On 8/17/17 18:31 , Rob Seastrom wrote: > > 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.
That's an error we've seen on some BMCs. In general, I wouldn't worry about it. > 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]# In this case, there are a few different things I'd check before we even worry about the disks. First, there's the zone_bh log in /var/log. That'll have some information about all the transitions that the brand went through. I'd first use that to see if the zone transitioned to running or not. Let's figure that out, as that'll tell us where to look next. Robert ------------------------------------------- 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
