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
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
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
Sol11, but as of this morning, the system has entered the state again,
in which a successful login to the system was not anymore possible.
Neither logging in to the local console was possible - the system didn't
even prompt for the password.
So, just having the bcom nics present on the host seem to cause these
troubles, even if Sol11 doesn't have to deal with the nics for anything.
Cheers,
budy
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