1. We noticed, it will be fixed in 2.7.1, that was pretty glaring and we should've caught that...
2. I'll try to look into it in our end... From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 04/19/2012 05:46 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] IBM M4 nodes Hi Jarrod, Thanks for your comments, You know, we don't *need* Legacy only in xCAT 2.7 anymore for RHEL6, SLES11, Win2k8, and ESXi5. Older versions of each would need Legacy only though. That was my suggestion there in the first comment, and in-fact you don't need it, and I only realised it later in the day when I couldn't get nodes discovered in the legacy modes, and was able to via the uEFI method. I was very impressed. (I solved my problem in the end though ("spanning-tree edge" on switches)) Other than that, looks reasonable enough. The performance and efficiency impact of the settings vary by workload of course, so the 'your mileage may vary' is very true. I only mimicked the config that was already in the templates, so that is what I put up. The exception would be HS23 servers. There you'd also want to put Legacy serial data out COM2 instead of COM1. For all the rackmount/iDataplex and Flex servers, COM1 default is good. Cool, no problem; I was going to commit this, and symbolic link to the MT of the new dx360 M4, not sure if it would be useful to add it into the templates On another 2 other notes, 1. I did find an issue with genesis with compression with lzma. when doing mknb x86_64, it was creating the image correctly, but the corresponding files in /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets, still had the .gz extension of the genesis.fs, rather than lzma. I will be debugging this further tomorrow, and see if I can generate a patch to fix this. 2. When there is no mac address allocated in the mac table for a node, and you ask to do an operation such as nodeset which includes other nodes as well, it will not allow you to install the other nodes, and fail due the specific node not having a mac address. i.e. if I have node001-node050, and for some reason was not able to discover node037, but I wanted to install all the nodes. When doing so in the fashion "nodeset node001-node050", this will end up failing. I don't remember being the case previously. I will get more info on this if required Inactive hide details for Arif Ali ---04/19/2012 02:54:36 PM---All, For anyone installing M4 nodes, below is the corresponding Arif Ali ---04/19/2012 02:54:36 PM---All, For anyone installing M4 nodes, below is the corresponding ASU From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> To: "Mailing list, xCAT" <[email protected]>, Date: 04/19/2012 02:54 PM Subject: [xcat-user] IBM M4 nodes All, For anyone installing M4 nodes, below is the corresponding ASU settings that I have used that are similar to the hpc/sol settings in /opt/xcat/share/templates. It could be that we no longer require the BootOrder definition, as the uEFI PXE boot should now work. This has worked for me, any ideas from anyone that would go a bit further in terms of configuration. loaddefault uEFI loaddefault BootOrder set BootOrder.BootOrder "Legacy Only=PXE Network=Hard Disk 0" set Processors.Hyper-Threading Disable set DevicesandIOPorts.RemoteConsole Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.SerialPortSharing Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.SerialPortAccessMode Dedicated set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1TerminalEmulation VT100 set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1ActiveAfterBoot Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1FlowControl Hardware set OperatingModes.ChooseOperatingMode "Custom Mode" set Processors.C1EnhancedMode "Disable" set Processors.TurboMode "Enable" set Processors.PackageACPIC-StateLimit "ACPI C3" set Processors.QPILinkFrequency "Max Performance" regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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