Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming...
Hi Andreas, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:42:33PM +0100, "Andreas Bergstrøm" wrote: > However, couldn't the entire naming issue be alleviated by adding symlinks > from ethX to ethomX/enX/lomX to ensure backwards compatibility while > making things easier to setup on multi-NIC machines? Unfortunately not since network interfaces break the Unix "everything is a file" philosophy. There's no eth0 in /dev. :-( Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming...
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:00:33PM +, Ben wrote: > Having thought about this some more, I think the idea is sound. But the > name needs work. Because of the overloading of the acronym LOM I propose > you change it to "NIC On Motherboard" or nomX (-: > > Another suggestion from an IT colleague of mine was "Motherboard Ethernet" > or methX. It's closer to ethX and therefore easier to remember/associate. Maybe ethmX would be even better since regular expressions like "eth.*" will still match. A lot of tools would have to be changed... Tino. PS: Or ethomX which is even pronouncable. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: perc6i alignment?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:57:56PM +, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-10-12 14:52, Tino Schwarze wrote: > > I suppose(!) alignment doesn't matter that much (or at all) for RAID10 > > (which is the right choice for DB loads with only few disks). > > > > But that's just my gut feeling. > > My gut thinks your gut is wrong about that. :^) Why would RAID10 be > exempt? The PERC is still going to bunch up disk addressing into RAID > chunks. If your filesystem blocks aren't aligned with the chunk > boundaries, you're going to need two disks to seek to satisfy some read > requests, and four disks for some write requests. Right. These disks could be doing other stuff instead of reading one another RAID chunk. So better always align to stripe size. Thanks, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: perc6i alignment?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:37:48PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: > On 12/10/10 09:18, Tino Schwarze wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:33:35PM -0500, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > > > >> What partition offset should one use when trying to align Windows > >> 2003, 2008R2, or RHEL 5 partitions to PERC6i characteristics for best > >> performance? > > > > Any multiple of your RAID volume's stripe size. What is your RAID > > configuration, exactly? IMO, block alignment should only matter for RAID > > levels involving checksums. > > Hmm, this is potentially interesting. > > We're using PERC 6/i with 4 x 10k 2.5" 146GB drives in RAID10. > > I currently do a straight-forward CentOS install onto the logical drive, > creating two partitions, one small one for /boot and the other across > the rest of the disk which I make an lvm PV and slice it up using lvm. > The main performance bottleneck for us is write performance for MySQL. > > Could I get better performance by doing things differently? I suppose(!) alignment doesn't matter that much (or at all) for RAID10 (which is the right choice for DB loads with only few disks). But that's just my gut feeling. If write performance is the bottleneck, you might want to consider an external file system journal (on SSD, preferably). But I've only heard/read that it helps and I don't know about MySQL tuning. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: perc6i alignment?
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 09:33:35PM -0500, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > What partition offset should one use when trying to align Windows > 2003, 2008R2, or RHEL 5 partitions to PERC6i characteristics for best > performance? Any multiple of your RAID volume's stripe size. What is your RAID configuration, exactly? IMO, block alignment should only matter for RAID levels involving checksums. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Collect info about few dozen servers
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:40:15AM +0200, Bertrand HENRY wrote: > > I have about 2-3 dozen servers (a mix of SC1425 and PE860) in storage. I'd > > like to have an as complete as possible inventory of what components each of > > those servers contain. I'm thinking of: > > * cpu type/model/speed/etc > > * memory (how many sticks of a certain size) > > * disks > > * raid controller present? > > * cd/dvd drive present? > > * any other info would be a nice bonus [...] > ocs Inventory NG can do that > http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ As far as I know, it needs an agent on the client. Tino (only looked into OCSI-NG once, found it promising but didn't get so far as to install the client on all servers). -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Collect info about few dozen servers
Hi Ruben, On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:45:39AM +0200, Ruben Laban wrote: > I have about 2-3 dozen servers (a mix of SC1425 and PE860) in storage. I'd > like to have an as complete as possible inventory of what components each of > those servers contain. I'm thinking of: > * cpu type/model/speed/etc > * memory (how many sticks of a certain size) > * disks > * raid controller present? > * cd/dvd drive present? > * any other info would be a nice bonus > > I just tried booting the OMSA Live cd, which after quite some boottime, and > using omreport I was able to collect pretty much all the required info. It > would take quite some time per server though. > Ideally I would netboot each server into an omsa "enabled" environment, from > where I could run a script which would dump all info to an usb stick (in a > file > based on the server's tag). > > Anyone have some ideas on how to go about it? Did you try dmidecode? It outputs quite a lot of stuff... HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: ordering a T610: what options?
