[Linux-PowerEdge] Anyone on-list from Dell?
Is anyone from Dell on list? I am trying to get a question answered regarding a bug and the support wall is so strong. Thanks, -Drew ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I was successful at getting this working. The only thing that is annoying about DSU is that it doesn’t upgrade everything. Like the OS install driver packages, etc. Have you found a workaround for that? From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Klaus Steden Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:25 PM To: Stijn De Weirdt Cc: Linux PowerEdge Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Stijn, I am also interested. Any chance you could publish something on an online forum for posterity? I suspect some of my colleagues would also be interested, but I know they're not on the PE mailing list. cheers, Klaus On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:24 AM Stijn De Weirdt mailto:stijn.dewei...@ugent.be>> wrote: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] hi drew, i recenlty spend a bunch of time to something similar, and made it work based on a centos7. you can add the dsu yum repo files to the rootfs and make it work, including startup script to actually do the updates (and so much more). the size is not an issue (not sure why you think that, unless you converted the whole 1.8GB in an initrd), also making / writable is easy (again, unless it's a single big initrd) and 300MB of space is not big compared to some other vendors who need 10 times as much (and do not clean up afterwards!) i'll see what i can share (it does more than only updating firmware) if you are interested stijn On 12/30/19 6:35 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > I hate replying to my own posts, but I downloaded the SLI iso and converted > it to a pxeimage. It's 1.8GB which is way too large but I noticed that it has > a ramdisk for /var/cache/yum, is this where dsu automatically writes > everything? > > From: Linux-PowerEdge > mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com>> > On Behalf Of Drew Weaver > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 12:00 PM > To: 'Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com<mailto:Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com>' > mailto:Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com>> > Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > Hello, > > We have been struggling to use the baseboard management controller to do > firmware updates on servers as different DRAC versions have different > capabilities and its also pretty slow. > > We really like using dsu to do updates so we are trying to create a live > image that basically just runs DSU and then turns the server off. > > The issue I am running into is that dsu seems to be writing data to the / > partition and since this is a live image the filesystem goes read-only after > it writes about 300MB to the filesystem. > > Is there a way to make DSU only use /tmp or any other ramdisk based partition > when it runs? > > Thanks, > -Drew > > > > > ___ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com<mailto:Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com> > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com<mailto:Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I hate replying to my own posts, but I downloaded the SLI iso and converted it to a pxeimage. It's 1.8GB which is way too large but I noticed that it has a ramdisk for /var/cache/yum, is this where dsu automatically writes everything? From: Linux-PowerEdge On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 12:00 PM To: 'Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com' Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Hello, We have been struggling to use the baseboard management controller to do firmware updates on servers as different DRAC versions have different capabilities and its also pretty slow. We really like using dsu to do updates so we are trying to create a live image that basically just runs DSU and then turns the server off. The issue I am running into is that dsu seems to be writing data to the / partition and since this is a live image the filesystem goes read-only after it writes about 300MB to the filesystem. Is there a way to make DSU only use /tmp or any other ramdisk based partition when it runs? Thanks, -Drew ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
[Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image
