Hi
Two thousand of new Linux 1U CPU farms of Fujitsu PRIMERGY rx200s5
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/rack/primergy_rx200s5.html
have been installed in our computing center very recently.
Total CPU power is 40th in the Current Top500 list.
http://www.top500.org/list/2009/06/100
Officially RHEL4.7 and RHEL5.3 (and latter version) are supported
on this platform because of the internal RAID controller:
Integrated RAID 5/6 Ctrl, SAS/SATA 3 Gb, 8 ports int.
RAID level: 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, 256 MB Cache, optional BBU (based on
LSI 1078)
However, we want to install SL4.4(i386) on a part of these
nodes because of the software compatibility to the PHENIX
collaboration at BNL.
The BIOS message of the PRIMERGY rx200s5 shows
LSI MegaRAID SAS-MFI BIOS
Version 2.06.00 (Build February 13, 2009)
HA -0 (bus 2 Dev 0) RAID 5/6 SAS based on LSI MegaRAID
:
SLOT ID LUM VENDOR PRODUCT REVISIN CAPACITY
---- -- -- ------ ------- ------- --------
3 LSI RAID 5/6 SAS based on LSI1.40.32-0580 256MB
3 4 0 FUJITSU MBB2073RC 5204 70007MB
3 5 0 FUJITSU MBB2147RC 5204 140014MB
3 6 0 FUJITSU MBB2147RC 5204 140014MB
3 7 0 FUJITSU MBB2147RC 5204 140014MB
3 0 LSI Virtual Drive RAID0 69472MB
3 1 LSI Virtual Drive RAID0 418464MB
2 Virtual Driver(s) found on the host adapter.
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The installation of SL4.7(i386) is successful. In the dmesg,
the RAID0 devices are recognized as
SCSI subsystem initialized
megasas: 00.00.03.18-rh2 Wed June 4 14:11:20 PDT 2008
megasas: 0x1000:0x0060:0x1734:0x10f9: bus 2:slot 0:func 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
megasas: FW now in Ready state
megasas: max_sectors : 0x280, cmd_per_lun : 0x80
scsi0 : LSI Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver
Using cfq io scheduler
Vendor: LSI Model: MegaRAID SAS RMB Rev: 1.40
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 142278656 512-byte hdwr sectors (72847 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 142278656 512-byte hdwr sectors (72847 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 2, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: LSI Model: MegaRAID SAS RMB Rev: 1.40
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 857014272 512-byte hdwr sectors (438791 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 857014272 512-byte hdwr sectors (438791 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 2, id 1, lun 0
libata version 2.00 loaded.
:
I have not yet tested the installation of SL4.4 on this node.
I will try to install SL4.4 in the next week. But the vendor
told us that the installation of SL4.4(RHEL4.4) is not
successful because the SL4.4 does not support this
LSI MegaRAID SAS device driver.
Is there any method to install the SL4.4(i386) to this node?
If so please let us know. So far, the installations with VM
1) SL4.4(i386) on VMware ESXi
2) SL4.4(i386) on SL5.3(X86_64) XEN-kernel
are successful. But we want to install the SL4.4(i386)
on this node without VM software.
Thank you for any suggestion.
Takashi Ichihara
(RIKEN)
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