RE: running PV MD1000 in split mode question...

[Bond Masuda]

No, we already know that SATA drives *without* interposer boards *will* work
in the MD1000 in unified mode. But, we are having issues with split mode and
wondering if the interposer is the issue.

Anybody on this list have direct experience they can speak from?

-Bond

> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Rockwell [mailto:rockw...@pa.msu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 8:37 PM
> To: bond.mas...@jlbond.com
> Cc: linux-poweredge
> Subject: Re: running PV MD1000 in split mode question...
> 
> MD1000s with SATA drives use the interposer card.  I don't think split
> mode is an issue here.  Though I've never really seen a good
> explanation
> or understood if SAS multipathing is used inside an MD1000.
> 
> If want to know can it be made to work somehow without the interposer,
> I
> don't know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
> On 7/8/10 8:18 PM, bond.mas...@jlbond.com wrote:
> > just a question for those who know for sure
> >
> > does the MD1000 running in split mode and SATA drives require that
> the
> > SATA drives have an interposer board?
> >
> > I originally thought the interposer boards were necessary only for
> MD3000
> > and dual pathing..
> >
> > TIA,
> > -Bond
> >
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Re: Help with error message from megasasctl

[Jefferson Ogata]

On 2010-07-09 04:10, brijesh patel wrote:
> I have been receiving error messages from megasasctl which says the
> following.

> *a0e32s3   SEAGATE ST9300603SS279GiB  a0d0  online   errs:
> media:0  other:5*
>  write errors: corr:  0delay:  0rewrit:  2tot/corr: 
> 2tot/uncorr: 13  
>   read errors: corr: 32Mi  delay:  1reread:  0tot/corr:
> 32Mi  tot/uncorr:  0  
> verify errors: corr:159Mi  delay:  9revrfy:  0   
> tot/corr:159Mi  tot/uncorr:  0  
> 
> This is the 4th hard drive in my RAID Array. I couldn't find a proper
> explanation on google. I think one of my hard drive is failing but i
> would like to have your thoughts on it.

Yes, that is a failing disk. I don't know why the PERCs don't fail them
when this starts to happen, but the disk is clearly reporting that it
has had 13 uncorrected write errors. That may be okay for Dell's data,
but not for mine.

Usually in this case I start a long self-test on the disk in question
(as well as on a spare so I have a reliable replacement). Often the
self-test will fail sufficiently to get Dell to replace the disk, or it
may even force the PERC to fail the disk.

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PE2850/PV220s & VMware ESXi configuration?

[Derek Yuen]

Hi,

I'd appreciate any advice on how to make use/configure two PowerEdge 2850s
with a PowerVault PV220s.  Both machines have two PERC4/DC cards, which
presumably gives me some configuration flexibility on the storage.

I was thinking (conceptually) of building a VMWare ESXi environment out of
them to replace the two-dozen Sun SparcStation 20/Ultra 1/Ultra 10 boxes
that are dying to be replaced.  (or they're just dying anyway, seeing how
three has died in a week)

I know, the PV220s is not a true SAN, which means no Vmotion for me.

I'm thinking of a split-bus configuration and each of the 2850's will have
a piece of the storage.  Then I'll just duplicate the VMs so both 2850s
runs the same VMs on the PV220s and call it a day.  This should get me
"high availability" and "redundancy" without too much work.


Could someone confirm if this is possible ?  If you're already doing it,
were there any pitfalls that you've experienced ?

Is there a better way to use/configure this combo of hardware ?