Hi Louis, *never* order via online shop. Always get a Dell sales person to talk to. Just tell them what you want, then let them send you an offer. The price difference is significant (and the Online configurator IMO has been sucking for years). A sales rep obviously has access to a lot more configurations (and the knowledge which one to choose). To answer one of your questions: You may either just order 8 small disks from Dell if you don't want to pay their premium prices or you could get the trays from somewhere else (there are other sources on the net). Getting empty drive trays from Dell has turned out impossible in the past. HTH, Tino. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 03:00:29PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > I am about to order a T610 but find some options baffling. > > This will be a backup server with 8 sata disks running linux software > raid (raid6 mdadm). So it needs no raid hardware, just a competent sata > controller. > > Here are my questions: > > - what "Raid Connectivity" (C0 to C16) should I select? > > - which "Raid Controller" is the best in plain JBOD mode? Which will > allow 'smartctl' to monitor the individual disks' health? > > - do I need to order 8 disks from Dell to get 8 sata hotplug trays > preinstalled? > > - which is best among low-voltage/standard UDIMM/RDIMM ? (there is also > an "Others" RAM choice, what is that?) > > Thanks, -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: PowerEdge R410 Motherboards Ship with malware/trojan in Firmware
Hi, On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:01:51PM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > I've heard from comments on /. and elsewhere that only replacement > boards were infected and that Dell has contacted users who received > these boards. I've got a new unopened R410 with the iDrac Express > still sitting in the box, so it's probably safe, but I'd feel better > if there was some utility that could be run to check for the infected > image and then flash it with the clean image of the embedded OS. > > Sabuj Pattanayek > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Brian A. Seklecki > wrote: > > > > Oh man: > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/07/pc-giant-warns-of-hardware-tro.html > > > > http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/t/19339458.aspx Citing this URL: 1. This issue does not affect any Dell PowerEdge servers shipped from our factories and is limited to a small number of the replacement motherboards only which were sent via Dell’s service and replacement process for four servers: PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410. The maximum potential exposure is less than 1% of these server models. 2. Dell has removed all impacted motherboards from the service supply. New shipping replacement stock does not contain the malware. 3. The W32.Spybot worm was discovered in flash storage on the motherboard during Dell testing. The malware does not reside in the firmware. 4. All industry-standard antivirus programs on the market today have the ability to identify and prevent the code from infecting the customer’s operating system. 5. Systems running non-Microsoft Windows operating systems cannot be affected. 6. Systems with the iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise card installed cannot be affected. 7. Remaining systems can only be exposed if the customer chooses to run an update to either Unified Server Configurator (USC) or 32-bit Diagnostics. HTH, Tino, (not affiliated with Dell!) -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?
Hi James, On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:52:48PM +0100, James Bensley wrote: > Knowers-of-all; Not yet. ;) > I am wanting to alter the partition sizes of a Windows Server 2003 box > we have and I was planning to boot up with a GParted Live CD but will > it be able to see my NTFS partitions to resize them? > > The box in question is a PE1950 with a Perc 5/i with two SATAII drives > in a hardware RAID1, on that sits two Logical Volumes, ignore volume > 1; on volume 0 there are two partitions C: and P: and I want to shrink > P: and then grow C: but does anyone know if Gparted can see NTFS > partitions, on a LV, on the hardware RAID on a Perc 5/i? Seems a bit > far fetched to me? Just try it. ;-) It should work since the PERC drivers have been part of standard Linux kernels for quite some time and GParted is based on rather recent kernels. The kernel driver will make your LVs appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, GParted should know about the rest. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Moving PD slots while preserving VD
Hi Ken, On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:36:39PM -0700, Ken Nishimura wrote: > I'm halfway through a disk migration to increase space and now want to > poll the group before proceeding... > > OLD: One virtual disk (Virtual Disk 0) comprised of two 146 GB physical drives > in controller slots 0 and 1. This was the system disk. > > WANT: One virtual disk (named Virtual Disk 0) comprised of two 300 GB > physical drives in controller slots 0 and 1. This will be the new system > disk. > > Steps taken so far: > > 1) Inserted two 300 GB physical drives in controller slots 2 and 3 and > created Virtual Disk 1. > > 2) Copied all the info from Virtual Disk 0 to Virtual Disk 1. > > 3) Rebooted into PERC BIOS, and: > > a) Forced offline the two 146 GB drives. This made VD0 disappear > as expected. > > b) Physically removed the two 146 GB drives. > > 4) This worked fine. Machine rebooted and now on a larger virtual disk. > > What I want may seem petty, but I'd like to move the two physical disks > from slots 2 and 3 back into slots 0 and 1, and rename the VD from > Virtual Disk 1 to Virtual Disk 0. > > The rename is trivial, but moving disks scares me. Am I correct in > fearing that if I were to force offline the two drives and move them > from slots 2/3 into slots 0/1, that things would go awry? > > What is the safe way (if any) of moving the disks? Simply power off the machine, pull all disks, insert in desired order. The controller should pick them up - slot position does not matter since config is stored on disk. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: dell 2850 initrd problem.
