3rd-party drives with R510 PERC H700i

2010-08-09 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a Dell PowerEdge R710. Will the PERC H700i on the R710i reject 3rd-party disk drives? Thanks, Jason ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Pleas

Re: IPMI

2010-08-04 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 08/04/2010 02:12 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: > > There are a number of great monitoring systems which are at their core > using nagios to monitor things. I would suggest one of these over just > a plain nagios install, since they layer a lot of stuff on top of nagios. > > Having said that, I do u

Re: Memory overcommit (was Magic SysRq Key Sequences over Remote DRAC5 Connection)

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > I'm looking for advice on using Magic SysRq Key Sequences over DRAC5 ssh(see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key for background reading on the > subject). > > We have Dell 1950 and 2950 servers with DRAC version 1.20 firmware, and > normally use putty or OpenSSH to

Re: non-Dell hard drives attached to PERC H700 and H800

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I don't work for Dell, but my boss received a similar email from our Dell rep. Bond Masuda wrote: > For a second there, I had to check if the post was done on April 1st or > not! I'm glad to hear it, but it would certainly be nice if a Dell > employee here could confirm this and make an official

Re: to access 4 Virtual Hosts from a public IP

2010-04-11 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Jason Edgecombe > wrote: > >> ok, I'm a little confused. Please confirm that I understand this correctly. >> >> You have 6 hosts: >> > Right > >> two physical machin

Re: to access 4 Virtual Hosts from a public IP

2010-04-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Tapas Mishra wrote: >> 1) for ssh, run the domU sshd's on different ports, then use iptables rules >> on dom0 to forward the ssh traffic to each domU >> > I have a doubt regarding how Dom0 behaves as gateway here.When I am on > a machine which is on same subnet as Dom0 is lets call it as B. >

Re: to access 4 Virtual Hosts from a public IP

2010-04-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Tapas Mishra wrote: > I have installed Debian and Xen and 4 Virtual Hosts are up which can > be accessed via doing and SSH to Dom0. > I have a few questions. > 1) I do not want to do an SSH to Dom0 always directly want to access > DomU's how to go for that? > 2) Want to have 4 websites running on

Re: RAID-5 and database servers

2010-03-12 Thread Jason Edgecombe
John G. Heim wrote: > From: "Jefferson Ogata" > >> *Again*, this is why if you have particular performance requirements, >> you should consult with your database vendor to determine what bandwidth >> and IOPS you need, and benchmark your gear using different RAID configs. >> You may find that R

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Please, email your Dell customer rep and complain about this! I did. I contacted my Dell customer rep and he forwarded my complain to the product support group. He said they may re-evaluate things if lots of people complain. (I can hope...) We don't have the Dell R710's, and I still complained

Re: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Jason Edgecombe wrote: > Stephan van Hienen wrote: >>> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8 >>> >>> Has anyone seen this problem before. >>> >> >> We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last

Re: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8

2010-01-31 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Stephan van Hienen wrote: >> Subject: R410's shipped out with BIOS showing 4 cores instead of 8 >> >> Has anyone seen this problem before. >> > > We had the same issue with 3 R510's received last week. > Some R710's received a couple of months ago had the correct bios setting. > I have seen

Re: NICs in RHEL / PE2850

2009-12-02 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Brian O'Mahony wrote: > I am setting up a 2850 to do some testing for moving our code repositories > over to SAN storage. I have a pe2850 with two onboard NICs and a dual port > PCI nic. All four ports are coming up as Intel e1000 ports. Is there any way > of telling from inside the OS which exa

Re: Running custom code on the DRAC

2009-11-24 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > Just some more info now that I've had a chance to look at the source > release in more detail. > > >> I've downloaded the .iso and checked it all out. Some code is missing >> (e.g. the C library) but other code for Dell's own utilities is >> included, which is

Re: idrac express vs enterprise?

2009-11-20 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Alexander Dupuy wrote: > Jason Edgecombe asked: >> In the Linux on Dell wiki, it mentions that the idrac6 can be used as >> a fencing device in an linux-ha setup. Can the idrac express be used >> for this, or is the idrac enterprise required? >> > > For fencin

using idrac express as a fencing device

2009-11-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
In the Linux on Dell wiki, it mentions that the idrac6 can be used as a fencing device in an linux-ha setup. Can the idrac express be used for this, or is the idrac enterprise required? Thanks, Jason ___ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@de

idrac express vs enterprise?

2009-11-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
What's the differences between the idrac express and idrac enterprise? Thanks, Jason ___ 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/fa