Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 08.01.2013 20:43, Krunal Desai wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! That method that was linked seemed very specific to Dell servers; from my experience with reflashing various LSI cards, can't I just USB boot to a FreeDOS environment in any system, and then run sasflash/sas2flsh with the appropriate IT-mode firmware? It is indeed very specific to Dell cards and I've actually tried to use the generic instructions for the M1015 and it failed because it the card didn't match the firmware version. The normal method with an M1015 is wipe raid firmware with the megarec (Megaraid recovery tool), reboot and flash on IT firmware. The Dell method is more involved but it's the only why that I've managed to got a Dell H200 cross flashed. Seems like the M1015 has spiked in price again on eBay (US) whilst the H200 is still under $100. -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! I've had trouble with one of those (Dell PERC H200) in a Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard. When it was inserted in any slot, the machine wouldn't power on. I put it in a Dell desktop I borrowed for a day and it worked there. Any idea as to what might be the trouble? Couldn't even get it working long enough to attempt to reflash its BIOS. The machine would power on for a few seconds and immediately turn off. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
Hi, Thank you very much for hints, I will try. Best Regards, a. -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:16 PM To: Tim Fletcher Cc: Andrzej Sochon; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310? On 01/07/2013 09:32 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 07/01/13 14:01, Andrzej Sochon wrote: Hello *Sašo*! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.htm l How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like. I got Dell Perc H310 controller for do-it-yourself experiments, I tried to run it on non-Dell PC platforms like Asus P5Q and Foxconn G31MX. Without success. I will appreciate very much any hint how to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. I've successfully crossflashed Dell H200 cards with this method http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?467-DELL-H200-Flash-to-I T-firmware-Procedure-for-DELL-servers PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! That method that was linked seemed very specific to Dell servers; from my experience with reflashing various LSI cards, can't I just USB boot to a FreeDOS environment in any system, and then run sasflash/sas2flsh with the appropriate IT-mode firmware? Seems like the M1015 has spiked in price again on eBay (US) whilst the H200 is still under $100. --khd ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:36:18AM -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 01/07/2013 04:16 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! I've had trouble with one of those (Dell PERC H200) in a Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard. When it was inserted in any slot, the machine wouldn't power on. I put it in a Dell desktop I borrowed for a day and it worked there. Any idea as to what might be the trouble? Couldn't even get it working long enough to attempt to reflash its BIOS. The machine would power on for a few seconds and immediately turn off. wild guess: Not enough available PCI option rom memory for the H200 card on that motherboard? -- Pasi ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
Hello Sašo! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.html How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like. I got Dell Perc H310 controller for do-it-yourself experiments, I tried to run it on non-Dell PC platforms like Asus P5Q and Foxconn G31MX. Without success. I will appreciate very much any hint how to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. Best Regards, Andrzej Sochon ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 07/01/13 14:01, Andrzej Sochon wrote: Hello *Sašo*! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.html “How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like.” I got Dell Perc H310 controller for do-it-yourself experiments, I tried to run it on non-Dell PC platforms like Asus P5Q and Foxconn G31MX. Without success. I will appreciate very much any hint how to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. I've successfully crossflashed Dell H200 cards with this method http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?467-DELL-H200-Flash-to-IT-firmware-Procedure-for-DELL-servers -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 01/07/2013 09:32 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 07/01/13 14:01, Andrzej Sochon wrote: Hello *Sašo*! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.html “How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like.” I got Dell Perc H310 controller for do-it-yourself experiments, I tried to run it on non-Dell PC platforms like Asus P5Q and Foxconn G31MX. Without success. I will appreciate very much any hint how to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. I've successfully crossflashed Dell H200 cards with this method http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?467-DELL-H200-Flash-to-IT-firmware-Procedure-for-DELL-servers PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 07/01/13 21:16, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 01/07/2013 09:32 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 07/01/13 14:01, Andrzej Sochon wrote: Hello *Sašo*! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.html “How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like.” I got Dell Perc H310 controller for do-it-yourself experiments, I tried to run it on non-Dell PC platforms like Asus P5Q and Foxconn G31MX. Without success. I will appreciate very much any hint how to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. I've successfully crossflashed Dell H200 cards with this method http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?467-DELL-H200-Flash-to-IT-firmware-Procedure-for-DELL-servers PERC H200 are well behaved cards that are easy to reflash and work well (even in JBOD mode) on Illumos - they are essentially a LSI SAS 9211. If you can get them, they're one heck of a reliable beast, and cheap too! The modular version of the card is often cheaper and takes 2 minutes with a torx driver to take off the black plastic L. I've bought one of these before and it worked well: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170888398081 -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/29/12 08:42 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On May 28, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: .. If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. I haven't looked at the code recently, but if it is the same parser as used elsewhere, then a partial match should work. Can someone try it out and report back to the list? sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST, power-condition:false; Well I finally got back to testing this box... Yes, that shorthand fixes the power-up issue (tested from a cold start). -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/ 7/12 04:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/ 7/12 03:42 PM, Greg Mason wrote: I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an Illumian guest. The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal. Thank you for the feedback Greg. Using a hypervisor layer is our fall-back position. My next attempt would be SmartOs if I can't get the cards swapped (the R720 currently has a Broadcom 5720 NIC). To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/12 10:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. Tricky when the machine is on a different continent! Joking aside, *I* know what the drive is, the OS as far as I can tell doesn't. -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/2012 12:59 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 10:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. Tricky when the machine is on a different continent! Joking aside, *I* know what the drive is, the OS as far as I can tell doesn't. Can you have a look at your /var/adm/messages or dmesg to check whether the OS is complaining about failed to power up on the relevant drives? If yes, then the above fix should work for you, all you need to do is determine the exact manufacturer and model to enter into sd.conf and reload the driver via update_drv -vf sd. Cheers -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/12 11:01 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 12:59 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 10:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. Tricky when the machine is on a different continent! Joking aside, *I* know what the drive is, the OS as far as I can tell doesn't. Can you have a look at your /var/adm/messages or dmesg to check whether the OS is complaining about failed to power up on the relevant drives? If yes, then the above fix should work for you, all you need to do is determine the exact manufacturer and model to enter into sd.conf and reload the driver via update_drv -vf sd. Yes I do see that warning for the non-raid drives. The problem is I'm booting from a remote ISO image, so I can't alter /kernel/drv/sd.conf. I'll play more tomorrow, typing on a remote console inside an RDP session running in a VNC session on a virtual machine is interesting :) -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/28/2012 01:12 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 11:01 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 12:59 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 10:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. Tricky when the machine is on a different continent! Joking aside, *I* know what the drive is, the OS as far as I can tell doesn't. Can you have a look at your /var/adm/messages or dmesg to check whether the OS is complaining about failed to power up on the relevant drives? If yes, then the above fix should work for you, all you need to do is determine the exact manufacturer and model to enter into sd.conf and reload the driver via update_drv -vf sd. Yes I do see that warning for the non-raid drives. The problem is I'm booting from a remote ISO image, so I can't alter /kernel/drv/sd.conf. I'll play more tomorrow, typing on a remote console inside an RDP session running in a VNC session on a virtual machine is interesting :) I'm not sure about the Solaris 11 installer, but OpenIndiana's installer runs from a ramdisk, so theoretically that should be doable. Other than that you could do it by copying the contents of /kernel from the ISO into a ramdrive and mounting that in place of /kernel and then issue the reload command. In any case, you seem to be having exactly the same issue as I did, so all you need to do is the above magic. -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On May 28, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to Solaris. I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work around the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: /kernel/drv/sd.conf sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST3300657SS, power-condition:false, SEAGATE ST2000NM0001, power-condition:false; (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, depending on your drive model the strings might differ) How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. I haven't looked at the code recently, but if it is the same parser as used elsewhere, then a partial match should work. Can someone try it out and report back to the list? sd-config-list = SEAGATE ST, power-condition:false; -- richard -- ZFS Performance and Training richard.ell...@richardelling.com +1-760-896-4422 ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/07/2012 05:42 AM, Greg Mason wrote: I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an Illumian guest. The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal. How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's spec sheets that the card runs an LSISAS2008 chip, so chances are that standard LSI firmware will work on it. I can send you all the required bits to do the reflash, if you like. Cheers, -- Saso ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
Greg Mason gmason at msu.edu writes: I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an Illumian guest. The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal. -Greg Hi Greg, could you please reply: what driver you have for this card on illumian ? could you please send me your 'modinfo' 'scanpci -v' I have one chassis Dell R720 with PERC H310, but card not detected by drivers: mr_sas, mega_sas, mpt_sas .. best regards, -Igor ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an Illumian guest. The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal. -Greg Sent from my iPhone ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?
On 05/ 7/12 03:42 PM, Greg Mason wrote: I am currently trying to get two of these things running Illumian. I don't have any particular performance requirements, so I'm thinking of using some sort of supported hypervisor, (either RHEL and KVM or VMware ESXi) to get around the driver support issues, and passing the disks through to an Illumian guest. The H310 does indeed support pass-through (the non-raid mode), but one thing to keep in mind is that I was only able to configure a single boot disk. I configured the rear two drives into a hardware raid 1 and set the virtual disk as the boot disk so that I can still boot the system if an OS disk fails. Once Illumos is better supported on the R720 and the PERC H310, I plan to get rid of the hypervisor silliness and run Illumos on bare metal. Thank you for the feedback Greg. Using a hypervisor layer is our fall-back position. My next attempt would be SmartOs if I can't get the cards swapped (the R720 currently has a Broadcom 5720 NIC). -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
