[bbb08]

hi! has anyone experienced a start-up of the p595 that takes 1 hour? a friend of mine has asked me this but i do not have a p595 (or even a 590) so i cannot answer him. maybe anyone of you can help.

he said that when he powered on the machine, it took a total of 1 hour for the machine and all partitions to start-up (they only have 2 LPARs in their system).

is this normal?

[ross.mather]

That would seem to be about right to me. When you power on the box it does a full hardware check so dependent on the amount of hardware the start up time of the box can be rather long.

[DMWells]

Hey, I manage 7 p595 squadrons and they are all different. For the most part, the startup time depends on the amount of I/O you have installed. Two of mine are 3 frame p595's with 64 hba, 64 nic, about 20 internal HDD, dual power systems and I think 10 d20 I/O drawers. These servers take about 90 minutes just to initialise the hardware, not including starting any LPAR's. So tell your friend that this is normal and take a good book and a really large coffee with him each time he needs a restart

[Asker]

Oh, nightmare.
My customer has 03 p595 with 16 NICs, 12 HBAs each and it takes 35 mins to start full system.
Anyway your friend's system is normal with that booting time

[cdelgadop]

Hi

Yes. In the old days of the Regatta p690 they took about an hour to start from power up. Newest p595 that share some of the same technology like IO Drawers and PCI adapters in the rear part can take that amount of time (and even more) when starting from power on up to activating each LPAR. If your LPARs have SAN connections it can take a long time to check every path. What i have done sometimes when troubleshooting is to disconnect Fibre Channel adapters to speed up the startup.

So unless some error messages are logged, your p595 is taking what it needs to start.

Want to help in the startup process ??. Maybe some reordering or the LPAR startup secuence having in account the ammount of desired memory in the default profile might help.

Hope this helps