ESXi Power consumption graph

Dr. Pain · 12 Aug 2011 at 17:56

So..

Has anyone got this working in their proliant servers?

I have some ML110 G6 machines, and ESXi just reports the power consumption as 0w constantly.

Anyone know what might be the matter?

Just a lack of sensors on the servers?

HarryPainful · 12 Aug 2011 at 18:10

Lack of sensors I would imagine, I have it running on a few DL380 G7s at work and it shows the usage.

nate922 · 12 Aug 2011 at 19:30

You have to load appropriate add ons for the hardware used.

ThomP · 14 Aug 2011 at 09:21

What build of ESXi are you running?

Dr. Pain · 14 Aug 2011 at 18:41

The very latest build of Esxi 4.1 build 348481.

#Chri5# · 14 Aug 2011 at 20:35

HP do a pre-packaged version of ESXi which includes the CIM providers to report hardware status. Not sure how you introduce the CIMs to an existing install. There's possible some information here but I'm not sure HP offer CIMs for the ML110 as official ESXi support starts at the DL360 IIRC.

ThomP · 15 Aug 2011 at 11:54

HI,

It should be possible even if its officially unsupported.

I remember my PE2950 wouldn't supply power usage information & officially it wasn't supported at the time. I edited a particular file via tech support mode & this enabled it... just trying to find the details....

Dr. Pain · 15 Aug 2011 at 13:15

Well I installed the HP Esxi Offline Bundle, and it Purple Screened.

lol.

Im starting to wonder if the ML110 has a power sensor, as looking at the ILO web interface, there isnt a reading for power consumption....

ThomP · 15 Aug 2011 at 13:23

I know with my PE2950 it was possible to view power usage via the drac5 interface and the file i edited inside of esxi was to map the sensor that provides power usage information...

Lithium · 15 Aug 2011 at 19:58

ML110 is super basic. It's as much a server as an ipod is a media center.

So I would imagine it doesn't have the full suite of diagnostics as the higher end kit.

Dr. Pain · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:28

Lithium said:
ML110 is super basic. It's as much a server as an ipod is a media center.

So I would imagine it doesn't have the full suite of diagnostics as the higher end kit.

Well mine are Quad Core Xeons, with 16GB RAM, hyperthreading, and full ILO 100i functionality. (remote KVM and virtual media).

I would say thats as server-ish as you can get really, without spending mega money.

This is a home setup, not production.

#Chri5# · 16 Aug 2011 at 08:47

Dr. Pain said:
Well mine are Quad Core Xeons, with 16GB RAM, hyperthreading, and full ILO 100i functionality. (remote KVM and virtual media).

I would say thats as server-ish as you can get really, without spending mega money.

This is a home setup, not production.

It's not a 300 series ProLiant though, which is where HP put all the really nice features. HP's official support matrix for VMware only has support for ESX on 100 series ProLiants.

Lithium · 16 Aug 2011 at 09:28

Dr. Pain said:
Well mine are Quad Core Xeons, with 16GB RAM, hyperthreading, and full ILO 100i functionality. (remote KVM and virtual media).

I would say thats as server-ish as you can get really, without spending mega money.

This is a home setup, not production.

Granted it's just got a quad core with lots of ram mate but so do most people's PC's here. Look inside it's basically a desktop, PSU etc.. all desktop type stuff.

Not having a dig, I'm just pointing out that in comparison to the enterprise proliant stuff it probably isn't as full featured in that regard.

I imagine the PSU would have to have some additional circuitry inside to measure the power, which is why HP psu's cost £300 or some thing silly for the rackmount kit.

Dr. Pain · 16 Aug 2011 at 16:16

Ah yes, the PSA bus or whatever they call it....

Same with the redundant PSU's on SAN's