Thanks in advance,
Derek

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Help with error message from megasasctl

[brijesh patel]

Hi 

I have been receiving error messages from megasasctl which says the following.

a0   PERC 6/i Integrated  bios:2.01.00 fw:1.21.02-0528 encl:1 ldrv:1  
rbld:30% batt:good/4029mV/18C
a0d0  557GiB RAID 10  2x2  optimal
   row  0:  a0e32s0   a0e32s2 
   row  1:  a0e32s1   a0e32s3 
a0e32s0   SEAGATE ST9300603SS279GiB  a0d0  online  
 write errors: corr:  0delay:  0rewrit:  0tot/corr:  0
tot/uncorr:  0   
  read errors: corr: 44Mi  delay:  0reread:  0tot/corr: 44Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
verify errors: corr:294Mi  delay:  0revrfy:  0tot/corr:294Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
a0e32s1   SEAGATE ST9300603SS279GiB  a0d0  online  
 write errors: corr:  0delay:  0rewrit:  0tot/corr:  0
tot/uncorr:  0   
  read errors: corr: 49Mi  delay:  0reread:  0tot/corr: 49Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
verify errors: corr:184Mi  delay:  0revrfy:  0tot/corr:184Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
a0e32s2   SEAGATE ST9300603SS279GiB  a0d0  online  
 write errors: corr:  0delay:  0rewrit:  0tot/corr:  0
tot/uncorr:  0   
  read errors: corr: 29Mi  delay:  0reread:  0tot/corr: 29Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
verify errors: corr:201Mi  delay:  0revrfy:  0tot/corr:201Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   

a0e32s3   SEAGATE ST9300603SS279GiB  a0d0  online   errs: media:0  
other:5
 write errors: corr:  0delay:  0rewrit:  2tot/corr:  2
tot/uncorr: 13   
  read errors: corr: 32Mi  delay:  1reread:  0tot/corr: 32Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   
verify errors: corr:159Mi  delay:  9revrfy:  0tot/corr:159Mi  
tot/uncorr:  0   

This is the 4th hard drive in my RAID Array. I couldn't find a proper 
explanation on google. I think one of my hard drive is failing but i would like 
to have your thoughts on it. 

Regards

Brijesh Patel
  
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Re: running PV MD1000 in split mode question...

[Tom Rockwell]

MD1000s with SATA drives use the interposer card.  I don't think split 
mode is an issue here.  Though I've never really seen a good explanation 
or understood if SAS multipathing is used inside an MD1000.

If want to know can it be made to work somehow without the interposer, I 
don't know.

Cheers,
Tom

On 7/8/10 8:18 PM, bond.mas...@jlbond.com wrote:
> just a question for those who know for sure
>
> does the MD1000 running in split mode and SATA drives require that the
> SATA drives have an interposer board?
>
> I originally thought the interposer boards were necessary only for MD3000
> and dual pathing..
>
> TIA,
> -Bond
>
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running PV MD1000 in split mode question...

[bond.masuda]

just a question for those who know for sure

does the MD1000 running in split mode and SATA drives require that the
SATA drives have an interposer board?

I originally thought the interposer boards were necessary only for MD3000
and dual pathing..

TIA,
-Bond

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Re: iDRAC6 Express on PE R610?

[Tom Rockwell]

Hi,

To reproduce, I do the following:

- reboot node
- enter iDRAC6 Express confguration
- reset to default configuration
- enable IPMI over LAN, set ip address, netmask, gateway and root password
- exit and reboot
- press f2 to enter setup screen, leave node sitting at this screen

The above is OS independent, AFAIK.

The iDRAC6 becomes pingable at start of second reboot.  It stops 
responding to pings after 3 to 10 minutes.  Results are similar with the 
OS Scientific Linux 5.4 running.

BIOS is 1.3.6, iDRAC6 Express FW is 1.30.7 (I think I saw that 
correctly).  Have also tested with a 2.X BIOS.

The iDRAC6 has no VLAN configured, the switch port has an untagged VLAN 
setup.  It may be that the VLAN has traffic on it that confuses the 
iDRAC?  I'll try an isolated VLAN for the iDRAC.

We don't understand if we have some network issue, there is a firmware 
bug, a combination of these two, or something else going on.