Hi Ron, the typical solution in such a case is: Restore from backup. :-| On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:27:42AM -0400, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > I found the FC3 rescuecd somewhere it is 2.6.12-1.667 > (that was what was initially installed.) > > > btw: I remember, before the reboot with the kernel panic, that when I > booted the machine it said it booted from an unclean shutdown (or > something along that road). > I thought a reboot would take care of that (but probably not with broken > raid memory) > > I tried to boot with all 4 kernels (667, 1381 both regular and smp) > and they all give me the same error. > > I mounted the file system with the rescue cd and saw the following. > > there is nothing in /mnt/sysimage/initrd(so if it tries to do > something with /initrd/dev I understand that can't work) > > I also checked what is in /etc (/mnt/sysimage/etc) with: > > ls /mnt/sysimage/etc/in* > > I get: > > /etc/init-d Input/Output error > /etc/inittab Input/Output error > /etc/initlog.conf Input/Output error > > (btw, other places don't seem affected, it looks like all the data etc > is there) > Maybe I should run fsck on that drive (it is a raid) first, and than try > and see what happens? > > Can I (I how do I) run fsck from the rescue cd? I'd suggest running rpm --verify -a, then re-installing the affected packages. Of course, do 1) backup first, 2) run e2fsck on the partition. Input/Output error is either a sign of severe filesystem corruption or a sign of hardware failure - check your logs! Recue CDs are design to allow fsck ;) - figure out the device, then use it to run fsck. BE SURE TO HAVE BACKUPS! If the RAID had a problem, both disks might be broken in different ways - I would not trust that data without some serious integrity checks or similar. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration
Hi Ben, On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Ben Tisdall wrote: > I wonder if someone could confirm to me that non-destructive raid > level migration (1 => 0) is NOT possible with the SAS5/iR controller? Such conversion would be very risky, to say the least. (In RAID1, you have a copy of each data block on both disks, in RAID0, you distribute data blocks evenly: block0 -> disk0, block1 -> disk1, block2 -> disk0, block3 -> disk1 etc.) Apart from that, the SAS 5/iR is a rather stupid controller with no fancy logic etc, so I guess it's simply not supported. > >From the lack of that option in VD menu I assume that is the case, > unless it's matter of a driver version: > > Firmware Version 00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00 > Driver Version3.04.03 > Minimum Required Driver Version 3.12.29.00 > > This is OM 6.2 on Fedora 6 (cannot be upgraded to suit unfortunately). OMSA or OS version shouldn't matter at all. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Massive sense key & IO errors and eventual crashing. R900 with Perc 6i
If I'm interpreting the sense keys correctly (according to http://docs.hp.com/en/A5159-96003/apas01.html ), > Sense: b/4b/04 means: b = Aborted command 4b = Data phase error I smell some cabling issue... HTH, Tino. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:44:29PM -0700, Chris Trainor wrote: > Here's the last 50 lines of the external adapters event log. Unfortunately > it looks like one of the admins here cleared the log on the other controller. > :( Tho I'm sure in the next few days I'll have something there. :) > > Adapter: 0 - Number of events : 8791 > > > > seqNum: 0x00446483 > Time: Tue May 11 11:59:23 2010 > > Code: 0x001e > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x20 > Event Description: Event log cleared > Event Data: > === > None > > > seqNum: 0x00446484 > Time: Tue May 11 11:59:24 2010 > > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 23(e0x11/s5) Path 5000c5000beae891, > CDB: 28 00 05 83 44 67 00 00 19 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 35 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 5 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0005 0083 0044 0067 0019 > Sense Length: 18 > Sense Data: > 00f0 000b 0005 0083 0044 0078 000a 004b 0004 > 00 > 00 > > > > seqNum: 0x00446485 > Time: Tue May 11 11:59:24 2010 > > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 27(e0x11/s9) Path 5000c5000beae6f9, > CDB: 28 00 07 9c 4a 00 00 00 17 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 39 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 9 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0007 009c 004a 0017 > Sense Length: 18 > Sense Data: > 00f0 000b 0007 009c 004a 0013 000a 004b 0004 > 00 > 00 > > > > seqNum: 0x00446486 > Time: Tue May 11 11:59:26 2010 > > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 27(e0x11/s9) Path 5000c5000beae6f9, > CDB: 28 00 06 01 bc 0f 00 00 20 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 39 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 9 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0006 0001 00bc 000f 0020 > Sense Length: 18 > Sense Data: > 00f0 000b 0006 0001 00bc 0022 000a 004b 0004 > 00 > 00 > > > > seqNum: 0x00446487 > Time: Tue May 11 11:59:26 2010 > > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 15(e0x11/s13) Path 5000c5000bead7d9, > CDB: 28 00 01 0d d6 17 00 00 20 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 21 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 13 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0001 000d 00d6 0017 0020 > Sense Length: 18 > [r...@mackey MegaCli]# tail -50 AdpEvt-a0.log > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 15(e0x11/s13) Path 5000c5000bead7d9, > CDB: 28 00 07 5e be c7 00 00 20 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 21 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 13 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0007 005e 00be 00c7 0020 > Sense Length: 18 > Sense Data: > 00f0 000b 0007 005e 00be 00e0 000a 004b 0004 > > > > > > seqNum: 0x004486d9 > Time: Tue May 11 17:41:01 2010 > > Code: 0x0071 > Class: 0 > Locale: 0x02 > Event Description: Unexpected sense: PD 27(e0x11/s9) Path 5000c5000beae6f9, > CDB: 28 00 06 be 00 07 00 00 20 00, Sense: b/4b/04 > Event Data: > === > Device ID: 39 > Enclosure Index: 17 > Slot Number: 9 > CDB Length: 10 > CDB Data: > 0028 0006 00be 0007 0020 > Sense Length: 18 > Sense Data: > 00f0 000b 0006 00be 0022 000a 004b 0004 >
Re: PE2950, LSI SAS -> SATA very slow
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:32:25AM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > 10MB/sec does seem extremely poor. we've had read slowness when Linux block > > device read-ahead was too small. Once properly configured, performance on > > RAID-5 went from 150MB/sec to 500MB/sec, so the difference is dramatic. we > > usually tune read-ahead (in Linux) buffers starting from 8MB to 32MB and > > benchmark to see what works best. but your problem may be elsewhere... we've > > never seen 10MB/sec... > > Have you got any pointers to where this can be adjusted? It seems > (according to Google) there are countless methods and patches, most of > which are for rather old kernel versions. man blockdev blockdev --setra blocks /dev/sda It is part of util-linux-ng . HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Expand nonraid to raid
Hi Magnus, On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:43:38AM +0200, Magnus Ringdahl wrote: > I have a PE1950 with sas 6iR controller with one hdd. > I wonder if its possible to add an identical hdd and create a raid-1 > array, without reinstallation of OS? > Does it mean i have to clone the drive? As far as I know, this is not possible since any RAID setup will need some bytes of Metadata at the start or end of a partition/device. BTW: If the 6i/R is similar to the 5i/R, do not trust it's RAID capabilities but use software RAID instead. This is just an el-cheapo RAID controller without any of the advanced features of "real" hardware RAID. We're suffering from an 5i/R on one of our machines - it's performance is abysmal. You don't need to reinstall if you boot from a CD, then setup software RAID devices on the new disk (with one missing device), copy everything over, then create the devices on the old disk and let the software RAID do the sync. If you've got LVM in place, things will get easier. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Hot disk change.
