running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com
Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com
Thu May 22 15:40:20 CDT 2008
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. Have you created the second
virtual disk yet?
To create you need to use 'omconfig storage controller action=createvd
controller=X pdisk=Y:Y:Y,Z:Z:Z raid=rX size=max'
-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:cathy.smith at pnl.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:47 PM
To: Boyd, Patrick
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
I have a PERC 5i and OM 5.3.0 and would like to do the same thing.
However, omreport doesn't see a second virtual disk (the one I want to
configure) when I run:
omreport storage vdisk
What do I need to do to get the second disk recognized?
Thanks.
Cathy
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Today's Topics:
1. One method for upgrading the megaraid driver on Debian
(Guillaume Devil)
2. running Perc5/e config utility without reboot? (Philippe SENOT)
3. RE: running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
(Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com)
4. Re: ANNOUNCE: OMSA 5.4 for deb based systems (Olaf Zaplinski)
5. RE: ignored by Dell? (Fred Skrotzki)
6. Re: ignored by Dell? (Sabuj Pattanayek)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:58:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Guillaume Devil <devil1591 at yahoo.fr>
Subject: One method for upgrading the megaraid driver on Debian
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
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hi there ! thank you very much for making it work ! Could you be more
precise on the way you made this ? A sort of tutorial maybe ? You will
help lots of people, see theses posts
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5008033
Thanks in advance
See you
> -----Original Message-----
> Greetings. New subscriber here. Apologies for any badly formatted
> emails. I'm stuck with using outlook.
> I just upgraded the megaraid_sas driver last week on our 2950 running
> Etch, with the only change from a stock install being a kernel change
> to
> 2.6.22-4-amd64 from http://backports.org/.
> What I ended up doing was pulling the RH3 archive for the 8480E card
> (not that it seems to really matter as the tarball inside the archive
> looks to have the patches for all the supported versions of Linux in
> it) from LSI's site, uncompressing that file and then uncompressing
> the megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.13.tgz file.
>
> I added these lines to the Makefile (per
http://www.captain.at/programming/kernel-2.6):
> KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
> PWD := $(shell pwd)
> default:
> $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
> Ran make and received a clean compile for megaraid_sas.ko. Backed up
> the old megaraid_sas module, added the new module, rebuilt the initrd
> image, rebooted cleanly.
> Not a single problem so far (of course, we are not seriously stressing
> the server /yet/), and OMSA no longer complains about the driver being
> too old.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:39:43 +0200
From: Philippe SENOT <senot at univ-metz.fr>
Subject: running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
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Hi,
I'm using Rocks on my cluster.
I'm planning to connect and use my MD1000 storage (10x 300 Go) and mount
it as /home2.
Some calculations are running on the server and nodes.
Without reboot, I would like to access the Perc5/e controler
configuration to define raid level and create disks space before to
create partition and file system.
Is it possible?
Which commands or utils?
Thanks.
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Philippe SENOT
Gestionnaire du parc informatique de l'*I*nstitut *C*himie, *P*hysique
et *M*at?riaux et Responsable informatique du laboratoire LPMC (EA DRED
3941) Institut de Chimie, Physique et Mat?riaux
1 Bd Arago, 57078 METZ Cedex 3, FRANCE
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:56:43 -0500
From: <Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com>
Subject: RE: running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
To: <senot at univ-metz.fr>, <linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>,
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OMSA will allow you to configure your PERC without the need to reboot.
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Philippe SENOT
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:40 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists; npaci-rocks-discussion at sdsc.edu
Subject: running Perc5/e config utility without reboot?
Hi,
I'm using Rocks on my cluster.
I'm planning to connect and use my MD1000 storage (10x 300 Go) and mount
it as /home2.
Some calculations are running on the server and nodes.
Without reboot, I would like to access the Perc5/e controler
configuration to define raid level and create disks space before to
create partition and file system.
Is it possible?
Which commands or utils?
Thanks.
--
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Philippe SENOT
Gestionnaire du parc informatique de l'Institut Chimie, Physique et
Mat?riaux et Responsable informatique du laboratoire LPMC (EA DRED 3941)
Institut de Chimie, Physique et Mat?riaux
1 Bd Arago, 57078 METZ Cedex 3, FRANCE
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:13:11 +0200
From: Olaf Zaplinski <olaf.zaplinski at qsc.de>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: OMSA 5.4 for deb based systems
To: "linux-poweredge at dell.com" <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
Message-ID: <48343C07.7010204 at qsc.de>
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Hi,
Bas van der Vlies schrieb:
> SARA is proud to announce that they have recreated the Dell Open Mange
> Server Administrator package (version 5.4) for deb based systems.