Thanks,
Tom Rockwell

On 7/7/10 11:47 PM, shine...@dell.com wrote:
> Hi,
>   Can you provide following information to understand more on this
> issue
>
> 1: Operating system used on R610
> 2: Is there any VLAN configured for iDRAC and Host OS
> 3: Which iDRAC FW version are you using
> 4: Does the ping failure observed after Server starts or once the OS
> starts
>
> Thanks&  Regards
>
> Shine K A
> Product Group
> Dell | Bangalore Development Center
> Phone: +91 80 280 77756
> Mob: +91 9448175422
>
> -Original Message-
> From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Tom Rockwell
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 8:16 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: iDRAC6 Express on PE R610?
>
> Hi,
>
> We have some poweredge r610 nodes with the iDRAC6 Express card.  We want
>
> to use them with the first NIC shared between OS and the DRAC.  However,
>
> the DRAC falls off the network (stops responding to pings) shortly after
>
> starting up.  We have just tried with an iDRAC6 Enterprise using the
> dedicated port and this is stable.  Anyone using the shared port
> configuration with iDRAC6 Express?  Any "tricks" to making this work?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Rockwell
> Michigan State U.
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RE: Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

[Carlson, Timothy S]

Uh... replace the obvious typo of  "900Gb/s" with "9Gb/s". :)

Tim

-Original Message-
From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com 
[mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Carlson, Timothy S
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:07 PM
To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Subject: RE: Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

I have placed Myricom 10G cards in the latest AMD platforms (magny cours) and 
have been doing netperf tests over 900Gb/s. To do that I had to enable jumbo 
frames and use the driver from Myricom rather than the one that comes with the 
Redhat 5.x kernel.

This has been on supermicro based machines and not the Dell R815 so YMMV, but I 
have been happy with the performance and the boxes should be more or less the 
same (quad socket 6100)

TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to compute-0-1-ib 
(192.168.2.251) port 0 AF_INET
Recv   SendSend  
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed  
Size   SizeSize Time Throughput  
bytes  bytes   bytessecs.10^6bits/sec  

 87380  65536  6553610.019353.17   

# lspci | grep Myri
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myri-10G Dual-Protocol NIC

# dmesg | grep -i Myri | grep -i vers
myri10ge: Version 1.5.1

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[mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Koch
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:39 PM
To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Subject: Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

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[Resent, since I did not actually see this on the list]

Hi all,

does anyone have experience what the best 10 Gb/s SFP+ NIC (in terms of
throughput) for the R815 is? The affordable Intel NICs all rely on techniques
for high-performance such as QuickData etc. that require Intel chip-sets and
CPUs and are simply not available on the AMD platform.

Any hints are appreciated!

Best,
  Andreas Koch
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RE: Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

[Carlson, Timothy S]

I have placed Myricom 10G cards in the latest AMD platforms (magny cours) and 
have been doing netperf tests over 900Gb/s. To do that I had to enable jumbo 
frames and use the driver from Myricom rather than the one that comes with the 
Redhat 5.x kernel.

This has been on supermicro based machines and not the Dell R815 so YMMV, but I 
have been happy with the performance and the boxes should be more or less the 
same (quad socket 6100)

TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to compute-0-1-ib 
(192.168.2.251) port 0 AF_INET
Recv   SendSend  
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed  
Size   SizeSize Time Throughput  
bytes  bytes   bytessecs.10^6bits/sec  

 87380  65536  6553610.019353.17   

# lspci | grep Myri
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myri-10G Dual-Protocol NIC

# dmesg | grep -i Myri | grep -i vers
myri10ge: Version 1.5.1

-Original Message-
From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com 
[mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Koch
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:39 PM
To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Subject: Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

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[Resent, since I did not actually see this on the list]

Hi all,

does anyone have experience what the best 10 Gb/s SFP+ NIC (in terms of
throughput) for the R815 is? The affordable Intel NICs all rely on techniques
for high-performance such as QuickData etc. that require Intel chip-sets and
CPUs and are simply not available on the AMD platform.

Any hints are appreciated!

Best,
  Andreas Koch
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Best 10G Ethernet NIC for R815?

[Andreas Koch]

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[Resent, since I did not actually see this on the list]

Hi all,

does anyone have experience what the best 10 Gb/s SFP+ NIC (in terms of
throughput) for the R815 is? The affordable Intel NICs all rely on techniques
for high-performance such as QuickData etc. that require Intel chip-sets and
CPUs and are simply not available on the AMD platform.

Any hints are appreciated!

