed really bogged down and slow in responding to commands on the login session and once we rebooted it, the issue cleared away. Ujjval Karihaloo VP Voice Engineering IP Phone: +13032428610 E-Fax: +17202391690 SimpleSignal Inc. 88 Inverness Circle East Suite K105 Englewood, CO? 80112 -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Alvarez Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:23 PM Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Issue with Cisco Catalyst Switch in IBM Blade Center On 11/25/09 11:43 AM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
Hi All:
Have you seen issues with Cisco Catalyst Switch in the IBM Blade Center that causes all the other Cards in the Blade Center to be partially responsive. All the Servers were responding to pings 50% of the time with some pings getting back invalid responses like the one below:
I'm not familiar with the IBM, but use a Dell blade system with Cisco Catalyst 5316M switches in it, and have seen a similar issue. Is this also a 5316M switch? -- Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 Advanced phone services simplified _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
Cisco Catalyst Switch Model is - OS-CIGESM-18TT-E Ujjval Karihaloo VP Voice Engineering IP Phone: +13032428610 E-Fax: +17202391690 SimpleSignal Inc. 88 Inverness Circle East Suite K105 Englewood, CO? 80112 -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Ujjval Karihaloo Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:32 PM To: Carlos Alvarez Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Issue with Cisco Catalyst Switch in IBM Blade Center How often does the issue occur ? I will confirm the switch model. The switch seemed really bogged down and slow in responding to commands on the login session and once we rebooted it, the issue cleared away. Ujjval Karihaloo VP Voice Engineering IP Phone: +13032428610 E-Fax: +17202391690 SimpleSignal Inc. 88 Inverness Circle East Suite K105 Englewood, CO? 80112 -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Alvarez Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:23 PM Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Issue with Cisco Catalyst Switch in IBM Blade Center On 11/25/09 11:43 AM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
Hi All:
Have you seen issues with Cisco Catalyst Switch in the IBM Blade Center that causes all the other Cards in the Blade Center to be partially responsive. All the Servers were responding to pings 50% of the time with some pings getting back invalid responses like the one below:
I'm not familiar with the IBM, but use a Dell blade system with Cisco Catalyst 5316M switches in it, and have seen a similar issue. Is this also a 5316M switch? -- Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 Advanced phone services simplified _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
On 11/25/09 12:32 PM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
How often does the issue occur ?
It was 100% of the time with one model of blade server in the chassis, and never with another (older) model. Dell was never able to get it straightened out. They wanted us to do things that had significant downtime and risk, and we couldn't do it on a production chassis, so we simply stopped using the more modern blades. I should add that the same switch lost all of its settings and was replaced during a system shutdown/restart. It may have been a defective switch. Being a production system my ability to troubleshoot is limited, so I just stuck in a replacement we had on hand for such eventualities. -- Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 Advanced phone services simplified
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