Hi, For esxi5, I used hypervisor profile. And for esxi4, I used hypervisor and base both.
Thanks, yixuan On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Xiao Peng Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > For esxi5, which profile did you use? For esxi4, I could help you to > debug that why node could not update status to xcatd. > > > Thanks > Best Regards > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: [email protected] > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > [image: Inactive hide details for Yixuan Huang ---2013/06/11 > 18:54:29---Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But > no]Yixuan > Huang ---2013/06/11 18:54:29---Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for > pxe and xnba. But not for esxi4.1, it will fail to send > > From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]> > To: xcat-user <[email protected]>, > Date: 2013/06/11 18:54 > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server > ------------------------------ > > > > Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But not for > esxi4.1, it will fail to send result to xcatd. I comment reboot in auto > install script, to see what happen on esxi host. > Here is the /tmp/foo.log: > connect: network is unreachable > connect: errno=22 > > When i try to ping that node, cannot ping. > From esxcfg-vmnic -l result, there has no IP present for vmnic1 which is > connect to network. However, when installation start before, I can ssh into > that esxi host. > > When I tried to use netboot as pxe, when in pxe boot stage, it will be > prompt message like: xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32: not a COM32R > image. > > > In a word, for xnba, xcat cannot be retrieved signal from node, something > is wrong for network configuration; for pxe, will be failed at pxe boot. > > Any idea to help solve those issue? > > > Thanks, > yixuan > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Yixuan Huang > <*[email protected]*<[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hello, > When I change netboot to pxe, i can boot esxi5.1 successfully. But I > still have two questions: > 1) what reason when I used xnba, it will loop infinite to install? > 2) when installation has been successfully, if definition update in > lsdef, as below information from that environment, status still get at > installing. is it working as design? > > lsdef esxi5host: > Object name: esxi5host > > arch=x86_64 > bmc=*9.115.235.135* <9.115.235.135> > bmcpassword=PASSW0RD > bmcport=1 > bmcusername=USERID > cons=ipmi > currchain=boot > currstate=boot > groups=all > installnic=vmnic1 > ip=192.168.1.5 > kcmdline=-c > xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/boot.cfg.install ks=* > > http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host*<http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host> > kernel=xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/mboot.c32 > > mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03 > mgt=ipmi > netboot=pxe > nfsserver=192.168.1.2 > nodetype=osi > os=esxi5.1 > postbootscripts=otherpkgs > postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp > primarynic=vmnic1 > profile=hypervisor > provmethod=install > status=installing > statustime=06-11-2013 15:20:14 > xcatmaster=master > > > Thanks, > yixuan > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Yixuan Huang* <*[email protected]* <[email protected]>> > Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM > Subject: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server > To: *[email protected]* <[email protected]> > > > Hello, > When I tried to install esxi4.1 and 5.1 with xcat 2.8.1. I met > following issue. > It can be booted and successfully installed, and reboot, but pxe will > install esxi server again... > lsdef esxihost (which esxihost is my esxi node information): > Object name: esxihost > arch=x86_64 > bmc=*9.115.235.135* <9.115.235.135> > bmcpassword=PASSW0RD > bmcport=1 > bmcusername=USERID > cons=ipmi > currchain=boot > currstate=install esxi4.1-x86_64-base > groups=all > installnic=eth1 > ip=192.168.1.4 > kcmdline=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkboot.gz quiet repo=* > http://192.168.1.2:8* <http://192.168.1.2:8/> > 0/install/esxi4.1/x86_64 ks=* > > http://192.168.1.2:80/install/autoinst/esxihost*<http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxihost> > ksde > vice=vmnic1 --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkernel.gz --- > xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/bas > e/sys.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/cim.vgz --- > xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/ienv > iron.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/install.vgz --- > xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/m > od.tgz > kernel=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32 > mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03 > mgt=ipmi > netboot=xnba > nfsserver=192.168.1.2 > os=esxi4.1 > postbootscripts=otherpkgs > postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp > primarynic=eth1 > profile=base > provmethod=install > status=installing > statustime=06-09-2013 17:32:39 > xcatmaster=master > > Any idea to solve that issue? And how to debug if there has such > issue, when I enable SOL, it cannot work for esxi installation, no output > to SOL session. > > Another question is, when I used esxi5.1 to install, it still use > legacy CSM PXE, not the UEFI pxe. > > Thanks, > yixuan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > >
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