I have some Dell T-7600 servers to be used as stateless compute nodes. They're
reasonably well equipped - 8 core, 64GB memory. How do I need to configure the
IPMI or like interface to be able to boot them into a network-bootable image?
Sincerely,
John W. Hosie III301 509 1089 (M)301 869 6327
Unless I am misunderstanding the question, the IPMI interface itself has
little to do with if the node can PXE boot aside from making remote
management easier.
If, when you are booting the nodes into "runcmd=bmcsetup" it is failing,
then boot the node to shell (nodeset $node shell), login over
John,
On Dells for IPMI to work with xCAT they need to have a DRAC (Dell
Remote Access Card) installed. This allows xCAT to poll various
information from the hardware and control power. T76xx are workstations
and unless something changed do not have DRACs installed.
To boot these badboys from o
[xcat-user] Configuring IPMI-like interface on DELL.
Unless I am misunderstanding the question, the IPMI interface itself
has little to do with if the node can PXE boot aside from making
remote management easier.
If, when you are booting the nodes into "runcm
On 17/10/14 08:55, John Hosie wrote:
> I think I am probably missing some knowledge surrounding this. Is there
> a good place to look to get this set up right?
The xCAT wiki is the place to start I'd say.
> Just now I was able to look at how the TFTPD configuration was set up
> for the non-Dell
