Re: [CentOS] raid 1 question

2013-03-07 Thread Paras pradhan
PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > >> One question: >> >> During the install, do I install grub on sda or md0? >> >> > Install grub on sda and sdb. > Installing GRUB on the mbr of both disks ensures that your system can still > boot if one disk has failed. > &g

Re: [CentOS] raid 1 question

2013-03-07 Thread Paras pradhan
One question: During the install, do I install grub on sda or md0? Paras. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > I don't get a grub so I can't issue "c" . > > Paras. > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Timo Schoeler > wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] raid 1 question

2013-03-07 Thread Paras pradhan
I don't get a grub so I can't issue "c" . Paras. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: > On 03/07/2013 05:30 PM, thus Paras pradhan spake: > >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> I have a server with 2 disks. Installed centos 5.9 with raid1. I &g

[CentOS] raid 1 question

2013-03-07 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I have a server with 2 disks. Installed centos 5.9 with raid1. I created /dev/md0 to hold "/" and /dev/md1 for swap and nothing else. Grub is installed on /dev/md0. After the successful installation, the server does not boot. I don't see the boot loader . I see a blank cursor blinking. What

Re: [CentOS] bond of bonds

2011-11-15 Thread Paras pradhan
What about BASP? Anyone using it ? ftp://ftp.dell.com/app/1q03-Bhu.pdf Paras. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > On 15 November 2011 13:08, Fred Wittekind wrote: > >> You can bridge two bonds together, and enable STP to prevent a loop. >> Although, don't get it wrong

[CentOS] bond of bonds

2011-11-14 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I am trying to use Link-aggregation with redundancy between switches that doesnot support SMLT in switches. I have 4 network ports. First two are connected to a switch and LACP/LAG is enabled. Third and Fourth ports connect to another switch with another LAG group. I was thinking create two

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-29 Thread Paras pradhan
Lamar, Thanks for the info. Paras. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, September 26, 2011 11:18:06 AM Paras pradhan wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> > May I ask what sort of SAN? >> Its a Hitachi OpenV fibr

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi Lamar, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 04:29:39 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >> This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage >> administrator if this has been re mapped or any similar events and he >> veri

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
opps thats a typo.. the 3rd partition is yes 1.1TB and not 10GB. sorry. Paras. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/23/11 1:32 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >> You mean the newer windows will create the partition schema as we are >> seeing it now? And yo

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Paras pradhan wrote: >>> >  Here is o/p John >>> > >>> >  Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >>> >      Flags >

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
3:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:44:58 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >> Thanks for your detailed suggestion. Yes thats a GPT .. the o/p is from >> parted. > > Is this a removable or some sort, like USB, firewire, eSATA, hot-plug SCSI, > Fibre-channel

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:25:10 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >> Here is o/p John >> >> Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >>    Flags >>  1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB               Microsoft res

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > *snip* > >> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very >> very restricted. > > Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open? > What CLI tools to f

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
Paras. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/22/11 3:48 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Need help on data recovery. >> >> Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that >> doesnot make any sense.

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > >> To: CentOS mailing list >> From: Paras pradhan >> Subject: [CentOS] data recovery >> >> Hi, >> >> Need help on data recovery. >> >

[CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, Need help on data recovery. Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that doesnot make any sense. Its a 1.8TB in size and had only one single partition. Now I can see 3 partitions sde1, sde2 and sde2 of sizes 130M, 140GB and 10GB. Is there any way to recover data from

[CentOS] HBA port

2011-09-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I have a host which is connected to SAN via single Fibre channel HBA (qlogic). I have several LUNS assigned to this (sdc, sdd). I added another single port HBA to this host. I can now see two world wide names. Now the confusion is which world wide name does sdc and sdd is/was using. scsi_id

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-15 Thread Paras pradhan
wrote: >  On 10/15/2010 1:10 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>  On 10/15/2010 12:44 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: >>>> On Thursday 14 October 2010, Paras pradhan wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> I hav

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-15 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 15/10/2010 10:36, John Doe wrote: > > From: Paras pradhan > > I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id > represents which physical port. Any way to find this? > > Unless you are 100% sure t

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-15 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2010, Paras pradhan wrote: > ... >> I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id >> represents which physical port. Any way to find this? > > Have a look at the "-p&qu

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-14 Thread Paras pradhan
represents which physical port. Any way to find this? Thanks! Paras. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:53 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Paras pradhan > >> I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. > > Maybe try to have one and p

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-13 Thread Paras pradhan
0026b9662f45 Paras. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 10/13/2010 5:26 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. But when >> I do ifconfig eth1 I can see output as below. If I do

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-13 Thread Paras pradhan
There are eight nics. But i don't get output of all of eth0 to eth7. Paras. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >  On 10/13/10 3:26 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. But when

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-13 Thread Paras pradhan
was found on boot (you have 2 or more > network interfaces). > eth12 does due to you not have 13+ nic's or did not map a network device to > be eth12. > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Paras pradhan > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't have ifcfg-e

[CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-13 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. But when I do ifconfig eth1 I can see output as below. If I do ifconfig eth12 , I don't see anything which i am assume is normal. eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:E8:44:DB:CC BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Met

Re: [CentOS] multipath troubleshoot

2010-09-21 Thread Paras pradhan
Reboot in to the latest kernel fixed this issue. Paras. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Hi, > My storage admin just assigned a Lun (fibre) to my server. Then re scanned > using > > echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host5/issue_lip > > e

