Hi Marc, Install OpenManage Server Administrator on that system. It will provide you GUI or CLI interface to configure the SOL.
Here you go for OMSA latest release http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.2/bootstrap.cgi The following article might be useful for you http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040110-Zhuo.pdf Thanks, Chandrasekhar R Dell | OpenManage office +91 80 41178649 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:45 PM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 71, Issue 31 Send Linux-PowerEdge mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Linux-PowerEdge digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration (Ben Tisdall) 2. Re: R510 question - how many volumes supported on Perc H700? (Wiley Sanders) 3. Re: R510 question - how many volumes supported on Perc H700? (Robin Bowes) 4. Re: drac4's uses (Stroller) 5. RE: SAS 5/iR raid migration ([email protected]) 6. Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration (Ben Tisdall) 7. Serial over LAN (Marc Moreau) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:25:51 +0100 From: Ben Tisdall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks very much Tino & Patrick. I am guessing the same goes for the SAS6/iR too. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > SAS 5/iR does not allow for RAID Level Migration or Capacity Expansion (Reconfiguration in OMSA parlance). > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Tino Schwarze > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 AM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration > > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Ben Tisdall wrote: > >> I wonder if someone could confirm to me that non-destructive ?raid >> level migration (1 => 0) is NOT possible with the SAS5/iR controller? > > Such conversion would be very risky, to say the least. (In RAID1, you > have a copy of each data block on both disks, in RAID0, you distribute > data blocks evenly: block0 -> disk0, block1 -> disk1, block2 -> disk0, > block3 -> disk1 etc.) Apart from that, the SAS 5/iR is a rather stupid > controller with no fancy logic etc, so I guess it's simply not supported. > >> >From the lack of that option in VD menu I assume that is the case, >> unless it's matter of a driver version: >> >> Firmware Version ? ? ?00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00 >> Driver Version ? ? ? ?3.04.03 >> Minimum Required Driver Version ? ? ? 3.12.29.00 >> >> This is OM 6.2 on Fedora 6 (cannot be upgraded to suit unfortunately). > > OMSA or OS version shouldn't matter at all. > > Tino. > > -- > "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." > > www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de > www.tisc.de > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 19:36:03 -0700 From: Wiley Sanders <[email protected]> Subject: Re: R510 question - how many volumes supported on Perc H700? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks, looks like 6 volumes is probably supported. I plan on configuring it via the BIOS if at all possible. Of course, some benchmarking will be done before we put the box in production. The server today has about 15 million small files. (Another reason for splitting it up.) ZFS on Solaris doesn't have a problem with that. but I can tell you that the SUSE 9, + Escalade controllers + 7200 RPM sata drives (|-p) server that is being replaced does have a problem. It isn't just the hardware , there is a substantial performance difference between ext3 and XFS filesystems on the box, with XFS having a 10 or 15% edge. If I can get the controller in this new box to be the bottleneck I'll be happy. We have an R510 in production now as a file server, with one big RAID6 array, and so far I can get 500 or 600 iops/sec out of it, as far as benchmarking a production server goes. I'd be real happy to hit 800. -Wiley Sanders http://wsanders.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/attachments/20100519/ 38e1a651/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 00:55:39 +0100 From: Robin Bowes <[email protected]> Subject: Re: R510 question - how many volumes supported on Perc H700? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 20/05/10 00:35, Wiley Sanders wrote: > Is this just a limitation on the preconfigured RAID configs I can order, > a licensing restriction, or a true limitation on the number of volumes > that the H700 can support? I think it's the former. We bought a load of R410s with 4 disks in RAID10. We then bought another batch, exact same config, but were tld that we couldn't order them with RAID10, so we had to order them with RAID5 and reconfigure as RAID10 when they arrived. As it happened, half the batch came with RAID10 anyway! Depending on your application, it might be worth using RAID10, ie. creating a large stripe out of your mirrored pairs. Don't forget to buy battery-backed cache. R. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:56:26 +0100 From: Stroller <[email protected]> Subject: Re: drac4's uses To: Matthew Lenz <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 19 May 2010, at 05:27, Matthew Lenz wrote: >> ... >> IMO the significantly cool thing about the DRAC4 is the remote access >> screen viewer / console. You can see whatever is on the screen and >> operate the mouse from across the network, independently of the >> operating >> system. So you can do so even whilst the system is booting, you >> can enter >> the BIOS and you can even install the operating system across the >> network, using the virtual media facility. So if your server needs >> booting from a live CD, you can just put that in your laptop and >> use the >> laptop to control the server's screen. > > The virtual CD and console support are very interesting. Primary > reason I'm > looking into them. Our servers are in a data center that is 25 > miles one > way. I like to avoid it at costs. Rest assured, it works really very well indeed. I've used a couple of external network KVM units, or "KVM-IPs", whatever you prefer to call them, and the DRAC4 is really top-notch. >> As far as operating system support is concerned, it doesn't matter >> what >> o/s is installed on the server for using the remote access. But the >> machine you use to do the controlling / viewing will *probably* >> have to >> be using Windows. Macs certainly don't work. When the DRAC4 > > Windows desktop isn't a problem. It's the only downside of the DRAC, IMO. The 3rd-party KVM-IPs I've used have at least supported Macs; my current one allows viewing with a standard VNC client, which the DRACs do not, but does not offer any remote media. My last one (actually I still have