I found a problem on my Debian 4.0 box: I cannot login to
https://server:1311. In the logs I found:
May 21 17:03:17 infomail dsm_om_connsvc32d: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_nologin.so)
May 21 17:03:17 infomail dsm_om_connsvc32d: PAM [dlerror:
/lib/security/pam_nologin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory]
May 21 17:03:17 infomail dsm_om_connsvc32d: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_nologin.so
Olaf
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:38:42 -0400
From: "Fred Skrotzki" <fskrotzki at textwise.com>
Subject: RE: ignored by Dell?
To: <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
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I Guess it all depends on the sales rep. Ours knows I will bargin shop
down to parts if needed. When I call I know what I want. When I want it
I send a quick e-mail with the web based quote and any changes to him, I
normmaly get quotes back within the hour normally and a follow up call
to be sure it has everything I need. If there is a special deal running
for something I've asked for a price on in the last 4 months I'll get a
e-mail saying there is currently a deal running if I'm still interested.
Premier used to have better pricing then the Rep could offer but now not
always, so I do generate equotes, shoot off a e-mailwith the quote to
the rep saying if you can beat the pricing do it and here is the PO,
shipping, etc. And if he can he does the quote, and places the order
for me, I get copied in for everything.
I almost never deal with the Tech Rep who configures the systems as we
tweak them hard for our purposes. The only time I talk with the Tech
rep is when I need info or another option that is not normally offered
and he has learned in the end it saves us both time this way. I have
noticed that when I use him the pricing is sometime a bit higher ut that
sort of makes since, since we used his skills for things.
As for Drive sleds our sales rep has gone through the process of chasing
down the part numbers and ordering just the sleads for us. We did this
on our last 2950. Had to order it with a single 80 gig so that they
would build and ship it, but he made arrangements for 5 additional sleds
to be shipped and when they arrived we replaced all of the drives with
750 gig drives before Dell started providing them.
Granted we've spend almost a half Million in the last 24 months (90% of
it 16-24 months ago). And when we did we bargined real hard. But our
rep has been great, even the rep before him was very good.
In the last company I worked for we had one like you describe. So I
insisted that I get a new one, they didn't want to do it but when
threatened with me going someplace else they finally gave in (Sent specs
for systems to Dell, HP with both knowing about the other).
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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Sabuj Pattanayek
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:32 PM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: ignored by Dell?
Hi,
> For the last 2 months my Dell salesperson has been stalling or
> ignoring my e-mail and phone (always on voicemail) requests for
> quotes. I twice posted a complaint through Dell's web site customer
> service feedback system. I was once able to speak to the salesperson's
> supervisor who assured me my requests would be processed.
>
> Might that attitude be related to the fact we like to bargain about
> server prices, especially disk drives? If we can a better price for
Yes I've had similar experiences. One time I blatantly called the
previous sales rep for our university an idiot to his supervisor when he
failed to recognize mistakes in pricing due to javascript coding errors
on their website, even after showing him the evidence. The sales rep was
probably reassigned or fired, now I feel bad for doing it, but our
current sales rep is much more responsive, gets quotes to us asap.
> spares elsewhere, we usually order the smallest drives just to get the
> trays/caddies and connectivity. We also try to get the lowest price on
> our laptops and generally enter an order only after a couple rounds of
> bargaining. Also we complain when the salesperson 'forgets' that we
> wish to receive no spam/promotions from him.
One thing that has really annoyed me is Dell's aggressive price
discrimination. For example the prices on their university/institution
website are not the best prices one can get. If you have a specific
university rep you can save 10-20% on purchases by going through them,
just give them the equote you generate online and they'll send you their
dramatically reduced price. I hadn't been doing this for several months
since it was just faster to generate the equote and purchase the item at
the online price at a loss of several hundred dollars.
When I mentioned this fact to our sales rep (even for a very recent
order, i.e. less than 30 days) they said nothing could be done and
basically told me that something like "well, I'm giving you a cheaper
price now, so what's the big deal?". The big deal is that we could have
saved thousands of dollars over more than a year's worth of purchases. I
knew I could return the system since it was well within the return
policy and re-purchase it but decided not to since it was already racked
and setup, etc.
> Our latest order was delivered to a wrong address (ours intead of
> direct to final customer), so I asked our salesperson for a very
> special price on our next order considering the trouble his error
> entailed. This is the last I heard from him.
> Does Dell have a practice of ignoring/stalling demanding,
> hard-bargaining or low-yiedling customers?
Yea, they'll do that.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:34:24 -0500
From: "Sabuj Pattanayek" <sabujp at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ignored by Dell?
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Chris Chipman <cchipman at homeaway.com>
wrote:
> We generally have gotten great service from Dell. Like any large
company
> individual experiences may differ...however -- if you want to
experience a
> true service suckfest - try dealing directly with Apple Computer. OMG.
> Dell **kills** them in B2B service, count your blessings.
HAH, don't even get me started with Apple. I don't know how anyone can
stand to do business with them, especially in the enterprise. We
actually refunded a service agreement due to their incompetence.
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