[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Hello, We have been struggling to use the baseboard management controller to do firmware updates on servers as different DRAC versions have different capabilities and its also pretty slow. We really like using dsu to do updates so we are trying to create a live image that basically just runs DSU and then turns the server off. The issue I am running into is that dsu seems to be writing data to the / partition and since this is a live image the filesystem goes read-only after it writes about 300MB to the filesystem. Is there a way to make DSU only use /tmp or any other ramdisk based partition when it runs? Thanks, -Drew ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
RE: PowerEdge T710
It probably also will not see your NIC card. We gave up on Debian. -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Hermidio A. Rodriguez Chavez Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 4:49 PM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: PowerEdge T710 Hi all, Thanks in advance. i have this dell server and i like install debin Lenny on it, i have configured a RAID 0 enviroment but when the OS install arrive to the disc detec, it say that isn't a hard disc. I need extra driver for it? Please Help Me. Hermidio ___ 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
RE: PE 2900-III 'Rejecting I/O offline devices' Perc 6 CentOS 5.5
I should mention we have never had this issue when we weren't running the servers with 1 Disk RAID-0 VDs. We have hundreds of systems with RAID-1, etc that all work perfectly. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Pavel Mateja Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:44 AM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: PE 2900-III 'Rejecting I/O offline devices' Perc 6 CentOS 5.5 Hi, Hi, We have a CentOS 5.5 server that has two disks that are 'not raided' connected to the backplane. We are using debian stable. Dell support told us to create 1 disk RAID-0 volumes when we need to do this since there is no way to just have the drive pass through (like the SAS controllers do). We are running RAID1 on PERC 6/i in PE 2950. I have noticed that a lot of times when we do this it seems like there are problems with systems locking up with: Rejecting I/O to offline devices... We have to reboot the server to get it to come back. The drives don't go orange or anything the OS just has a freak out and has to be rebooted to recover. Anyone seen/fixed this before? Yes, we had same problem. RAID controller was replaced by Dell (twice :). -- Pavel Mateja ___ 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
R310 BMC woes
Hi, We ordered several R310s without DRAC cards because they are supposed to be inexpensive systems, and adding $300 to each server's cost adds an additional 25% to the total price. My main concern is the way that the BMC/IPMI interface works. It seems totally insane to me that there is no way to just assign one of the LOM nics to be the BMC/IPMI interface. Is there a technical reason why this isn't possible, or is it just something Dell did to sell more DRACs? We have no need for more than 1 NIC in our servers, and since all 11th Gen poweredge servers come with 2 NICs, it seemed like a total no brainer to just use 1 NIC for the network and 1 NIC for the IPMI/BMC. That way they could be cabled to two completely different networks. We don't want the management NIC or traffic to be visible to the operating system for security reasons. thanks, -Drew ___ 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
Dumping the BMC/DRAC event log without installing a bunch of software on R410 Ubuntu 10
Is there a way to view the event log in the BMC/DRAC without installing OMSA on an R410 with Ubuntu 10? thanks, -Drew ___ 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
Disk performance drop in new RHEL 5 kernel?
Hi there, I am testing some R510s /w PERC H700 that I am going to be using for storage systems. I am using a very basic benchmark (hdparm -tT /dev/sdb) to get a relative performance number between different disks (it doesn't have to be real specific, I just need to see percentages based on different physical media). Anyway, I noticed that if I run hdparm -tT /dev/sdb on RHEL 5.4 (2.6.18-164 (megasas 04-08-RH2)) in an average of 10 runs I get 825MB/sec, however if I update the OS to 5.5 2.6.18-194.11.1 (megasas 04.17-RH1) in an average of 10 runs I get 561MB/sec. I am trying to figure out if this is a real performance decrease or if there were changes made in the new kernel or driver that would cause hdparm to have an issue getting the disks to work hard. If I reboot with the older kernel it is always around 825MB, I can reproduce this over and over. I will also note that in Fedora 13 it is also around 825MB/sec. Has anyone seen this, any thoughts? thanks, -Drew ___ 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: Is IPMI-BMC always connected to NIC1?
