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| 2 | In the Dell PowerEdge SC1435 servers delivered July 2008, |
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| 3 | there are several BIOS settings that need to be frobbed on setup. |
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| 5 | in the setup screen at F2: |
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| 6 | - CPU -> Virtualization Technology: on |
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| 7 | - Boot Sequence: disable NIC |
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| 8 | - Integrated Devices -> Embedded Gb NIC: turn off PXE |
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[1566] | 9 | - Serial Communication: |
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| 10 | - Serial Communication: On with Console Redirection via COM2 |
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| 11 | - External Serial Connector: COM1 |
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| 12 | - Failsafe Baud Rate: 57600 |
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| 13 | - Remote Terminal Type: VT100/VT220 |
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| 14 | - Redirection After Boot: Disabled |
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| 16 | in the setup screen for remote management, at Ctrl-E: |
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[1537] | 17 | - Turn on IPMI over LAN |
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[803] | 18 | - IP is (main IP) =~ s/18.181.0/10.5.128/ |
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| 19 | e.g. 10.5.128.221 for citadel-station == 18.181.0.221 |
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[925] | 20 | - netmask is 255.255.0.0 |
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[928] | 21 | - Set the password to the XVM root |
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[3024] | 23 | All of these settings are reflected on all 8 servers in the production |
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[928] | 24 | cluster. |
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[926] | 25 | |
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| 26 | In the debian installer: |
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| 27 | - 500M for /boot in raid1 of sda1, sdb1 |
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| 28 | - rest for LVM in raid1 of sda2, sdb2 |
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| 29 | - 50G / |
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| 30 | - 25G swap |
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| 31 | - install a vanilla kernel, not xen; |
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| 32 | will install xen hypervisor from backports in our later custom install. |
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[3024] | 34 | |
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| 35 | Currently allocated backend IPs: |
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| 37 | 10.5.128.16 c-s |
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| 38 | 10.5.128.17 a-s |
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| 39 | 10.5.128.18 s-m |
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| 40 | 10.5.128.19 a-m |
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| 41 | 10.5.128.20 d-o |
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| 42 | 10.5.128.21 g-d |
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| 43 | 10.5.128.22 b-f |
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| 44 | 10.5.128.23 m-a (not installed) |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | 10.5.128.128 RAID group portal |
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| 47 | 10.5.128.129 RAID device/management |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | 10.5.128.221 c-s IPMI |
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| 50 | 10.5.128.222 a-s IPMI |
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| 51 | 10.5.128.223 s-m IPMI |
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| 52 | 10.5.128.224 a-m IPMI |
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| 53 | 10.5.128.225 d-o IPMI |
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| 54 | 10.5.128.226 g-d IPMI (currently unplugged) |
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| 55 | 10.5.128.227 b-f IPMI |
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| 56 | 10.5.128.228 m-a IPMI (not configured) |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | 10.6.128.16 c-s |
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| 59 | 10.6.128.17 a-s |
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| 60 | 10.6.128.18 s-m |
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| 61 | 10.6.128.19 a-m |
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| 62 | 10.6.128.20 d-o |
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| 63 | 10.6.128.21 g-d |
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| 64 | 10.6.128.22 b-f |
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| 65 | 10.6.128.23 m-a (not installed) |
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| 67 | 10.6.128.129 RAID device/management |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | 10.6.128.229 g-d IPMI (temporary hardware) |
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