Hi folks, I'm scratching my head over SmartOS on a DL360g6 which I've been trying to piece together for deployment in a remote datacenter (DR and DNS service), so it's smaller / less capable than the machines that I usually run.
Some time ago I tried running SmartOS on these machines with an HP P410i RAID controller. The disk performance at the time was generally unsatisfactory, but there's a new driver for that controller family effective late last year ( https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-5564 ) so I figured I'd give it a try. I'm running 20170608T172228Z on all the other machines around here so I figured I'd give it a go on this one as well. Booted fine from the USB, zpool was a ZFS mirror of two drives on the HP controller configured as singles. Everything seemed to come up OK, disk performace was adequate but nothing to write home about... but creating a VM timed out waiting for the VM to become ready... vmadm list showed the VM in provisioning status... and it eventually went to "running". Odd. Well, maybe 6g was not enough ram for it to be truly happy. I upped the memory to 24g. No dice same deal. OK, must be the disk subsystem right? Picked up some HP H220s (SAS2308 aka 9207s) and reflashed to IT mode. System boots but throws an odd error in the middle of booting: "warning: KCS error: ff" - Google tells me little except that maybe bmc is weird about the card. Disabled the built-in SmartArray just in case. Disk array faster for copy across the network (getting 110-112 MByte/sec on gigabit ethernet vs. 75-80 before). zpool scrub operates as expected - "37.6G scanned out of 102G at 134M/s, 0h8m to go". And still, vmadm create runs out the clock: [root@00-23-7d-e8-af-38 /zones/rs]# time vmadm create -f test29.json first of 1 error: timed out waiting for zone to transition to running real 0m57.031s user 0m2.322s sys 0m1.847s [root@00-23-7d-e8-af-38 /zones/rs]# Maybe it's the hard drives? HP 146g 10k SAS drives shouldn't be slow right? Tried upgrading to 600g 10k WD Velociraptor SATA drives. Same deal. And still the KCS error. I'm kind of puzzled at this point. I've run SmartOS on things far less capable than a single die (4 core) L5520, so reasonably sure it's not CPU. Anyone have ideas? Thoughts on tracing? Sysinfo output is below. -r [root@00-23-7d-e8-af-38 ~]# sysinfo { "Live Image": "20170608T172228Z", "System Type": "SunOS", "Boot Time": "1503016030", "SDC Version": "7.0", "Manufacturer": "HP", "Product": "ProLiant DL360 G6", "Serial Number": "MXQ91704UG", "SKU Number": "504636-001", "HW Version": "", "HW Family": "ProLiant", "Setup": "false", "VM Capable": true, "CPU Type": "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz", "CPU Virtualization": "vmx", "CPU Physical Cores": 2, "UUID": "35303436-3336-4d58-5139-313730345547", "Hostname": "00-23-7d-e8-af-38", "CPU Total Cores": 8, "MiB of Memory": "24565", "Zpool": "zones", "Zpool Disks": "c0t50014EE657986649d0,c0t50014EE6ACEDBAE8d0", "Zpool Profile": "mirror", "Zpool Creation": 1503015684, "Zpool Size in GiB": 538, "Disks": { "c0t50014EE657986649d0": {"Size in GB": 600}, "c0t50014EE6ACEDBAE8d0": {"Size in GB": 600} }, "Boot Parameters": { "console": "vga", "vga_mode": "115200,8,n,1,-", "root_shadow": "xxxxxx", "smartos": "true", "boot_args": "", "bootargs": "" }, "Network Interfaces": { "bnx0": {"MAC Address": "00:23:7d:e8:af:38", "ip4addr": "172.30.251.93", "Link Status": "up", "NIC Names": ["admin"]}, "bnx1": {"MAC Address": "00:23:7d:e8:af:3a", "ip4addr": "", "Link Status": "down", "NIC Names": []} }, "Virtual Network Interfaces": { }, "Link Aggregations": { } } [root@00-23-7d-e8-af-38 ~]# ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