Yeah, I was a little unhappy about it being locked to a particular port too. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Nabar Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:43 PM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: R410: Is IPMI-BMC always connected to NIC1? Is the IMPI / BMC IP always connected to the Gig1 port? Normally I use just a single physical ethernet connection but assign a different management IP to the same port so that hung machines etc. can be remotely rebooted. It works mostly ok but: I have a few machines where I am using the NIC2 interface. There it doesn't seem to work. Is the IPMI somehow tied to the Gig1 interface. ANy way to change it so that Gig2 also works? [I'm using Gig2 on some ports because a few of my servers came with the tab on the Gig1 damaged so that the connection remains lose. At that time I didn't think that this was a big deal but this might shut my ipmi options] -- Rahul ___ 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
Drive lockout /w newer controllers
Is anyone aware if the newer controllers now support non dell branded drives or are we still waiting for this? thanks, -Drew ___ 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: System Inventory/Catalogging
Not really, have others had success with this method? From: w ahlstros [mailto:wahlst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:48 AM To: Drew Weaver Cc: linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com Subject: Re: System Inventory/Catalogging have you tried parsing the output from the 'dmidecode' command? -- Scott Wahlstrom -- On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.commailto:drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: Are there any decent open source Linux software that work well with Dell servers that make it easy to catalog/inventory servers in a datacenter? Essentially all we need to do is: Take the server out of the box, boot it via the network, software collects all pertinent information about the server such as hardware, MAC addresses inserts it into $some_database_somewhere that we can eventually use later ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.commailto: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
RE: Network issue on servers containing BCM 5709 / 5716 cards resolved -
Isn't this already fixed in the latest kernels? At least that is what I heard. thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Nick Lunt Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:36 AM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: RE: Network issue on servers containing BCM 5709 / 5716 cards resolved - Hi, -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of narendr...@dell.com Sent: 25 May 2010 18:41 To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Network issue on servers containing BCM 5709 / 5716 cards resolved - Hello, Connectivity loss was observed under some heavy traffic conditions on RHEL 5.3/5.4/5.5 on servers containing BCM 5709/5716 cards. Work around: The issue is MSI-X specific. So passing disable_msi=1 to the bnx2 driver would prevent the issue from happening. RHEL 4.5 PE2950 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) # modinfo bnx2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko author: Michael Chan mc...@broadcom.com description:Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver license:GPL version:1.4.43-rh 49524544DE69B4B5647379F parm: disable_msi:Disable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) vermagic: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp SMP 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 depends: alias: pci:v14E4d164Asv103Csd3101bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d164Asv103Csd3106bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d164Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d164Csv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16AAsv103Csd3102bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16AAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16ACsv*sd*bc*sc*i* With options bnx2 disable_msi=1 in modprobe.conf then # modprobe -r bnx2; modprobe bnx2 I get the following error and the NIC will not ifup - kernel: bnx2: eth1: Cannot allocate firmware buffer for uncompression. I took the msi option out of modprobe.conf but the NIC would still not ifup, even restarting the network service did not get the NIC back online. I ended up leaving the option out of modprobe.conf and rebooting the server for this to work ! I hope to set the disable_msi option on a clients server to overcome a problem they are having, but I need to know why this error occurred on my test box first. Any help appreciated, Cheers Nick . __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5163 (20100601) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.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 ___ 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
They're all but indicating that they don't want server business with their recent acquisitions, they're moving into 'services'. Kace and Perot? Vs EDS and 3Com? um, nice try =) -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Jefferson Ogata Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:56 PM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers On 2010-02-16 17:46, Blake Hudson wrote: Attached was a pdf explaining the stringent quality control standards for Dell's HDDs. No apology, remorse, alternative solutions, etc. That's pretty funny considering the fairly high failure rate of Dell drives. If you actually check the SMART statistics you'll see the PERC often tries to pretend bad drives are just fine. For example I have a Dell-provided Seagate in a PE2950 right now that has logged 100 uncorrected write errors and 10 uncorrected read errors, and has failed a SMART long self-test. The PERC says 2 media errors and hasn't failed it out of the RAID. Well, I guess this is the year I start diving into HP or IBM gear. ___ 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
