Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ben Rockwood > > If you're still having issues go into the BIOS and disable C-States, if you > haven't already. It is responsible for most of the problems with 11th Gen > PowerEdge. I did

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
If you're still having issues go into the BIOS and disable C-States, if you haven't already. It is responsible for most of the problems with 11th Gen PowerEdge. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-03 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 03.01.11 19:41, schrieb Edward Ned Harvey: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach Well a couple of weeks before christmas, I enabled the onboard bcom nics on my R610 again, to use them as IMPI ports - I didn't even u

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach > > Well a couple of weeks before christmas, I enabled the onboard bcom nics > on my R610 again, to use them as IMPI ports - I didn't even use them in You don't have to enable t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2011-01-03 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 22.12.10 18:47, schrieb Lasse Osterild: I've just noticed that Dell has a 6.0.1 firmware upgrade available, at least for my R610's they do (they are about 3 months old). Oddly enough it doesn't show up on support.dell.com when I search using my servicecode, but if I check through "System S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-22 Thread Lasse Osterild
I've just noticed that Dell has a 6.0.1 firmware upgrade available, at least for my R610's they do (they are about 3 months old). Oddly enough it doesn't show up on support.dell.com when I search using my servicecode, but if I check through "System Services / Lifecycle Controller" it does find

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-12 Thread Markus Kovero
> Oh well. Already, the weird crash has happened again. So we're concluding > two things: > -1- The broadcom nic is definitely the cause of the crash. > and > -2- Even with the new "upgrade" downgrade, the problem is not solved. > So the solution is add-on intel nic, and disable broadcom integ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > But a few days ago, Dell released a new firmware upgrade, from version 5.x > to 4.x. That's right. The new firmware is a downgrade to 4. > > I am going to remove my int

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-11 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 10.12.10 19:13, schrieb Edward Ned Harvey: From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] It has been over 3 weeks now, with no crashes, and me doing everything I can to get it to crash again. So I'm going to call this one resolved... All I did was disable the built-in Broadcom netwo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] > > It has been over 3 weeks now, with no crashes, and me doing everything I > can to get it to crash again. So I'm going to call this one resolved... > > All I did was disable the built-in Broadcom network cards, and buy an add- > on Intel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:sh...@nedharvey.com] > > I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time.  It crashes about once > per week.  I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and > reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean. It has been over 3 weeks now, with no crashes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-11-01 Thread Brian Kolaci
I've been having the same problems, and it appears to be from a remote monitoring app that calls zpool status and/or zfs list. I've also found problems with PERC and I'm finally replacing the PERC cards with SAS5/E controllers (which are much cheaper anyway). Every time I reboot, the PERC tel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
Congratulations Ed, and welcome to "open systems…" Ah, but Nexenta is open and has "no vendor lock-in." That's what you probably should have done is bank everything on Illumos and Nexenta. A winning combination by all accounts. But then again, you could have used Linux on any hardware as well

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:50:16PM +, Markus Kovero wrote: > > > Add about 50% to the last price list from Sun und you will get the price > > it costs now ... > > Seems oracle does not want to sell its hardware so much, several > month delays with sales rep providing prices and pricing nowhe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-26 Thread Markus Kovero
> Add about 50% to the last price list from Sun und you will get the price > it costs now ... Seems oracle does not want to sell its hardware so much, several month delays with sales rep providing prices and pricing nowhere close to its competitors. Yours Markus Kovero _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-26 Thread Jens Elkner
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:06:53AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: > On 10/26/10 01:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > >>boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > >> > >>Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 25.10.10 21:06, schrieb Ian Collins: On 10/26/10 01:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendor. +1 Sun hardware costs more, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/26/10 01:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendor. +1 Sun hardware costs more, but it's worth it, if you want to simp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread David Magda
On Mon, October 25, 2010 08:38, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins >> >> Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendor. > > +1 > > Sun hardware costs more, but it's worth it,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/2010 3:39 AM, Markus Kovero wrote: > > Any other feasible alternatives for Dell hardware? Wondering, are these issues mostly related to Nehalem-architectural problems, eg. c-states. > So is there anything good in switching hw vendor? HP an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendor. +1 Sun hardware costs more, but it's worth it, if you want to simply assume your stuff will work. In my case, I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Markus Kovero [mailto:markus.kov...@nebula.fi] > > Any other feasible alternatives for Dell hardware? Wondering, are these > issues mostly related to Nehalem-architectural problems, eg. c-states. > So is there anything good in switching hw vendor? HP anyone? In googling around etc ... Ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/25/10 08:39 PM, Markus Kovero wrote: You are asking for a world of hurt. You may luck out, and it may work great, thus saving you money. Take my example for example ... I took the "safe" approach (as far as any non-sun hardware is concerned.) I bought an officially supported dell server,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Markus Kovero
> You are asking for a world of hurt.  You may luck out, and it may work > great, thus saving you money.  Take my example for example ... I took the > "safe" approach (as far as any non-sun hardware is concerned.)  I bought an > officially supported dell server, with all dell blessed and solaris >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-25 Thread Markus Kovero
> That's precisely what I'm experiencing. System still responds to ping. > Anything that was already running in memory via network stays alive (cron > jobs continue to run) but remote access is impossible (ssh, vnc, even local > physical console...) And eventually the system will stop completely.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Stephan Budach [mailto:stephan.bud...@jvm.de] > > > What sort of problems did you have with the bcom NICs in your R610? > > Well, basically the boxes would hang themselves up, after a week or so. > And by hanging up, I mean becoming inaccessible by either the network > via ssh or the loca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-24 Thread Stephan Budach
Am 24.10.10 16:29, schrieb Edward Ned Harvey: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach I actually have three Dell R610 boxes running OSol snv134 and since I switched from the internal Broadcom NICs to Intel ones, I didn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Budach > > I actually have three Dell R610 boxes running OSol snv134 and since I > switched from the internal Broadcom NICs to Intel ones, I didn't have > any issue with them. I am sti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-23 Thread Stephan Budach
I actually have three Dell R610 boxes running OSol snv134 and since I switched from the internal Broadcom NICs to Intel ones, I didn't have any issue with them. budy ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Henrik Johansen
'Tim Cook' wrote: [... snip ... ] Dell requires Dell branded drives as of roughly 8 months ago. I don't think there was ever an H700 firmware released that didn't require this. I'd bet you're going to waste a lot of money to get a drive the system refuses to recognize. This should no longer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Kyle McDonald > > > > I'm currently considering purchasing 1 or 2 Dell R515's. > > > > With up to 14 drives, and up to 64GB of RAM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Kyle McDonald > > I'm currently considering purchasing 1 or 2 Dell R515's. > > With up to 14 drives, and up to 64GB of RAM, it seems like it's well > suited > for a low-end ZFS server. > > I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm currently considering purchasing 1 or 2 Dell R515's. With up to 14 drives, and up to 64GB of RAM, it seems like it's well suited for a low-end ZFS server. I know this box is new, but I wonder if anyone out there has any experience with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Oct 13 at 15:44, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] The 10g models are stable - especially the R905's are real workhorses. You would generally consider all your machines stable now? Can you easily pdsh to all those machines? kstat | grep current_

