Re: PXE boot R900 via 10Gb Intel NIC?

2010-01-22 Thread Jefferson Ogata
On 2010-01-23 03:32, thomas_chena...@dell.com wrote: > Jefferson Ogata wrote: >> Anyone know how to PXE boot an R900 off of an Intel 10Gb optical NIC >> rather than one of the onboard copper NICs? > > Some Intel 10Gb optical NICs are bootable, but not necessarily all. For > bootable adapters, th

RE: PXE boot R900 via 10Gb Intel NIC?

2010-01-22 Thread Thomas_Chenault
Jefferson Ogata wrote: > Anyone know how to PXE boot an R900 off of an Intel 10Gb optical NIC > rather than one of the onboard copper NICs? Some Intel 10Gb optical NICs are bootable, but not necessarily all. For bootable adapters, the boot ROM needs to be programmed and enabled using a DOS-base

Re: PERC6/i vs. SAS6/iR performance testing?

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Cowger
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the perc cards have BB write caches and that the SAS cards do not, which would certainly have a very significant effect in iops. --M On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Kaerka Phillips wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone on the linux-poweredg

PERC6/i vs. SAS6/iR performance testing?

2010-01-22 Thread Kaerka Phillips
Hello, I was wondering if anyone on the linux-poweredge list has done any performance testing of same or similar hardware using the PERC6 vs. the SAS6 controller cards? I have 7 R805's, two of which have PERC6/i cards installed, and the other 5 have SAS6/iR cards installed. I've been working on

Re: How to reset BMC/ESM on PE1750

2010-01-22 Thread Kaerka Phillips
I've had this issue before with PE1750, PE1850's and a few 2850's. Most of the time, reapplying the ESM/BMC firmware fixes it, but in one case, I think we had to replace the ESM and riser card (I think I'm remembering this correctly). On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > H

PXE boot R900 via 10Gb Intel NIC?

2010-01-22 Thread Jefferson Ogata
Anyone know how to PXE boot an R900 off of an Intel 10Gb optical NIC rather than one of the onboard copper NICs? Thanks in advance. ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Ple

Re: Perc6 admin tools

2010-01-22 Thread Monty
> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) > > I can monitor those raid status using mpt-status but I can't modify the > Raid array to create new volumes while the system is running. > > With MegaCli on a perc5 I can manipulate the RAID array. > Is there such a tool fo

RE: Warranty or?

2010-01-22 Thread Brian O'Mahony
I also tell them that it's a production server that we cannot afford to bring down / interfere with (which they generally are tbf) B -Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Rahul Nabar Sent: 21 January 2010 22:50 T

Re: Disk status with IPMI over lan or SNMP from DRAC

2010-01-22 Thread Christian Appelgren
Christian Appelgren wrote: > Jason Ede wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- >>> boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Christian Appelgren >>> Sent: 18 November 2008 07:38 >>> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com >>> Subject: Re: Disk stat

performance of new H200 and H700 raid controllers

2010-01-22 Thread Lazy
Hi ! Any one had a chance to benchmark those against older SAS 6/iR and PERC 6/i ? -- Lazy ___ 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.del

How to update DELL SAS HBA driver / LSI Fusion MPT driver in Debian Lenny

2010-01-22 Thread Gido_Baumann
As in a Debian 5.0.3 (Lenny) standard installation the driver for DELL SAS HBA seems to be outdated I like to have I my production environment a newer version. [0.00] Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-19lenny2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (D