Jeff, thank you very much. I didn't know about the DTK and the syscfg looks like a *very* useful tool.
Thanks, Daniel. * Jeff Layton <[email protected]> [11/03/2009 20:24]: > omconfig should be able to do it. You can also look on the support > site for the R410 and look for the Dell Deployment Toolkot (DTK). > The DTK is designed for enmasse BIOS changes. > > BTW - you might want to look at your other BIOS settings. Typically > for HPC, HT is turned off and there are a few other settings (Turbo On, > C-state's off, max power, and one other I think). I'm betting the account > team didn't put the HPC SKU on the order. The HPC SKU changes > the BIOS settings for you. > > Jeff > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: Daniel De Marco <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:19:04 PM > Subject: change bios settings via script > Hi, > > I just received a shipment of several R410 that I'm going to use in a > compute cluster and I just found out that the hyper-threading is turned > on by default in the bios. Linux sees the two quad cores as 16 logical > processors. I need to disable it in 40 or so machines. Is there any way > of disabling it via a script? ipmitool, racadm, omconfig, anything?? > > Thanks, Daniel. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [1][email protected] > [2]https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at [3]http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > 3. http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
