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 them.
Two of the same servers are running Ubuntu 10.04.1 and RHEL 5.4, several TB's of data have gone through the interfaces on those two boxes without a single glitch. So has anyone tried 6.0.1 yet, or is it simply v4.x repackaged with a new version number? - Lasse On 12/12/2010, at 14.39, Markus Kovero wrote: >> 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 integrated nic. > > And if I may conclude my own findings. > > "random crashes" and Broadcom issues are separate non-related problems afaik, > we have some R710's with Broadcom nics that seem to be stable over several > months and other R710's with cannot keep it together for even week or so. > Both have identical fw/bios versions. > > 1) there is/was problem with Broadcom nics loosing network connectivity with > every OS, including solaris, this was fixed by software patches in sol10 and > sol11 express, and non official driver update was made for snv_134. > workaround for this issue was to disable c-states from bios under > processor configuration. > 2) there is somekind of unstability issue not related to nics with latest > batch of R710 series servers, crashes occur randomly, but seemed to get fixed > in Solaris 11 Express, no idea on sol10 though. We have yet to test if this > is somehow related to processor/memory configuration being used, mind you > that software and firmware versions are identical on "stable" R710's and > crashing ones. > 3) there was also problems with system disk going missing suddenly (when > using sas 6ir), I think it's somewhat related to problem 2), happens rarely > though. > 4) Solaris 11 Express and latest R710's introduced new Broadcom problem, > random network hiccups. Disabling C-states does not help. Planning to open SR > for this, seems very much different from original problem (OS is not aware > what happens at all). > > My solution for issues would be not to use R710 in anything more serious, it > is definitely platform that has more problems than I'm interested in > debugging for (: > > Yours > Markus Kovero > > > - > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