it here, I need to sell it) offered remote media (including booting) by pasting the URL to a Samba share into its web-interface. You might have success with the Firefox under Linux, but only a specific version, on Redhat, was officially supported. > Does anyone know what the last DRAC 4's version's part number was? > Looks > like there was at least 4 versions of them released over the years. > Does > dell have a place on there site that lists all part numbers > available for > replacement? The one I have is the DRAC 4/I, don't know the part number, on a PowerEdge 2800. I would *assume* that different models of the 4, i.e. the 4/S or the 4/X or whatever, would be basically the same, offering the same facilities but for different models of PowerEdge. Not addressed to you, specifically, but for the benefit of others: watch out for the 2650s, which offered a DRAC option, but came with a "RAC" as standard. The RAC is rubbish, a poor relation to the DRAC, although not too bad as a freebie - the viewer is really inadequate, and IME may not work when you need it to; the remote power functions are all I've found it good for. Stroller. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:39:27 -0500 From: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: SAS 5/iR raid migration To: <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <3858ca5b52d32044b672d8997ed536f1077c2fd...@ausx7mcps301.amer.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Correct. Reconfiguration is supported by the PERC series of controllers only (with the exception of the PERC H200). -----Original Message----- From: Ben Tisdall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:26 PM To: Boyd, Patrick Cc: [email protected]; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration Thanks very much Tino & Patrick. I am guessing the same goes for the SAS6/iR too. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > SAS 5/iR does not allow for RAID Level Migration or Capacity Expansion (Reconfiguration in OMSA parlance). > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Tino Schwarze > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 AM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration > > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Ben Tisdall wrote: > >> I wonder if someone could confirm to me that non-destructive ?raid >> level migration (1 => 0) is NOT possible with the SAS5/iR controller? > > Such conversion would be very risky, to say the least. (In RAID1, you > have a copy of each data block on both disks, in RAID0, you distribute > data blocks evenly: block0 -> disk0, block1 -> disk1, block2 -> disk0, > block3 -> disk1 etc.) Apart from that, the SAS 5/iR is a rather stupid > controller with no fancy logic etc, so I guess it's simply not supported. > >> >From the lack of that option in VD menu I assume that is the case, >> unless it's matter of a driver version: >> >> Firmware Version ? ? ?00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00 >> Driver Version ? ? ? ?3.04.03 >> Minimum Required Driver Version ? ? ? 3.12.29.00 >> >> This is OM 6.2 on Fedora 6 (cannot be upgraded to suit unfortunately). > > OMSA or OS version shouldn't matter at all. > > Tino. > > -- > "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." > > www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de > www.tisc.de > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:50:35 +0100 From: Ben Tisdall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks Patrick. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct. Reconfiguration is supported by the PERC series of controllers only (with the exception of the PERC H200). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Tisdall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:26 PM > To: Boyd, Patrick > Cc: [email protected]; linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration > > Thanks very much Tino & Patrick. > > I am guessing the same goes for the SAS6/iR too. > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, ?<[email protected]> wrote: >> SAS 5/iR does not allow for RAID Level Migration or Capacity Expansion (Reconfiguration in OMSA parlance). >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Tino Schwarze >> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:12 AM >> To: linux-poweredge-Lists >> Subject: Re: SAS 5/iR raid migration >> >> Hi Ben, >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Ben Tisdall wrote: >> >>> I wonder if someone could confirm to me that non-destructive ?raid >>> level migration (1 => 0) is NOT possible with the SAS5/iR controller? >> >> Such conversion would be very risky, to say the least. (In RAID1, you >> have a copy of each data block on both disks, in RAID0, you distribute >> data blocks evenly: block0 -> disk0, block1 -> disk1, block2 -> disk0, >> block3 -> disk1 etc.) Apart from that, the SAS 5/iR is a rather stupid >> controller with no fancy logic etc, so I guess it's simply not supported. >> >>> >From the lack of that option in VD menu I assume that is the case, >>> unless it's matter of a driver version: >>> >>> Firmware Version ? ? ?00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00 >>> Driver Version ? ? ? ?3.04.03 >>> Minimum Required Driver Version ? ? ? 3.12.29.00 >>> >>> This is OM 6.2 on Fedora 6 (cannot be upgraded to suit unfortunately). >> >> OMSA or OS version shouldn't matter at all. >> >> Tino. >> >> -- >> "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." >> >> www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de >> www.tisc.de >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:14:38 -0600 From: Marc Moreau <[email protected]> Subject: Serial over LAN To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello list, I'm looking to setup Serial over Lan on my cluster of PowerEdge 1950's. Does anyone have this setup? I'm kind of confused on how all the redirection works. From posts that I have read, we redirect console to a serial port, then tell the BMC to forward the serial console to the LAN. But my BIOS has a 'Direct Connect' mode. My IPMI doesn't have any of the Serial redirect. I fear that I am confusing IPMI and BMC somewhere too. Could some take a stab at explaining this please. One further question. If I do get this setup, does it give me 'full console access' over serial. In other words, do I get the BIOS POST, or does the serial console only come up after post? I am aware that I need to setup my OS (Centos) to spawn a serial tty, and this I have done before, just not over baseboard LAN. Pointers to docs accepted at par. :) -- Marc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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