Best,
  Andreas Koch
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R300 network throughput

[David Hubbard]

I've got an R300 that is running current centos 5
kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 x86_64 and just stock
hardware including built-in NIC:

Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

Using the stock centos tg3 driver.  Are thre any
known issues with this setup?  I can't get it to
do better than about 300 Mbit/sec using iperf on
a full duplex gig link to another server with no
issues saturating a gig link using the same test
on the same switch, same vlan, no routing involved.

Thanks,

David

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RE: R510 "power capping" and "power budgeting"?

[Wayne_Weilnau]

Power capping or budgeting is a method to limit the amount of power consumed by 
a system.  Since power_used=heat-dissipated, it is also a method to limit the 
amount of heat generated.  When a system's power consumption approaches the 
user specified cap, the system takes action to limit the amount of power 
consumed.  The primary action is to slow (throttle) the process, although other 
mechanisms are used as well.  When the actions are taken, there will be a 
decrease in the performance of the system.  (There is no impact to system 
performance when power consumption is not near or at the cap.)  The "amount" of 
cap that can be applied depends on the system configuration.  Systems with the 
all processor sockets populated with the highest performance processors will 
have the greatest capping range.

The power cap can be set via OpenManage Server Administrator, iDrac, Deployment 
Toolkit, etc.

Wayne Weilnau
Systems Management Technologist
Dell | OpenManage Software Development

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Wiley Sanders
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:34 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: R510 "power capping" and "power budgeting"?

The marketing data sheet for the R5120 state: "The R510 also can be configured 
to include features such as power capping, power inventory and power budgeting 
to aid in the management of power within your environment."

What is this "power capping" and "power budgeting" and how can I get some? :-)

At any rate, the R510 is fully loaded (2 CPUS and 14 disks) and still uses only 
434W peak and only 2.5A idle after booting, according to the iDRAC. We're 
running RedHat.

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R510 "power capping" and "power budgeting"?

[Wiley Sanders]

The marketing data sheet for the R5120 state: "The R510 also can be
configured to include features such as power capping, power inventory and
power budgeting to aid in the management of power within your environment."

What is this "power capping" and "power budgeting" and how can I get some?
:-)

At any rate, the R510 is fully loaded (2 CPUS and 14 disks) and still uses
only 434W peak and only 2.5A idle after booting, according to the iDRAC.
We're running RedHat.

Thanks --w
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Re: GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?

[J. Epperson]

On Thu, July 8, 2010 11:18, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 8 Jul 2010, at 14:52, James Bensley wrote:
>> ... 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?
>

Stroller gave an extensive and expansive reply, with lots of good info,
trimmed for brevity here.

What James wants to do appears not to require fooling around with the
physical disk partitions, and I'd expect to be able to do it using the
Windows Logical Disk Manager.  You'd do the equivalent with the LVM
utilities if it were a Linux LV setup.  It appears that what's called a
Logical Volume here corresponds to a Linux Volume Group, and the
partitions C: and P: look like what Linux calls a logical volume.

Gparted can deal with NTFS laid directly onto physical disk partitions,
but I'd be astonished if it could see through the Logical Disk Manager
layer to deal with them.  Note that if you were dealing with filesystems
directly on disk partitions, you would not be able to shrink the second
partition and stretch the first one, you'd have to blow away the second
one, stretch the first one, recreate the second one, and reload its data.

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Re: GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?

[Stroller]

On 8 Jul 2010, at 14:52, James Bensley wrote:
> ...
> 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?

I've done this on a PowerEdge 2800, with a Perc4, I think.

Chances are the the Linux LiveCD will recognise the RAID controller  
and see the logical volumes as sda, sdb &c. As per Timo's reply, which  
has arrived before I'm able to finish typing.

If your first choice of LiveCD doesn't work, try a couple of recent  
Knoppix CDs, System Rescue CD &c.
See some hints in this post: 
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=13903


I advise you to take backups of the Windows system before you start.  
Of all drives / LVs / partitions. IMO the best way is just to dd all  
logical drives of=/mnt/whatever/file.img to a couple of external USB  
hard-drives. This requires overnight operations or long downtime, but  
GParted is not warrantied.


