Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] H740p JBOD
On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Remy Dernat wrote: We have a new server (PE R740xd) with a PERC raid card H740p mini. However, there is no HBA/JBOD mode avalaible. Indeed, we did not take care enough when we chose the raid card, although we wanted to do a Zfs array (with raid). I have been doing ZFS for about 3/4 years now on 9 servers each with a PERC card using RAID0. So far it has all worked exceedingly well; no noticeable problems. Steve ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
OMSA 6.3 issue
Many PE systems, 32 and 64 bit, running CentOS 5.5 and OMSA 6.1 and 6.3. With OMSA 6.1, an entry such as this in the /etc/omarolemap file: +omadmin * Administrator works to give members of the omadmin group Administrator access (group members come from LDAP). With OMSA 6.3, a similar entry in the /opt/dell/srvadmin/etc/omarolemap file no longer has the same effect; it appears to be ignored. This is not what the comments in this file claim. Known issue? Steve Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 186,282 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law ___ 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 T710
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, William Warren wrote: Debian isn't a bleeding edge distro but one built for stability. I'd wager they had the enterprise in linux long before redhat coined the enterprise linux term. Ubuntu is a good bleeding distro as is fedora..:) Redhat isn't bleeding edge either, and so the same can be said about CentOS. I have CentOS 5.5 install on our R710's, out of the box. Steve ___ 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: CentOS 5.5 - Deleted Partition
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Chris Adams wrote: If not, I'm not sure if there is a way to see what the running kernel thinks the partition table looks like. cat /proc/partitions might help. ___ 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: Recommendations for JBOD to add storage to my R410
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Rahul Nabar wrote: Any recommendations for a suitable JBOD model? See http://www.siliconmechanics.com, eg D53J. -Steve ___ 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: R300 auto negotiation
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Le 23/07/2010 11:05, Dave Ewart a écrit : On Friday, 23.07.2010 at 09:48 +0200, Robert von Bismarck wrote: From my experience, when you want to be certain, you must force 100mb networks to 100-full. Auto-neg is mostly hit'n miss, especially on high-end manageable switches like cisco, extreme networks or HP. Seriously? I've never seen the kind of behaviour you describe, I'm surprised. I agree with Robert. We had networks problems with servers in DC and once we force 100-full they disappear. I agree also. I've seen a lot of autoneg problems (HP servers) with Cisco switches, even at gig speeds. Never with PE and HP switches, though. Steve___ 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: 1-2TB SATA drives currently shipping with 11G servers + onboard SATA options?
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 ___ 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 Power Edge R710 with CentOS
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Tom Boland wrote: ... I had a 410 in to test, and I do believe it uses a different broadcom chip. This is one from an R710, as shown in lspci: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) I think yours will be a BCM 5716, and I'm not able to comment on how the drivers are for that chip. Indeed the R710 has BCM5709 and the R410 has BCM5716, but both (at least, the ones I have) are subject to similar issues, even under medium load. With disable_msi=1, they are both solid. CentOS 5.4. Steve Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law ___ 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
R710: clear SEL
Anyone know of a way to clear the event log of an R710 using OMSA? I know that it can be done with ipmitool, but I'm looking for a solution using omconfig (and not via the web interface). The documentation appears silent on this point. TIA, Steve ___ 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
Vendor ID?
I've just noticed that on all my PE2900 systems with Perc 5 or 6 controllers, an omreport storage pdisk always shows a Vendor ID of DELL, whether they are Dell-supplied disks or not. Is this always true? -s ___ 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, 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 -steve ___ 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 Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Philip Tait wrote: Is Dell preventing the use of 3rd-party HDDs now? This better not be true. We have an R710 on its way in which non-Dell drives are to be installed. If this is true, the R710 will be going back to Dell, and it will be the last Dell machine we ever order. Steve ___ 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 Fri, 5 Feb 2010, William Warren wrote: Perhaps it's more the cost of the 'official' drives that is the issue here, maybe Dell can make the prices a bit more reasonable. I know I'd be happy paying for the drives if they had technical benefits that weren't offset by stupidly high prices. OK Dell, what's the official word on this? If you're going to pull out the bullshit firmware argument, please tell me how all of the many PE2900's that I have run just fine, OMSA and all, with non-Dell drives. It's not that the Dell markup on drives is excessive; it's the principle (and the markup is waaay too high; Dell-supplied drives are more than double street price). This policy, if true, won't sell more disk drives; it will sell fewer servers. I have systems coming and need to know whether to cancel the orders. I'm not happy. Steve ___ 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
RAID expansion
CentOS 5.4 x86_64 OMSA 5.4 on a PE2900. I expanded a RAID-6 set by the addition of additional volumes through OMSA. All physical disks were in local slots attached to the same Perc 6/i (no MDx000). The entire disk /dev/sdX (no partitions) was previously made into a single LVM volume group, and remained active throughout this procedure. When completed, omreport storage vdisk reported the new and correct size. The new size was not otherwise available to the kernel, however: pvscan reported the old size, pvresize did not resize, /sys/block/sdX/size contained the old size. A pvresize resized the physical volume only after a reboot. What's the trick to making this work without a reboot? I have several RAID sets to resize, where rebooting is not an option. Thanks, Steve ___ 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: issues with bnx2 - NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, PJF wrote: On our new R410, randomly when eth0 is pushing more than 30Mbps of traffic the interface sometimes times out and shuts off: [...] This morning I found this post suggesting adding options bnx2 disable_msi=1 in /etc/modprobe.conf Yes, I have seen the same issue with R410's. Since using disable_msi=1 there have not been any further problems (about three months). Steve ___ 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: Determine interface's MAC address prior to OS install?
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Mark Whidby wrote: Adam Nielsen wrote: I think that's an option Dell provides. All out Dell desktop PCs come with a sticker with service tag, model, MAC address, order number. Presumably they can do the same with servers. I have about 40 PE2900 servers. All of them came with a sticker on the case with the MAC address printed on it. Steve Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 186,300 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law ___ 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
