David B. | 1 Feb 09:37
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Kernel 3.2 & OMSA

Hi dell users,

Did someone have found a way to user a 3.2 kernel with OMSA 6.5 ?
I've got a "no controller found" with a PERC 6/i (megadraid_sas).

Best regards
David.
Alain Péan | 1 Feb 09:49
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Re: Kernel 3.2 & OMSA

Hi David,

Le 01/02/2012 09:37, David B. a écrit :
> Hi dell users,
>
> Did someone have found a way to user a 3.2 kernel with OMSA 6.5 ?
> I've got a "no controller found" with a PERC 6/i (megadraid_sas).
>

Which OS do you use ? which machine (PE ... ? ) ?

Alain

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David B. | 1 Feb 10:02
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Re: Kernel 3.2 & OMSA

Hi Alain,

Le 01/02/2012 09:49, Alain Péan a écrit :
> Which OS do you use ? which machine (PE ... ? ) ?
>
> Alain
Debian Squeeze one PE 1950 III & PE R300.

It seems I'm not alone on this :
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-January/045866.html

For now, 2.6.32 from squeeze is too buggy. :(
2.6.39 from backports was fine but it seems to have a vulnerability issue.

Latest backport from debian is 3.2.

Best regards
David.
Michael Decker | 1 Feb 10:05
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Re: Kernel 3.2 & OMSA

Hi,

I can confirm this for Debian stable with PE R510 and H700 controller.
The 2.6.39 kernel seems to work OK except for the security issue
mentioned before...

Michael

On 01.02.2012 10:02, David B. wrote:
> Hi Alain,
> 
> Le 01/02/2012 09:49, Alain Péan a écrit :
>> Which OS do you use ? which machine (PE ... ? ) ?
>>
>> Alain
> Debian Squeeze one PE 1950 III & PE R300.
> 
> It seems I'm not alone on this :
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-January/045866.html
> 
> For now, 2.6.32 from squeeze is too buggy. :(
> 2.6.39 from backports was fine but it seems to have a vulnerability issue.
> 
> Latest backport from debian is 3.2.
> 
> Best regards
> David.
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Nick Lunt | 1 Feb 11:07

Power consumption

Hi

I have a bunch of R900s, 2950s, MDs, 5448 switches etc installed on a remote client site.
The client is asking for the power consumption of the kit.

Does anyone have a handy way of getting this info, or do I need to trawl the docs?
Is there a Dell page with power consumption charts for there kit?

Nick Lunt,
Patech Solutions Limited

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Pavel Mateja | 1 Feb 11:17
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Re: Power consumption

> Hi
> 
> I have a bunch of R900s, 2950s, MDs, 5448 switches etc installed on a
> remote client site.
> The client is asking for the power consumption of the kit.
> 
> Does anyone have a handy way of getting this info, or do I need to trawl
> the docs?
> Is there a Dell page with power consumption charts for there kit?

I think OMSA should be able to read PSU load on R900s and 2950s.
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Luca Lesinigo | 1 Feb 11:17
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Il giorno 01/feb/2012, alle ore 11:07, Nick Lunt ha scritto:
> I have a bunch of R900s, 2950s, MDs, 5448 switches etc installed on a remote client site.
> The client is asking for the power consumption of the kit.
> 
> Does anyone have a handy way of getting this info, or do I need to trawl the docs?
> Is there a Dell page with power consumption charts for there kit?
For networking gear (switches and so on) I'd trust whatever the doc says.
I wouldn't trust the docs for servers and storage stuff: the actual power consumption will depend on the
hardware configuration and system load.
Some Dell systems will report the actual power consumption via IPMI: the R310/T310 series with dual
redundant PSU does that, while the same systems in single PSU configuration won't.
This is a T310 with Xeon X3440 and 4 nearline 3.5" disks on hardware raid card, the system is idle most of the time:
luca <at> t310:~$ sudo ipmitool sdr | egrep '(Current|Voltage|Watts)'
Current 1        | 0.40 Amps         | ok
Current 2        | no reading        | ns
Voltage 1        | 226 Volts         | ok
Voltage 2        | no reading        | ns
System Level     | 70 Watts          | ok
[one PSU is not connected to power as you can see]

Of course the 'good' answer would be to actually meter your rack (with a metering PDU or similar).