You may be able to shrink the P: partition from within Windows 2003,  
using Management > Disks &c. If you have this option I advise you to  
do so. If you need to move the start point of P: using GParted I  
advise you to do so and reboot into Windows before tacking the resize  
of the C: drive.

I believe the C: partition in Server 2003 presents some special  
difficulties. I believe that after making the enlargement using  
GParted (and after applying those changes), but *before rebooting to  
Windows* you need to then shrink it again to make Windows recognise  
the changes.

You only need to shrink it very slightly - i.e. enlarge from 10gig to  
20gig, then reduce the partition size by 100meg - but this is  
necessary to make GParted work correctly on Server 2003 C: drives.  
Otherwise the partition will be seen as larger in Computer Management  
 > Disk Management, but not in Windows Explorer, which will show it at  
its original size. There are lots of documented instances of this  
phenomenon all over the GParted forums and elsewhere. The two resizes  
need to be applied separately in such a way that separate actual  
operations are performed by GParted. I think that after you have made  
the two resizes and reboot to Windows, chkdsk will be triggered  
automatically at first boot.

So your comment - "seems a bit far fetched to me?" - no, not at all.  
The LVs are a standard feature on this RAID card, which is (surely)  
supported under Linux. NTFS and multiple partitions are both supported  
by GParted. The problem is that it's all a little bit fiddly, and one  
has to be cautious. This is certainly not as quick and easy as using  
Partition Magic on an XP Home PC.

I took multiple attempts performing this operation, imaged backups of  
the drives each step of the way, and it took me quite a lot of time.  
Valuing my time at £50 per hour (charged to the client) it would  
probably have been cheaper to buy a proprietary partitioning utility  
for Windows Server - I think there was one (the server version of  
Partition Magic?) that seemed like it would do the job for about £200.  
The C: partition on Server 2003 is a bit special, though, so I'm not  
sure that all proprietary partitioning utilities handle it.

My conclusion was that having multiple LVs on a single array is a bit  
shit - if you can afford that rackspace you're better of using extra  
drives, and IMO a separate array per partition (I just don't generally  
bother much with partitions). But that's tangental to your question.

Stroller.


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Problems getting OpenManage SA installed on PE2650 running CentOS 5.5

[Keith Ketchum]

Hello. I'm having trouble getting Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to
run on my Dell PE2650 running CentOS 5.5. Currently v6.2 is installed (I've
tried older versions too, none sufficiently successful). When I try to start
the services I get this:

[r...@pe2650 /]# srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting mptctl:
Waiting for mptctl driver registration to complete:
   [  OK  ]

Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu: [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver: Already started  [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Failed to start because system is not supported
dsm_om_shrsvc: DSM SA Shared Services cannot start on an unsupported system.
See the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix for a list of supported
systems.
Starting DSM SA Connection Service:[  OK  ]

>From what I've been able to
findOMSA
should work on CentOS. Version 5.2 is running on another CentOS box
running 5.4 but I could not get that version installed on the PE2650 (which
was running CentOS 5.4 at the time). At boot, I get this:

Jul  7 13:48:03 pe2650 udevd-event[31439]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed
Jul  7 13:48:03 pe2650 udevd-event[31442]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed
Jul  7 13:48:04 pe2650 udevd-event[31457]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed
Jul  7 13:48:04 pe2650 udevd-event[31458]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed
Jul  7 13:48:04 pe2650 udevd-event[31459]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed
Jul  7 13:48:04 pe2650 udevd-event[31466]: run_program: exec of program
'/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/dataeng.hotplug' failed

I've updated the BIOS to the latest version and run update_firmware
following the instructions here.
No difference. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 08 July 2010, Tim Small wrote:
> Blake Hudson wrote:
> > Tim Small wrote:
> >> I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives,
> >> but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using?
> >
> > I recently purchased a couple Dell branded 2TB SATA drives. They are
> > Hitachi's - HDS72202A28A.
>
> Interesting - thanks for that - any idea if they were pulls from
> server-class, or desktop-class Dell hardware?  The reason I ask is that
> whilst Google come up with a blank for that part number, the non-Dell
> 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (i.e. desktop-class drive) is the HDS722020ALA330,
> whereas their Ultrastar drives have the part number HUA722020ALA330...
>
> Anyone else had any 1TB or 2TB SATA drives in Poweredges?

