Ended up restoring a backup to an old deprecated Sun ESXi box that this server replaced. The internal array is a data-only datastore and not bootable, and without the ability to boot anything externally via USB (DVD or Stick or anything via USB or SD) we're stuck. Nope, hangs on loading SPP (yes, the correct one for G8. It's pretty frustrating to not have keyboard control!įigure maybe if we can get SPP installed, may there's a bulletin that addressed this issue. Do the switch 6 reset again, USB doesn't come back. Got it working, sees the SD card, but ESXi has an error, no problem, go to re-install ESXi, it hangs loading the installer. We end up doing the NVRAM (switch 6) reset, which gets the keyboard working again painfully waiting for the boot every time. This is where I start freaking out a little. Try to connect with putty, can't connect. I jump onto iLo from a browser, connection refused. Rebooted again (they were painful as they were taking 5+ minutes to get to actual boot).
We only had the base warranty with this particular unit, and it had expired just months before. Tried a USB keyboard I had laying around, nothing. When we rebooted to start the SPP, it wouldn't recognize the console's keyboard. It worked this way for several months without issue, until the day came where we came to do the SPP maintenance. I got a notification that the SD card was disconnected in vSphere, something I wasn't too worried about since ESXi was still working and the SD cards are relatively disposable. Had a really frustrating experience with our 3.5 year-old D元60 Gen8.
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