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тАО11-17-2010 01:54 PM
тАО11-17-2010 01:54 PM
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тАО11-17-2010 05:04 PM
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Re: Linux Boot Options.
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тАО11-18-2010 01:00 AM
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тАО11-18-2010 06:31 AM
тАО11-18-2010 06:31 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
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тАО11-18-2010 06:49 AM
тАО11-18-2010 06:49 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
What does it matter how long it takes to boot? Once a server is up, the norm is not to reboot it often.
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тАО11-18-2010 11:38 PM
тАО11-18-2010 11:38 PM
SolutionThings you might want to do:
- If you have SAN switches, do you have zoning configured? If you haven't, each host might attempt to probe all the LUNs in the entire SAN... no wonder your boot is slow in that case!
- If you want to completely disable the SAN functionality, the easiest way would be to disable the HBA driver modules. Edit /etc/modprobe.conf: comment out the "alias scsi_hostadapter*
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тАО11-19-2010 12:03 AM
тАО11-19-2010 12:03 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
I have used another way to tackle similar situation by disabling the fc device in bios.
This can be done only if the lun are just raw, and if any volume manager uses it/filesystem exists, the OS will throw error.
I faced similar issue when I perform automated unattended OS "re-installation" of linux when disks and luns co-exist, the automated installation given me problems when it was not able to identify which device to use (disk or lun). I disabled the PCI device in bios and gone ahead with the installation and after the installation I enabled the PCI device to make use of the luns.
Mine was an HP BL 460 G6 server with qlogic card where it can be disabled in bios.
Try if it is applicable for you too.
Thanks & Regards
Jayakrishnan G Naik
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тАО11-19-2010 06:27 AM
тАО11-19-2010 06:27 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
The modified modprobe.conf, will it look like this?
alias eth0 bnx2
alias eth1 bnx2
alias eth2 e1000e
alias eth3 e1000e
alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid_sas
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
#alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
blacklist qla2xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter3 usb-storage
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
###BEGINPP
include /etc/modprobe.conf.pp
###ENDPP
Also after running depmod -a, what would be the exact mkinitrd command to load the new module with the edited modprobe.conf file? This would really help..
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Mike.
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тАО11-22-2010 07:15 AM
тАО11-22-2010 07:15 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
My systems have over 1000 HP StorageWorks LUNs (yes EVA/XPs), ASMLib used by Oracle and they still boot in under 15 minutes.
We used to have the same issues as you likely are encountering and it was a wild journey for us finally fixing the issue. It used to take over an hour to never for our mega-SAN environments to boot.
The fixes we've employed are as follows -- (Matti I think we should have a Linux Mega-SAN HOWTO and Fixes in the Linux threads to HELP out others):
1.) LVM SCAN Filter needs to be fixed (modify your /etc/lvm/lvm.conf's filter line so LVM only scans the disks that it should scan)
2.) ASM or ASMLib disktring or scan directives. Work with your DBA and come up with standards how Oracle should use your SAN LUNs -- use friendly multipath names to make it easy for ASM/ASMLib/Oracle to have a distinct disk string. ALso decide if you would want to partition your LUNs or use them whole...
Fix the above 2 and your boot times will be acceptably "acceptable"
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тАО11-22-2010 08:15 AM
тАО11-22-2010 08:15 AM
Re: Linux Boot Options.
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Mike