Hi Fabio, do you have some kind of LVM or other means of volume management in place? What's your partition setup like? Please post output of df -h. Tino. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:28:58AM -0300, Fabio Catunda wrote: > Thanks for all responses. > > Now I see that I am in trouble. > > I really cannot install everything from zero, it will take too long and > might not work. > > I would like to know your opinion about the following procedure: > 1 - Shutdown > 2 - Remove both disks > 3 - Plug both 2TB new disks and create a new virtual disk on the controller > 4 - Plug one of the old 250GB disks in a separate SATA connector > 5 - dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda (where sdb is the old disk and sda is the > new virtual disk) > 6 - fstab, resize2fs, etc, etc...! > > I really don't know if the OS will recognize and be able to read the old > disk plugged in another SATA connector. > > Thanks in advance. > > Fábio Catunda. > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Newer version of the OMSA MIBs
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > > I found this: > > http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s > > =biz&deviceid=2331&libid=36&releaseid=R251021&vercnt=3&formatcnt=0&Syste > > mID=PWE_M610&servicetag=&os=RHEL5&osl=en&catid=-1&dateid=-1&typeid=-1&fo > > rmatid=-1&impid=-1&checkFormat=true > > > > Which I got to by going to http://support.dell.com, selecting > > Enterprise, searched by HW type, chose a M610, selected RHEL 5, then > > went to the System Management section, and found OM. > > Yeah, but this is OM. I'm looking for the MIBs associated with it, > titled "MIBs for PowerEdge", currently available in version 6.0.1. > > Version 6.0.1 of the MIBs is not new enough. For example, a physical > drive can (tested with OM 6.2.0.1) have a state "Replacing" as reported > by omreport. Via SNMP this corresponds to the value "22", which is not > defined in the MIBs. Why not just use the MIB files delivered with OMSA? I've got these in an OMSA 6.1 install: /opt/dell/srvadmin/sm/mibs/dcstorag.mib /opt/dell/srvadmin/omsa/mibs/dcs3fru.mib /opt/dell/srvadmin/omsa/mibs/10892.mib And 6.2 has these: /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-isvc/mib/10892.mib /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-isvc/mib/dcs3fru.mib /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/srvadmin-storage/dcstorag.mib Tino. PS: I've never looked at the downloadable MIBs... -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Vendor ID?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:06:02PM -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Stephan van Hienen wrote: > > > Controller PERC 6/i Adapter (Slot 3) > > ID: 0:0:0 > > Status: Ok > > Name : Physical Disk 0:0:0 > > [..] > > Vendor ID : SEAGATE > > Product ID: ST31000640SS > > How interesting! I have (disks not sourced from Dell): > > Vendor ID : DELL > Product ID: ST3750330NS Similar here: Controller PERC 5/i Integrated (Embedded) Vendor ID : DELL Product ID: Hitachi HUA721075KLA330 Vendor ID : DELL Product ID: WDC WD7502ABYS-02A6B0 These are SATA disks and have not been supplied by Dell. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: > I mailed my sales rep yesterday explaining my concerns and got a reply > today that he'll ask the marketing department for an official statement. I got an answer today (German, English translation below): > [...] Ich kann Sie voll und ganz verstehen. DELL hat sich entschieden an > dieser Stelle den gleichen Weg zu gehen wie die Konkurrenz (HP,IBM). Das > heisst auch bei den anderen werden Sie dort kein Glück haben was diese > Sache an geht. Zur Zeit kann ich Ihnen dann nur den Perc 6i empfehlen > solange dieser noch zur Verfügung steht. Falls Sie hierzu noch weitere > Fragen haben sollten, dann rufen Sie mich bitte kurz an. Vielen Dank für > Ihr Verständnis. > > P.S. ich hätte Ihnen gerne eine andere Auskunft gegeben :-/ Rough translation: I do fully understand you. DELL decided to go the same route as it's competitors (HP, IBM). Which means you'll be out of luck there as well regarding this issue. For the time being I can only recommend the PERC 6i as long as it is available. Please call me if you've got further questions. Thank you for your understanding. PS: I'd rather given you a different information. End of translation. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers
Hi there, I mailed my sales rep yesterday explaining my concerns and got a reply today that he'll ask the marketing department for an official statement. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: help configuring a db server
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:35:06PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > for under $6000. But I'm confused about disk. I would think disk pspeed
> > would be fairly important. How can I configure a machine with a fast disk?
> > What are my options from Dell in that regard?