RE: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:36:54AM -0500, J. Epperson wrote: And UPSs! We must ensure that we have appropriately proprietarily conditioned power for our proprietary servers. And no third party replacement batteries either. Lord only knows what sort of corruption that could lead to. -- And, for our own good, we must be restricted to using Dell-branded enclosures... we can't take the risk that the holes in a lesser product might be out-of-kilter, slightly tweaking the chassis, causing memory and cards to edge out of their slots. Better get Dell-branded network cables, too. And Dell KVMs, Dell keyboards, Dell mice... Dell mousepads, too, just to absolutely ensure a positive computing experience... --- If I don't drive my dell car to my dell-tacenter I could face unintended acceleration!!! -Drew ___ 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
We haven't noticed this yet on R710s but ours have PERC6, As a customer of Dell who has hundreds of these, if we do notice this, we will be using something else in the future. It is plain too expensive, too slow, and too difficult to get drives if we need additional drives for our Dells, I also agree that SATA is SATA. Thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Stroller Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:26 AM To: Dell Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers On 5 Feb 2010, at 22:31, Philip Tait wrote: I just received my first Gen11 server, R710, with H700 PERC. I removed the supplied drives, and installed 4 Barracuda ES.2s. After doing a Clear Configuration in the pre-boot RAID setup utility, I can perform no operation with the drives - they are marked as blocked. Is Dell preventing the use of 3rd-party HDDs now? Thanks for posting this. That Dell are doing this seemed to be hinted at in another post a couple of days ago, and I wasn't sure if I was reading right. Out of concern that I might be miscomprehending I really wanted to do some homework before kicking up a fuss. I have to say I'm gob-smacked to read this confirmed. £79 ($123) for a 250GB SATA hard-drive is, these days, a little pricey. We can get those for £25 anywhere else, but we tolerated the mark-up when we ordered recently because Dell have always been good value to us otherwise - let them have their cream. We bought a handful of these small drives because we figured they'd include the caddies. Those are worth £25 or so to us (that's what we paid for secondhand caddies for a 4 year old server last month), so we bought a good number of low capacity drives to include those, expecting to upgrade the drives themselves in a year or two. Markups on larger drives are taking the piss, however. £220 for 1TB - £53 elsewhere, £740 for 2TB drives that are £100 from the local warehouse! And the commodity drives have longer warranties! Dell give only 1 year as standard, AND THE PRICE ISN'T EVEN THE POINT! The point is the lock-in - if you sell us something that takes SATA hard-drives, I expect ANY standard SATA hard-drive to run in it. Why wouldn't it? I have to say I'm a bit gob-smacked by this. Half of me wants to refuse to accept Dell's delivery on Monday, half of me figures this ain't such a big deal; we'll tolerate the limitation on this machine maybe it'll all blow over. I'm just completely WTF!?!? over this, I'm at a loss how to respond. We certainly won't buy another machine from Dell whilst they carry this policy. I just find it completely stunning that Dell, without some kind of a warning, would sell me a SATA computer that doesn't accept standard SATA drives. I've spent years defending Dell. I encounter people who assume from the price that Dells are low-quality mass-produced crap, and I correct them. When someone has (rarely) told me a horror story of shitty customer service from Dell, then I have replied that every manufacturer has some dissatisfied customers; that might not reassure the recipient of bad service, but I discourage other people I meet from taking these anecdotes at face value, and contrast with the great customer service I have always experienced from Dell. I cannot count the number of computers Dell have sold on my recommendation. In the last fortnight I have dropped a software product (for Windows) that I have deployed at hundreds of sites. It's no longer part of new installs, it's being removed replaced on systems as they come in for service. Other people I meet tell me they're dropping the same software now, too. I guess I saw this coming 18 - 24 months ago, when I was cussing the vendor for a new feature, and asking out loud what did they do _this_ for?. I was cussing them a year ago, and within the last 6 months the bugs in their software have *really* been taking the mickey. This really feels like Dell going the same way. I drafted a rant about that vendor in (I see from my notes) June 2008, and never quite got around to polishing it and blogging it. Hopefully, since I've found the time on this quiet Saturday morning to complete this email, someone at Dell will bother to read it. Stroller. ___ 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