[CentOS] multipath troubleshoot

2010-09-17 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, My storage admin just assigned a Lun (fibre) to my server. Then re scanned using echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host5/issue_lip echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host6/issue_lip I can see the scsi device using dmesg But mpath device are not created for this LUN Pleas see below. The last 4 shou

Re: [CentOS] Bonding modes

2010-01-13 Thread Paras pradhan
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:36 PM, nate wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: > > Thanks nate. > > > > Right now I am not concerned with the load balancing. I have few cluster > > nodes and if I run mode1 , then the failover time may lead to cluster > > timeout. I have n

Re: [CentOS] Bonding modes

2010-01-13 Thread Paras pradhan
cluster can afford that and I will stick with mode 0. Is there a way to change this time/durartion ? Thanks Paras. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, nate wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: > > Nate, > > > > Thanks for you input. 802.3ad seems better but I am not in a position to > &

Re: [CentOS] Bonding modes

2010-01-13 Thread Paras pradhan
Nate, Thanks for you input. 802.3ad seems better but I am not in a position to terminate both links in the same switch or same stack. What about mode 6? Thanks Paras. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM, nate wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: > > I have a bonded interface running in mode 1

[CentOS] Bonding modes

2010-01-13 Thread Paras pradhan
I have a bonded interface running in mode 1 which is active/passive and no issue with this. I need to change it to mode 0 for active/active setup. Does mode 0 is dependent on the switches configuration? My setup is: 2 links from bonded interface is connected to different switches. When I change to

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-12 Thread Paras pradhan
multibus path_checkerreadsector0 getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -p0x80 -s /block/%n" } } [r...@cvprd1 etc]# Thanks ! Paras On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Upgrding the kernel to 2.6.18-164.10.1.

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-12 Thread Paras pradhan
Upgrding the kernel to 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5xen brought back /dev/dm-* and now multipath -ll has the ouput. I am curious about what has caused the lost of /dev/dm* in my previous kernel. Any ideas? Paras. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Yes every thing'

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-11 Thread Paras pradhan
m_log Thanks Paras. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM, nate wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Somehow I do not see any out put using multipath -l or multipath -ll . > But I > > can see using dry run ie multipath -d. > > > > Also I do not se

[CentOS] multipath

2010-01-11 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi. Somehow I do not see any out put using multipath -l or multipath -ll . But I can see using dry run ie multipath -d. Also I do not see /dev/dm-* It was there before. How do I re claim it. Thanks! Paras. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Thanks for the Link Ray. One thing I am confused is... "failover manual" means whenever there is a link failure this will case the host to be rebooted? Paras. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:45:14AM -0600, Paras pradhan wrote

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Paras pradhan
"0" # hardware_handler "0" # path_grouping_policy group_by_prio # failback immediate # rr_weight uniform # rr_min_io 1000 # path_checker readsector0 # } Thanks Paras. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:37:25AM -0600

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Per, Yes I have a device mapper out of my detected LUNS. My storage is Hitachi OpenV . My multipath.conf files looks like below. Do I need to add anything to it since failover is not working. When I unplugg the cable in the 1st port of my HBA... my server reboots and I don't know what is causing t

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
I did create the device mapper for multipathing but while testing failover is not working. So my concern is with the hba driver since I am seeing more than expected. Thanks Paras On Thursday, January 7, 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:01

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi Rajagopal, Do you mean to say this is typical and is resolved after we use device mapper multipathing? Paras. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Paras pradhan > wrote:

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > On 1/8/10 7:21 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Eero Volotinen > <mailto:eero.voloti...@iki.fi>> wrote: > > > > On 1/8/10 6:38 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > >

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > On 1/8/10 6:38 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > My CentOS 5.4 box has a single HBA card with 2 ports connected to my > > Storage. 2 Luns are assigned to my HBA card. Under /dev instead of > > seeing 4 devices I can see 1

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Paras pradhan > wrote: > > My CentOS 5.4 box has a single HBA card with 2 ports connected to my > > Storage. 2 Luns are

[CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-07 Thread Paras pradhan
My CentOS 5.4 box has a single HBA card with 2 ports connected to my Storage. 2 Luns are assigned to my HBA card. Under /dev instead of seeing 4 devices I can see 12 devices from sdb to sdm. I am using qlogic driver that is bulitin to the OS. Has any one seen this kind of situation? Paras

[CentOS] Access host from host

2009-10-06 Thread Paras pradhan
HI, I don't know if this is the right place to ask but here is what I am looking for. I have a centos 5.3 server in DMZ . All of the access to and fro is blocked. I have someother servers in my network which they can access to my server at DMZ. Now to connect to the server "directly" at DMZ (ssh

[CentOS] lvremove killed

2009-01-30 Thread Paras pradhan
hi, My volume group is vg. Inside that i have around 10 lvm partitions (each of 100GB). When I try to remove partitions using lvremove /dev/vg/lvm1 It acts like the machine freezes and after a long time the lvremove process gets killed saying "Killed" Whats wrong here. I don't see anything in

[CentOS] relocation, migration

2008-08-29 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I am running a cluster having 2 nodes using red hat cluster suite. node 1 has a para virtualized guest(centOS) running under Xen. My question is when node1 is rebooted, guest is automatically relocated to node 2 . Instead of relocation, is migration possible in this case which can result in Ze

Re: [CentOS] HP ILO Fence Configuration

2008-08-05 Thread Paras pradhan
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Balaji wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Currently i am using HP x6600 Server and I have installed RHEL4 Update 4 >> AS Linux and >> RHEL4 Update 4 Support Cluster Suite in my server >> > > if you're using RHEL AS and RH Cluster