>
> Get the fastest RAID controller you can and are comfortable with, and as many
> of the fastest disks you can afford as you can fit in the machine.
>
> Since you want to stay under $6000, using SSD or FusionIO is probably out.
> I would think (haven't verified) that you could buy 4 (or 5) 15K RPM SAS
> drives in your price range, setup as a RAID 10. If not, try 10K RPM SAS
> drives. If that fails, well, there is always SATA...
>
> I personally like to buy 7 drives: 2 RAID-1 for the OS, 4 RAID-10 for the
> MySQL databases, and 1 hotspare. But, if you need to keep costs down, you
> can dump the RAID 1 and just do 5 drives (RAID 10 plus hot-spare).
>
> You'd have to spec all that one Dell's web site to see if it comes in
> under $6K. If not, just start dropping down until you hit your mark
> (from 7 drives to 5, from 15K SAS to 10K SAS to SATA).
Be sure to mail/call your Dell sales rep. I've seen pretty nice
discounts, just by going through the sales rep. You may outsource the
hassle of what exact drive/config to choose to them - just specify your
requirements ("as fast as possible, at least xx GB, ..., for under $6K").
BTW: Don't even consider RAID-5.
HTH,
Tino.
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Re: PowerEdge 1950 ECC question...
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:21:10AM -0600, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: > I cannot get the node to startup to the point where OMSA runs. It freezes on > startup with the bad RAM. Just take out all RAM (and note which DIMM was in which slot), insert known-good RAM; then have a look at the ESM log. It will tell you where the errors occured (exact DIMM location). Then move all other RAM in, and perform a extensive memory test. HTH, Tino. > - Henrik > > -Original Message- > From: Ryan Miller [mailto:rmil...@smartertravelmedia.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:19 AM > To: Henrik Schmiediche; linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com > Subject: RE: PowerEdge 1950 ECC question... > > Are you running OMSA? It usually is able to pinpoint which stick is the > cause of single bit errors. It can be helpful to stress the RAM with some > heavy compiles/DMA to make the bad stick throw an SBE sooner. > > > -Original Message- > > From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- > > boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Schmiediche > > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:09 AM > > To: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com > > Subject: PowerEdge 1950 ECC question... > > > > Hello, > > Is it possible to turn ECC off on the PowerEdge 1950? I have servers > > from > > other manufacturer where this is possible, but I cannot find this > > option in > > the PE 1950. I'd like to test the memory with ECC turned off. > > > > Here is Background: > > > > I have a PowerEdge 1950 (one of over 100+ identical systems) that > > freezes on > > startup. I can reimage the node fine, the freeze on startup persists. > > The > > node passes Dell Diagnostics including overnight memory testing. > > Nothing in > > the ESM log. > > > > I reseated the RAM and other components. No solution. > > > > On a lark I decided to change all 8 memory sticks.. this solved the > > problem! > > The system starts up fine. > > > > So it seems there is a bad memory module, but I have no idea which > > ones. I > > am trying to avoid the one-by-one (or batch-by-batch) testing method > > and I > > was thinking that (maybe) turning ECC off might help locate the bad > > module. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > - Henrik > > > > > > ___ > > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8
Hi Robert, On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:02:10PM +0100, Robert von Bismarck wrote: [...] > > R410's R710 and R510 all are doing this currently (says my TAM). > > > > I can't say why but I was told it's a "feature" not a "bug". > > Very non-intuitive to me. I can't see why an 8 core server > > defaulting to 4 core makes sense. > > > > We got two R410 exhibiting the same "feature" here. > It's probably a "feature" for some alternative OS's that require > licensing on a per-core basis. > For higher performance, is it better to have two quad-core acting as > dual-core processors due to bios setting, or one quad-core ? I suppose, the only valid answer is: Do your own benchmarks. It depends on such a lot of factors (data locality, hardware architecture details, cache coherency, bus contention etc. pp) that you simply cannot predict how your particular application will perform. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
disabling compression for tapes?