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-14 Thread Jiawei Zhao
We got a R710 + 3 MD1000s running zfs, with intel 10GE network card. There was a period of time that R710 freezing randomly, when we used osol b12x release. I checked in google and there were reports of freezes caused by a new mpt driver used in b12x release which could be the cause. Changed to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Henrik Johansen
'Edward Ned Harvey' wrote: From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] The 10g models are stable - especially the R905's are real workhorses. You would generally consider all your machines stable now? Can you easily pdsh to all those machines? Yes - the only problem child has been 1 R61

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] > > The 10g models are stable - especially the R905's are real workhorses. You would generally consider all your machines stable now? Can you easily pdsh to all those machines? kstat | grep current_cstate ; kstat | grep supported_max_cstates I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Henrik Johansen
'Edward Ned Harvey' wrote: I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time. It crashes about once per week. I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean. I am wondering if other people out there are using Dell hardware, with what degre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 13 Oct 2010, at 18:30, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org [mailto:edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org] On Behalf Of Eric D. Mudama Out of curiosity, did you run into this: http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/06/broadcom-nics-dropping- out-on-solaris-10/ I pers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > Dell R710 ... Solaris 10u9 ... With stability problems ... > Notice that I have several CPU's whose current_cstate is higher than > the > supported_max_cstate. One more d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Dell R710 ... Solaris 10u9 ... With stability problems ... Notice that I have several CPU's whose current_cstate is higher than the supported_max_cstate. Logically, that sounds like a bad thing. But I can't seem to find documentation that defines the meaning of supported_max_cstates, to verify th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org > [mailto:edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org] On Behalf Of Eric D. Mudama > > Out of curiosity, did you run into this: > http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/06/broadcom-nics-dropping- > out-on-solaris-10/ I personally haven't had the broadcom problem. Wh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Oct 13 at 10:13, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time. It crashes about once per week. I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean. I am wondering if other people out there are usi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Max Bruning
Hi Ed, I have been using the Dell r710 for a while. You might try disabling c-states, as the problem you saw is identical to one I was seeing (disk i/o stops working, other things are ok). Since disabling c-states, I haven't seen the problem again. max On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Edward Ned H

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Bruno Sousa
The BROADCOM NIC was also a problem faced by me, and if you downgrade the FW to the 4.x series everything is fine... But i think there's a new updated driver somewhere... Bruno On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:58:32 +, Markus Kovero wrote: >> How consistent are your problems? If you change something

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi , I have some Dell R710 and Dell R410 running OSOL (snv_130 or snv_134) attached to a Supermicro chassis, and the PERC it's only used for the root disks. I did got some issues with this type of servers, but here's what i did that made them quite stable : - disable virtualization support in B

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Markus Kovero
> How consistent are your problems? If you change something and things get > better or worse, will you be able to notice? > Right now, I think I have improved matters by changing the Perc to > WriteThrough instead of WriteBack. Yesterday the system crashed several > times before I changed that,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc. > > Do you have dedup on? Removing large files, zfs destroy a snapshot, or > a zvol and you'll see hangs like you are describing. Thank you, but no. I'm running so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Markus Kovero [mailto:markus.kov...@nebula.fi] > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:43 AM > > Hi, we've been running opensolaris on Dell R710 with mixed results, > some work better than others and we've been struggling with same issue > as you are with latest servers. > I suspect somekin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Steve Radich, BitShop, Inc.
Do you have dedup on? Removing large files, zfs destroy a snapshot, or a zvol and you'll see hangs like you are describing. Turn off dedup is best option.. If you want dedup get more ram, and more, and more, and.. add SSD cache device.. then it works ok usually.. Right now I'm fighting an o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Markus Kovero
> I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time.  It crashes about once > per week.  I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and > reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean.  > I am wondering if other people out there are using Dell hardware, with what > degree of success,

[zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I have a Dell R710 which has been flaky for some time. It crashes about once per week. I have literally replaced every piece of hardware in it, and reinstalled Sol 10u9 fresh and clean. I am wondering if other people out there are using Dell hardware, with what degree of success, and in wha