Rack Power Up Sequence

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Generally speaking, you start the rack from the top down.

  1. Turn on the network switches
  2. Turn on the KVM switch
  3. Connect the Yellowbrick blades to power then wait for fans to slow/quiet (4-5 mins to boot if blades off for 3+ days).
  4. Connect a KVM Crash Cart to Yellowbrick Manager node 0.
  5. Power up Yellowbrick Manager node 0 wait 30 seconds.
  6. Power up Yellowbrick Manager node 1 wait 3 minutes.
  7. Log into Yellowbrick as ybdadmin user using KVM monitor. Run the following command to verify everything is running:
    ybcli system status
    
  8. Login to Yellowbrick SMC console from a browser as yellowbrick at your virtual IP YB URL.In the Truxton DB this URL is configured to be http://10.10.182.103. You should see at status OK on the dashboard.
  9. Turn on the Servers (7 through 1)

It will take several more minutes for everything to boot.