The Dell chasis has also a centralised management controller called CMC but
you don't have to use it. You can boot blades as normal using xcat and use
ipmi for management functions. Each blade has an iDRAC that you can use to
control power etc.
On 1 September 2015 at 19:51, Waldron, Michael H <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Ok, thanks. I asked because with the IBM BladeCenter hardware, xCAT
> controls the nodes via the chassis management module. A user 'xcat' is
> created on the management module which xCAT uses via ssh to the management
> module as defined in the mpa table. The mp table has the relationship of
> nodes to management module and which chassis slots they're in.
>
> I wasn't sure if this worked the same way with other vendor blade chassis.
>
> Mike
>
>
> * Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and Dell M1000e
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/message/34424328/>*
> From: Russell Auld <russauld@co...> - 2015-09-01 18:26:47
>
> The chassis has no role in the provisioning. The rpower commands will be
> working directly with the blades. Same thing for the provisioning.
> The blade chassis really does nothing but contain the parts.
> The only useful thing is to get an inventory of the blades and their mac
> address via "racadm" commands.
>
>
> Mike Waldron
> Systems Specialist
> ITS - Research Computing Center
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Waldron, Michael H
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 01, 2015 2:21 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: xCAT and Dell M1000e
>
> Node discovery is not necessary, it's a small enough setup where I can
> manually add nodes. By "work with", I mean can it perform the basic
> functions of node provisioning and manipulation, i.e. rpower, nodeset
> install, boot, etc.
>
> I currently have an xCAT setup with IBM hardware, and wanted to add some
> Dell.
>
> Mike
>
>
> * Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and Dell M1000e
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/message/34424243/>*
> From: Russell Auld <russauld@co...> - 2015-09-01 18:03:09
>
> Define "work with".
> Do you want to do node discovery?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Waldron, Michael H
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 01, 2015 1:08 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* xCAT and Dell M1000e
>
> Does anyone know if xCAT will work with Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade
> chassis? I see references to various Dell servers but none relating to
> blades.
>
> Mike Waldron
>
>
>
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