topic Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server in Operating System - Linux

Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

razi_1 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:49:27 GMT

hello,

i have few question regarding this server:

1. i know the ILO term but what am i supposed to connect to the ilo port? the cable should be connected to what device?

2. there is 2 ethernet port eth0 and eth1. is this a redundancy option for network card failure/when first connection down (like the 2 power supply attached to this server) or its something else?

3. i installed RHEL 4.5 . i know i need to install smart array driver, i got hte driver and when half way installing it said lilo.conf not found. im using grub so how do i solved this?

4. do i need to install the SCSI ultra320 adapter or it not necessary? as my hdd works fine after installing RHEL.

thanks

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:28:24 GMT

Shalom,

1. RJ45 port, cat 5 network cable to a switch. ilo lets you gain remote console control of the system without physically being there.

2. Network bonding. Two NIC's 1 IP address double the reliability.

3. RHEL 4.5 detects the smart card. Look at the on console boot options. You'll see a function key option that lets you go into smart array configuration and set up hardware raid.

4. No need to do anything else.

SEP

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:54:51 GMT

Hi,

Just to add to SEP's comments.

1. The iLO port should be connected to the network. By default when the machine boots it will try to pick up a DHCP IP address. On later servers it displays this IP address on screen during POST. You can then get to the management pages by pointing a web browser to that IP address.

3. The driver for the SmartArray controller (cciss) is built in to the RedHat kernel. You shouldn't need to install a driver, unless you have an early Update version where the cciss driver hadn't been updated to recognise the 6i controller.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

razi_1 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:30:34 GMT

hello,

thank you very much. Now i fully understood my server.

actually im using CentOS 4.5 . its a complete rebuild to RHEL 4.5 right.

1.
so would your answers for smart array and scsi hdd driver be the same with this OS ?

2.
I have 1 HDD inside slot 0. i dont use raid so now i need more space and i have inserted another HDD into slot 1. the smart array configuration notice the disk but how can i make the OS recognize it? i mean the command to mount and format.

thanks

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:33:37 GMT

Hi,

1. CentOS 4.5 is equivalent to the latest update for RedHat 4 so yes it should work without any additional drivers.

2. Assuming you've setup the new disk within the Array Configuration Utility, creating a new JBOD, then you should get a new disk device for the OS called something like /dev/cciss/c0d1..

Have a look at the output of the command dmesg and you should see what has been assigned. Once you have that, you will have to make a partition on the disk with:

# fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d1.. (the device you found earlier)

and then create a file system on it with mkfs or similar.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

razi_1 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:13:19 GMT

hello,

thanks for prompt reply.

when i inserted the scsi HDD i notice the smart array configuration has assigned the second disk to another raid 0 without me doing anything.

that hdd is unformatted yet i guess. so after boot to OS, i cant see the drive being mapped by running command df-h. i only see 1 hdd.

what i want is to have JBOD where this 2 disk combined as one.any step i missed?

please help.

thanks

Re: Smart Array 6i controller for dl 380 G4 server

razi_1 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:17:21 GMT

hello,

as addition here is what i get when running df -h via putty . seems like it only detect 1 disk

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
65G 22G 40G 36% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 97M 20M 72M 22% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/usr/tmpDSK 485M 33M 427M 8% /tmp
/tmp 485M 33M 427M 8% /var/tmp