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 one of the NICs, enter the BIOS of the
workstation and select the embedded hardware and configure the nics for
PXE, then you need to change the boot order to NIC0 and NIC1 (if you set
both to PXE).
I do not have a Dell that I can reboot currently to provide step by
steps, so I apologize for that. Though I do have a hand at xCAT and non
IBM hardware, running it on workstations leaves you without power
management and stats polling of the node since that traffic talks to the
IPMI device directly. so commands like "rpower node1 on" will not work
but "rpower vm1 on" will if vm1 is a virtual machine running on node1
(as that talks via qemu/ESX API/or XENs interface.
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Thank You,
Frank Moss
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
314|292.9130
[email protected]
http://nine13tech.com
http://twitter.com/nine13tech
Projects of note:
IBM Smart Cloud, USTRANSCOM CDE Developer Cloud, SavvisCloud
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