Hi there, while not totally PowerEdge-related, I suppose, there are enough folks operating tape equipment under Linux. I've got an LTO-3 autoloader (Quantum Superloader 3 - there's some Dell-rebranded version of that as well) and it looks like it has compression enabled and I cannot find a way to disable it (it's useless - the tapes only get compressed data anyway). > mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0 Compression off. But the web interface still says: Compression enabled. (No tape currently loaded.) The above mt utility is from cpio-2.6... Any hints? Thanks, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: ubuntu server
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:52:28PM -0500, mark robare wrote: > yes for the experience, > and if would make it more efficeint > thanks for the reply > so I will do it just for learning how its done > I used linux in the mid 90's and did compile it then but that was a long time > ago Installing the kernel source (whatever that package is named in Ubuntu) and running "make cloneconfig" should give you a good starting point. Also have a look at the modules which are currently loaded - you'll probably won't need a lot more (apart from maybe USB storage support etc.) HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Starting OMSA manually?
Hi Josh, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:43:37PM -0600, Baird, Josh wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to start OMSA 5/6 manually without using > srvadmin-services.sh or rebooting. Here is what I am trying: > > > > service dsm_om_shrsvc start > > service instsvcdrv start > > service dataeng start > > service dsm_om_connsvc start > > > > This seems to be the order that is executed upon rebooting.. however it > does not work. Here is what ends up running after these commands are > executed: > [...] > Any idea on what init scripts (and in what order) should be executed to > do this? Looking at /etc/init.d/rc3.d of an 6.1 install here reveals the following order: dkms_autoinstaller mptctl instsvcdrv dataeng dsm_om_shrsvc I've had success with running OMSA manually that way. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Unable to detect SAS Hard disk in OpenSuse 11.2
[...] > The HOWTO's above should guid you through the full process. I > was running SuSE 11.1 when I did the install. That SW RAID is being > used for backups. Write Speed ~150MB/s max, max read, max read is > about 357MB/s (which is about 95% efficiency, given the max read speed > of 3 data spindles (I implemented a RAID5 with 4 disks)). Given that > the raid is spun-down most of the time, that's more than fast enough > for my setup. My limiting factor is 'gzip' which, thinking about it > as I write this -- I should just eliminate (it slows down the > throughput to ~10MB/s which seems like alot given how fast gzip is, > but, that's what the average was over a 6-hour backup of one of my > large partitions). Speaking of "gzip" as the limiting factor - I've had success in replacing gzip by pigz ( http://www.zlib.net/pigz/ ) which makes use of multiple CPUs. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: Using updated JRE with Openmanage
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:17:44PM -1000, Alvarez, Angelo CIV NMFC_JTWC wrote: > Aloha. Periodically, there are Java vulnerabilities requiring me to > update Java software to the latest version. With the Dell Openmanage, > I normally copy all .jar files from srvadmin/jre/lib/ to > /usr/java/latest/lib/. Are there any issues with this approach? Yes. First: It's the wrong way around. Second: There is more to Java than just .jar files - there are lots of .so etc. JAR files actually rarely contain security issues, it's mostly the binaries which make up the JVM. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:35:28PM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Patrick de Groot wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. What exact line did you put into /etc/issue ? > > Some upgrade has changed it back to 11.1, but it's a trivial > change. I went from: > Welcome to openSUSE 11.1 - Kernel \r (\l). > to: >Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 - Kernel \r (\l). > > > I looked at the script source and it allowed Suse enterprise > a well as openSUSE. > > So I just knocked down the point part, since 11.1 is 99.9% > compatible with 11.1. Are you sure the script is looking at /etc/issue? Do you mean the bootstrap.cgi scripts? (I've never used nor needed them, just added the two or three repos manually.) Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:08:51PM -0800, Patrick de Groot wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. What exact line did you put into /etc/issue ? I'm running OMSA 6.x on OpenSUSE 11.1 as well and I did not fiddle anything - just installed the RPMs and they worked. I wouldn't expect any program to look into /etc/issue at all - it's a message for users. Maybe you mean /etc/SuSE-release? (Which is the default one here as well). HTH, Tino. > > > > - Original Message > From: Linda A. Walsh > To: Patrick de Groot > Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 7:58:13 PM > Subject: Re: OpenManage and OpenSuse 11 > > Have you tried OM6.0? I think it is necessary for SUSE 11 support. > I have it running on my 11.1 system (after I changed the /etc/issue file > to tell it I was running 11.0). I was running 11.1 from the start, so had > to get the latest version, which has suse11 support... > > > > Patrick de Groot wrote: > > OpenManage 5.5 web interface doesn't run on OpenSuse 11 (you may handle it > > like Suse 11 if you like). It installs fine, but the web part does not run > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