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Nick Lunt | 1 Feb 11:23

Re: Power consumption




On 1 February 2012 10:17, Luca Lesinigo <luca <at> lm-net.it> wrote:
Il giorno 01/feb/2012, alle ore 11:07, Nick Lunt ha scritto:
> I have a bunch of R900s, 2950s, MDs, 5448 switches etc installed on a remote client site.
> The client is asking for the power consumption of the kit.
>
> Does anyone have a handy way of getting this info, or do I need to trawl the docs?
> Is there a Dell page with power consumption charts for there kit?
For networking gear (switches and so on) I'd trust whatever the doc says.
I wouldn't trust the docs for servers and storage stuff: the actual power consumption will depend on the hardware configuration and system load.
Some Dell systems will report the actual power consumption via IPMI: the R310/T310 series with dual redundant PSU does that, while the same systems in single PSU configuration won't.
This is a T310 with Xeon X3440 and 4 nearline 3.5" disks on hardware raid card, the system is idle most of the time:
luca <at> t310:~$ sudo ipmitool sdr | egrep '(Current|Voltage|Watts)'
Current 1        | 0.40 Amps         | ok
Current 2        | no reading        | ns
Voltage 1        | 226 Volts         | ok
Voltage 2        | no reading        | ns
System Level     | 70 Watts          | ok
[one PSU is not connected to power as you can see]

Of course the 'good' answer would be to actually meter your rack (with a metering PDU or similar).

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Many thanks for the quick responses all.

I'll check OMSA, IPMI and the docs as required.

Thanks again
Nick .
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jason andrade | 1 Feb 11:32

Broadcom drivers and firmware updates (10GE)


Hi,

This is a broadcom specific question but comes back to an
earlier one on managing firmware updates on Poweredge with
Linux.

I've been chasing a (i think) network related issue for a
few days and it's increasingly starting to look like a
broadcom driver and/or firmware issue.

PE R715 with RHEL6.1 and 10GE acting as NFS server seems
to be working fine and no dropped packets, errors or
framing errors.

PER715 running Ubuntu 11.10 acting as NFS client and
virtualization host sees a LOT of dropped packets, errors
and heaps of framing errors.

If you turn on jumbo frames it seems to make the problem
worse which i think is related to more traffic passing
through io wise.

I have very rarely seen _any_ errors on ethernet devices
that usually didn't involve some serious problem.

In this instance it isn't the switch and the errors show
up on every Ubuntu box so it isn't all the cards or cables
either.

So now i'm looking at how i can upgrade the firmware and
this gets back to the earlier issue - the broadcom linux
update fails even on a 'supported' platform (RHEL6) with
the outlined library issues.

There wasn't a straightforward way i could find to update 
it any other way either - im aware of the lifecycle controller
on the server but haven't figured out creating a repository
or other things yet so.. i will be working on that.

Would appreciate any tips or advice on how one does this in
a linux world and/or if you have seen this specific issue
with Broadcom stuff before.

regards,

-jason
Alain Péan | 1 Feb 11:35
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Re: Kernel 3.2 & OMSA

Le 01/02/2012 10:02, David B. a écrit :
> Hi Alain,
>
> Le 01/02/2012 09:49, Alain Péan a écrit :
>> Which OS do you use ? which machine (PE ... ? ) ?
>>
>> Alain
> Debian Squeeze one PE 1950 III&  PE R300.
>
> It seems I'm not alone on this :
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-January/045866.html
>
> For now, 2.6.32 from squeeze is too buggy. :(
> 2.6.39 from backports was fine but it seems to have a vulnerability issue.
>
> Latest backport from debian is 3.2.
>

As said in previous threads, it works with PE R510 and Debian Squeeze 64 
bit :
# omreport storage controller
  Controller  PERC H700 Integrated (Slot 4)

And I wonder if it could related to the kernel version, as it was said 
previously.

But, to be exact, as stated also previously, my debian is a Proxmox-ve 
with a patched RHEL 6 kernel...

Alain

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