Power cycle/ Reset an HP blade server

Was getting the following error on one of our servers. It’s from ESXi. None of the NICs were working for the server (the NICs seemed to be working, just that the driver wasn’t loading). 

error

Power cycle required. 

I switched off and switched on the server but that didn’t help. Turns out that doesn’t actually power cycle the server (because the server still has power – doh!). What you need to do is do something called an e-fuse reset. This power cycles the blade. You have to do this by opening an SSH session to the Onboard Administrator, finding the bay number of the blade you want to power cycle, and typing the command reset server <bay number>

Good to know!

Note: The command does not appear when you type help, but it’s there:

Also, to get a list of your bays and servers use the show server list command. To do the same for interconnects use the show interconnect list command.