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Created: Feb 14, 2021 14:34:24Latest reply: Feb 27, 2021 00:45:51 588 9 0 0 0
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Hi,


I'm running a Hyper-V Cluster on some 2288h v5 Servers and whenever I reboot one of them the Cluster Events complains that a network is partitioned. The NICs being referenced are Huawei's iBMA.

I don't think these will ever be used for a Cluster Network but I can't figure out how to stop this from happening. Windows is seeing the iBMA NICs as normal ethernet NICs in Network and Sharing Center, so the Cluster thinks they are usuable.

How do I stop this behaviour? And why is iBMA presented to Windows as a normal NIC?


Thanks

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stephen.xu
Admin Created Feb 27, 2021 00:45:51

Hi, ldoodle

You are suggested to contact the Technical support to solve the problem.

https://app.huawei.com/ects/#!ecare/sr/newLoginFailed.html
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Boreas
Created Feb 17, 2021 06:23:50

Hi, bro.


The iBMA is a real-time monitoring suite developer by Huawei team, it supports the status monitoring, performance monitoring, and event monitoring of various components, including server CPUs, memory, hard disks, NICs, IB cards, PCIe cards, RAID controller cards, and optical modules.


if there is other out-of-band management monitoring software to monitor your window cluster OS, or you didn't want to see this event appearing again, so you can try to uninstall the iBMA or directly disable the iBMC NIC in device manager.


uninstalling steps: https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100027231/42b45f3c/uninstalling-the-ibma, it will completely uninstall the iBMA.


disable iBMA NIC in devicemanager, it's easier. steps:

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olive.zhao
olive.zhao Admin Created Feb 14, 2021 14:38:43

Hello, dear!
It's nice to meet you in the community.
We're working on your problem. Please be patient.
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Jiro
Jiro Created Feb 14, 2021 14:57:10

Hello, friend!

Have a nice day!

Could you describe your problem in detail? I think iBMA is short for Intelligent Baseboard Management Agent. It is a manager, not a NIC. right?


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ldoodle
ldoodle Created Feb 14, 2021 19:10:22 (0) (0)
That's what I expect. But in Windows it is showing the iBMA as a usable NIC, and I can give it an IP address just like you can with an actual NIC. Because of this, the Windows Failover Cluster component is pulling it in to the cluster and moaning that if can't communicate with the other iBMAs in the other Cluster Nodes.

Can I upload pictures here?  
ldoodle
ldoodle Created Feb 14, 2021 19:13:38 (0) (0)
PS: If I disable the adapter in Windows, it's always re-enabled on reboot as well. I do want to use iBMA but as you say it shouldn't be presented to Windows as an actual NIC.

I expect it to be seen the same way as iLO on HP on iDRAC on Dell for examples.  
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olive.zhao
olive.zhao Admin Created Feb 15, 2021 09:21:56

Hello, friend!

Can you share some error screenshot?

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ldoodle
ldoodle Created Feb 15, 2021 10:24:32

Not so much "error" screenshots- just confused as to why the iBMA adapter is seen this way.


Cluster Error

Device Manager Network Group

iBMA presented as a normal NIC


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ldoodle
ldoodle Created Feb 15, 2021 16:10:47 (0) (0)
Just found this, which seems identical!!

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/442961-server-2012-failover-clustering-excempt-nic-from-becomming-a-cluster-network

But ideally I'd like to avoid running a PowerShell command on every reboot!  
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Boreas
Boreas Created Feb 17, 2021 06:23:50

Hi, bro.


The iBMA is a real-time monitoring suite developer by Huawei team, it supports the status monitoring, performance monitoring, and event monitoring of various components, including server CPUs, memory, hard disks, NICs, IB cards, PCIe cards, RAID controller cards, and optical modules.


if there is other out-of-band management monitoring software to monitor your window cluster OS, or you didn't want to see this event appearing again, so you can try to uninstall the iBMA or directly disable the iBMC NIC in device manager.


uninstalling steps: https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100027231/42b45f3c/uninstalling-the-ibma, it will completely uninstall the iBMA.


disable iBMA NIC in devicemanager, it's easier. steps:

1


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stephen.xu
stephen.xu Admin Created Feb 27, 2021 00:45:51

Hi, ldoodle

You are suggested to contact the Technical support to solve the problem.

https://app.huawei.com/ects/#!ecare/sr/newLoginFailed.html
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