Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
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thus Ralph Angenendt spake:
 Timo Schoeler wrote:
 To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec
 ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and
 the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
 
 The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter
 in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on
 there too. 

I really never tried it; the machine itself is very nice for an
x86-based server, but the HBA itself didn't convince me (that is, I read
the documentation and decided that it's not enterprise class ;)...

 With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except
 if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do
 RAID1 or RAID0 :)
 
 Ralph

Best,

Timo

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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
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thus Drew spake:
 To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec
 ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and
 the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
 The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter
 in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on
 there too.

 With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except
 if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do
 RAID1 or RAID0 :)
 
 The 7k model on this one does RAID 5 and the two non-standard 5E  5EE
 versions. The performance on the contoller is not bad given that the
 RAID is hung off either the PCI-X133 or PCI-E busses (forget which).
 Both CentOS  Win2k03 performance is adequate.

Mine stuck in the PCI-X133 (the x345 doesn't have PCIe). It should be
able to provide decent performance. However, even given that decent
software for management is provided, I like to go the ``it's already
supported out of the box by the OS installed'' approch (I must confess
that I really like OpenBSD in this regard)...

 As an aside, I'm still running tests on Samba 3 as a AD domain member
 and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow
 the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for
 another list.

Best,

Timo

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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-29 Thread Ian Blackwell
Drew wrote:
 Hi there,

 I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/
 ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The
 hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so
 we're okay there.

 My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM
 ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?

 ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm
 encountering two errors.

 The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username  password
 then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error.
 I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4  1.6 and the same error both
 times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created
 according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I
 find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.

 The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest),
 the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course
 incorrect.

 As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting
 Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support  developerworks sites. The
 support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP
 50x errors.

   
Use mdadm as Timo suggests.  ServeRaid will only give you grief.

Ian
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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Timo Schoeler wrote:
 To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec
 ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and
 the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.

The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter
in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on
there too. 

With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except
if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do
RAID1 or RAID0 :)

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-29 Thread Drew
 To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec
 ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and
 the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.

 The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter
 in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on
 there too.

 With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except
 if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do
 RAID1 or RAID0 :)

The 7k model on this one does RAID 5 and the two non-standard 5E  5EE
versions. The performance on the contoller is not bad given that the
RAID is hung off either the PCI-X133 or PCI-E busses (forget which).
Both CentOS  Win2k03 performance is adequate.

As an aside, I'm still running tests on Samba 3 as a AD domain member
and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow
the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for
another list.



-- 
Drew

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie
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[CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-28 Thread Drew
Hi there,

I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/
ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The
hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so
we're okay there.

My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM
ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?

ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm
encountering two errors.

The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username  password
then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error.
I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4  1.6 and the same error both
times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created
according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I
find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.

The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest),
the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course
incorrect.

As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting
Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support  developerworks sites. The
support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP
50x errors.

-- 
Drew

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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Schoeler
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thus Drew spake:
| Hi there,
|
| I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/
| ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The
| hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so
| we're okay there.
|
| My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM
| ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?
|
| ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm
| encountering two errors.
|
| The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username  password
| then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error.
| I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4  1.6 and the same error both
| times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created
| according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I
| find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.
|
| The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest),
| the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course
| incorrect.
|
| As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting
| Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support  developerworks sites. The
| support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP
| 50x errors.

To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec
ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and
the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.

Software RAIDs are *heaven* compared to all those HBAs when it comes to
manageability (talking of DAS, here...).

Regards,

Timo

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Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote:
 Hi there,
 
 I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/
 ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The
 hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so
 we're okay there.
 
 My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM
 ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?
 
 ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm
 encountering two errors.
 
 The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username  password
 then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error.
 I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4  1.6 and the same error both
 times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created
 according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I
 find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.
 
 The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest),
 the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course
 incorrect.
 
 As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting
 Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support  developerworks sites. The
 support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP
 50x errors.

I have version 8.30 installed on some 336 servers and it seems to work 
fine - and I can run it on one box and access the others from the same 
interface.  As I recall, I just did an rpm install from a cd that came 
with one of the machines  - or maybe a later 3550 and it installed its 
own JVM and a shell script to start itself.  I haven't actually used it 
for anything but looking at the disk status since the volumes were set 
up with the bios tools, but the authentication and everything works at 
least up to that point.  I don't see anything special under /etc/pam.d 
but maybe that's new in 9.0.

-- 
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lesmikes...@gmail.com


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