We've seen both Hitachi and Seagate 2T drives from Dell.

/Peter


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Re: GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?

[James Bensley]

Excellent, I will it try soon, this is some planned downtime coming up
in a couple of weeks but obviously I don't want to find out on the
night its not going to work ;)

Yeah I mean we use CentOS on our Dell servers and they all work great
with our Perc 5/i's but I don't know what the state of affairs with
GParted Specifically was but thanks for the info, some food for
thought!

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Re: GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?

[Tino Schwarze]

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,

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Re: Drive lockout /w newer controllers

[Stroller]

On 8 Jul 2010, at 14:24, Drew Weaver wrote:

> Is anyone aware if the newer controllers now support non dell  
> branded drives or are we still waiting for this?

A user posted on the Dell Community site yesterday saying that the  
latest firmware unlocked them.


http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/p/19324790/19718745.aspx#19718745

or http://preview.tinyurl.com/28b5lzr

See post by Belenar "replied on 07-07-2010 9:33 AM"


I'm only aware of this because I commented on the policy earlier in  
that thread and still subscribed.

Stroller.

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PowerEdge training for skipping level 1 and 2 phone scripts?

[Eugene Vilensky]

Hi,
What training courses are required for an organization to be able to
bypass level 1 and 2 hardware support scripts?

Thank you,
Eugene

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GParted Support for Dell PERC Cards?

[James Bensley]

Knowers-of-all;

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?

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Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

[Blake Hudson]

 Original Message  
Subject: Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers +
onboard SATAoptions?
From: Tim Small 
To: Blake Hudson 
Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Date: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:54:59 AM
> Blake Hudson wrote:
>   
>> Tim Small wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives,
>>> but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using?
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>> I recently purchased a couple Dell branded 2TB SATA drives. They are
>> Hitachi's - HDS72202A28A.
>>   
>> 
> Interesting - thanks for that - any idea if they were pulls from
> server-class, or desktop-class Dell hardware?  The reason I ask is that
> whilst Google come up with a blank for that part number, the non-Dell
> 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (i.e. desktop-class drive) is the HDS722020ALA330,
> whereas their Ultrastar drives have the part number HUA722020ALA330...
>
>   
These came mounted to sleds for 19xx/29xx servers. So I assume they were
server pulls.

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Re: Drive lockout /w newer controllers

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Since the 6th I'm seeing the updates available, installed in on one
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Unfortunately they are not available true UEFI yet, as that catalog file
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Op 8-7-2010 15:24, Drew Weaver schreef:
>
> Is anyone aware if the newer controllers now support non dell branded
> drives or are we still waiting for this?
>
>  
>
> thanks,
>
> -Drew
>
>  
>
>
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Drive lockout /w newer controllers

[Drew Weaver]

Is anyone aware if the newer controllers now support non dell branded drives or 
are we still waiting for this?

thanks,
-Drew

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Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

[Steve Thompson]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Tim Small wrote:

> Anyone else had any 1TB or 2TB SATA drives in Poweredges?

Yes, from Dell: HITACHI HUA721010KLA330 (1TB).

Steve

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Re: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?

[Tim Small]

Blake Hudson wrote:
> Tim Small wrote:
>   
>> I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives,
>> but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using?
>>   
>> 
> I recently purchased a couple Dell branded 2TB SATA drives. They are
> Hitachi's - HDS72202A28A.
>   

Interesting - thanks for that - any idea if they were pulls from
server-class, or desktop-class Dell hardware?  The reason I ask is that
whilst Google come up with a blank for that part number, the non-Dell
2TB Hitachi Deskstar (i.e. desktop-class drive) is the HDS722020ALA330,
whereas their Ultrastar drives have the part number HUA722020ALA330...

Anyone else had any 1TB or 2TB SATA drives in Poweredges?

Cheers,

Tim.


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