Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Ollivier Robert]

According to Holger Kipp:
> I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H 
> 200 controller.
> 
> Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-(
> 
> Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image?

I can suggest reading this
http://www.keltia.net/howtos/freebsd-dedibox

Should be applicable to any H200-based machine.

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Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Vincent Hoffman  wrote:

> On 20/04/2011 21:56, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was
> merged.  You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9
> snapshots and see if it sees your disks at all.
> >
> > You can get the snapshot from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ .
> >
> > I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so
> (assuming mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of
> stable/8 yourself - the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the
> servers and install by hand... but that's of course not a trivial thing if
> you never tried it before.
> >
> Actually allbsd seems too be back up and running for -stable
> http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/
> Sadly no -CURRENT snapshots at the moment.
>
>
> Vince
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I think the files

http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110420/bootonly.iso.bz2
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110420/memstick.bz2
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110420/release.iso.bz2

in the following directory may be considered latest snapshots :

http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110420/


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Miroslav Lachman]

Holger Kipp wrote:

[...]


201102 snapshot is for ia64 and ppc only :-| (and only 9.0-CURRENT)
201101 9.0 snapshots are for amd64, i386 (and 8.2 is only PRERELEASE)


[...]


Anyway, thanks a lot for your reply. Maybe someone should update the FreeBSD 
website,
because there it is said that monthly snapshots will be provided for 9.x, 8.x 
etc.


You can get snapshots from this site:

http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/

Miroslav Lachman
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Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 20/04/2011 21:56, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was 
> merged.  You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots 
> and see if it sees your disks at all.
>
> You can get the snapshot from 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ .
>
> I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so 
> (assuming mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of 
> stable/8 yourself - the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers 
> and install by hand... but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never 
> tried it before.
>
Actually allbsd seems too be back up and running for -stable
http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/
Sadly no -CURRENT snapshots at the moment.


Vince
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Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Lorenzo Perone]

Would have loved to use a stable branch (ie 8.2)  instead of development 
(9.0-CURRENT),
though. Especially for the new DELL servers with Perc H200 providing a snapshot 
with
the changes would be greatly appreciated!
   


Hi Holger,

Go for 8-STABLE. Works fine for me.  No need for CURRENT for mps(4). 
Following some heavy load tests (such as concurrent, subsequent 
buildworlds while bonnie++ing around), I can also state that it is very 
stable. Have it on a DELL PowerEdge R410 with the PERC H200A adapter and 
SAS disks, and it works like a charm. I used gmirror on that, and the 
performance is awesome, provided that You tune the sysctl.conf and add: 
vfs.read_max=128 which makes sustained reads much faster (among the -b 
load default strategy when labeling the mirror).

I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so 
(assuming
mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 yourself -
the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and install by hand...
but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried it before.
   
Well, setting up a PXE boot server just for installing one server... :-/


   
It's easy if you have any other FreeBSD machine of the same architecture 
around with 8-STABLE - In fact I also did such a thing once using a 
VirtualBox running on a mac some time ago. If you need a quick setup 
guide tell me I'll send You a few commands.


You can also take one disk out, attach it to a running FreeBSD machine, 
gpart it,
cd /usr/src && make installworld DESTDIR=/mountpoint && make 
installkernel DESTDIR=/mountpoint && make distribution DESTDIR=/mountpoint
Edit the few usual suspects such as at least /mountpoint/etc/fstab and 
boot the system with the disk..




Regards,

Lorenzo
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RE: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Holger Kipp]

On 20. April 2011, 22:56 Simon L. B. Nielsen [si...@nitro.dk] wrote

> On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:16, Holger Kipp wrote:
>
>> I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H 
>> 200 controller.
>> Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-(
>
> AFAIK Perc H 200 should be supported by mps(4) which wasn't merged to 
> stable/8 until after 8.2.

Yep, I noted that :-( Also that mps is currently only supporting JBODs.

> > Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image?
> Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was merged.
> You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots and see
> if it sees your disks at all.
> You can get the snapshot from 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ .

201102 snapshot is for ia64 and ppc only :-| (and only 9.0-CURRENT)
201101 9.0 snapshots are for amd64, i386 (and 8.2 is only PRERELEASE)

I have used the 9.0-CURRENT-201101 now which at least sees the disks as JBOD
(Raid 1 drive is not recognized). I have now installed a zfs-only system 
according to
the excellent documentation found here:
https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/2010/02/08/booting-from-zfs-raid0156-in-freebsd/
which works just fine (as mirror).

Would have loved to use a stable branch (ie 8.2)  instead of development 
(9.0-CURRENT),
though. Especially for the new DELL servers with Perc H200 providing a snapshot 
with
the changes would be greatly appreciated!

> I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so 
> (assuming
> mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 
> yourself -
> the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and install by 
> hand...
> but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried it before.

Well, setting up a PXE boot server just for installing one server... :-/

> I suspect there will be new official snapshots at some point, but I don't 
> know when...

Anyway, thanks a lot for your reply. Maybe someone should update the FreeBSD 
website,
because there it is said that monthly snapshots will be provided for 9.x, 8.x 
etc.

Best regards,
Holger


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Re: FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:16, Holger Kipp wrote:

> I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H 
> 200 controller.
> 
> Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-(

AFAIK Perc H 200 should be supported by mps(4) which wasn't merged to stable/8 
until after 8.2.

> Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image?


Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was merged.  
You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots and see if 
it sees your disks at all.

You can get the snapshot from 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ .

I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so 
(assuming mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 
yourself - the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and 
install by hand... but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried 
it before.

I suspect there will be new official snapshots at some point, but I don't know 
when...

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FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Holger Kipp]

Hi all,

I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H 200 
controller.

Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-(

Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image?


Mamy thanks and best regards,
Holger

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