DELL poweredge 6450 server

I could never get Solaris to install, the OpenManger Server Assistant does not support Solaris I have two rad arrays. Any one got an answer?

Have you also checked the sys$log.err located in sys:\system of the
server?
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> I have two Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers with Netware 6.5 SP8 (eDir 8.8
> sp4). Randomly they with hang with a blank black screen. There is no
> option except to hard reboot. Nothing ever shows in abend.log. Tried
> running with only certian apps running, but can't pin it down to one
> app.
> Anyone have any suggestions to at least find out what is carusing the
> hang up?
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with bellow spec.
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I solved this problem.
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root (hd0,0,a)
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But I don't know why this problem is.It seems you're forcing to use the 32-bit kernel.
Is that a machine with a 64-bit x86 processor, buta
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installed?Juergen.Keil, you are right!
I force boot 32-bit kernel because my server could't
boot correctly.
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Processor(Intel Xeon CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz CPU).
And LSI Logic1068 driver, the package name is
ITMPT-5.07.01, has two drivers.
I found the installed driver files:
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(1) Is Solaris 10 support 64-bit kernel for my
processor?
(2) How to boot 64-bit kernel or install?
Thank you again.I have 2 questions.
(1) Is Solaris 10 support 64-bit kernel for my
processor?
There is a problem with this processor (Woodcrest ) when you boot 64-bit. There is a ptach already released by Sun, but is only avaibale for those who request. Please try calling Sun.
(2) How to boot 64-bit kernel or install?
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This machine hangs in configuring devices Solaris 10 GA.
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OK guys,
I've got it rocking. thanks to the new itmpt driver released by LSIlogic a couple of days ago for download on their site.
these are the exact steps, how to install Solaris 10 x86 (03/05 release) on a Dell 1850 Dual Xeon 3Ghz, with 2x73GB SCSI disks, using an LSI 1030 controller.
1. go into the bios in the Dell, and disable the Raid mode, this is done in the Integrated Peripherals, just set the raid card to SCSI enabled. Also, make sure the boot device has the diskette above the hard drive or CD.
2. download yourself the 119376-01 SD.ITU from sun.
3. make yourself a DCA diskette (you can get the file called d1_image from the DVD, which you can mount on another pc)
4. mount that DCA diskette on some linux box, or wincrap box, it is a DOS formatted diskette, and edit the file [solaris/bootenv.rc] file and add a line at the bottom with the following:
setprop acpi-user-options 0x4
5. boot the machine with the DCA diskette, and the DVD in the drive (make sure the diskette is booting), and then F4 to add a driver, and add the SD.ITU diskette. Then continue as always (F2....)
6. When asked what boot option, choose Interactive installation text in CONSOLE MODE (option 4) (believe me, you will need this due to a bug in the graphical install)
7. continue with the full install, you will notice that even though the e1000g0 is "skipped" on the test, it actually recognizes that you are networked, weird.
8. at the end of the full install it will ask you to add the SD_11... diskette again, so do that, and press enter. If at this point it complains that it cannot find the sd driver in the diskette, then press enter again, and it will find it (this may or may not occur randomly).
9. the box will reboot, and the bootup will take a long while doing some SMF stuff (i.e. how to hide inetd so that noone can telnet in any longer hahhaa). During this process, go to the lsilogic.com site, and download yourself the following file: itmpt-x86-5.06.00.zip
10. unzip that file, and you will notice that it contains itmpt-x86-50600-itu.dd and also itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z
the itmpt-x86-50600-itu.dd is an ITU, but it only contains a solaris 9 version of the thing, so it wont be useful at boot time. Ergo, we will use the package file itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z
11. Now that you are networked, copy that itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z file into your dell, and uncompress untar it. Then change into the install folder it creates, and just type pkgadd -d . Go ahead and install the thing.
12. not it is important that you make sure you do exactly as the installpkg tells you. You need to vi /etc/driver_aliases and comment out the mpt "pci1000,30" and mpt "pci1000,50" lines (i.e. add a # as the first char of the line).
and UNCOMMENT the ones you will see at the bottom, called itmpt "pci1000,30" and itmpt "pci1000,50"
in my case the itmpt "pci1000,54" is already uncommented, leave as is.
13. touch /reconfigure
14. reboot
15. PTG.
The key end effect that was desired:
- I now get 50-100 megabytes / sec sending data from disk to disk, which is paaaarfect !.
- Hyperthreading is recognized properly, I can now see 4 cpus,
- The 8GB of swap I have is recognized.
In response to Solaris being junk, and moving to Linux or BSD, well, this is not an OS-War thread, but I can guarantee the following premises are true:
a. the easier to install an OS, the more latent incompatibilities are added to a running system, which invariably manifest themselves at 4 AM, or when you least expect them.
b. wincrap is not and OS, it's just a bad, sad joke on humanity.
c. BSD will invariably freeze your whole operation as soon as you have 10 heavy applications accessing the disks heavily for more than a minute.
d. Linux will invariably need a reboot once in a while, specially when you run more than 5 different heavy apps with lots of ram manipulation, and disk action. (note, if using heavy NFS, then the reboot will be needed once a week or less)
e. Solaris (sparc or X86) is the only one that allows me to sleep and smile (once it's installed of course), and will not freeze no matter what you throw at it, I have a dual cpu x86 at constant load 3 or 4, doing webserver, database, php runner, and batch image processing, with an uptime of 1200 days.
cheers to all, wish you luck.

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Since the install I have been trying to track down and fix some very strange behaviour with both servers, in particular with MS Exchange 2007 and IIS.
The issues on server 1 (file server) are no access to Windows Updates (0x80072EE2), certain users on other VPN sites having problems accessing certain areas of our Intranet that require authentication, odd problems using IE on the server - for example
I can go to Google, carry out a search but when I click on a result it just sits there waiting for Google. There are no issues with users on the same site, and there are no issues accessing the server shares from any site.
The issues on server 2 (Exchange server) are even more odd and have me rapidly pulling out my hair. With the site we can send and receive between this server and an old Exchange 2003 server with no problems, Public Folder replication from the old server
to the new is occurring with no problems and we can send messages with large attachments both to external users and users on other sites. However when we start looking at incoming connections this is where it gets odd. Incoming external messages over 4Mb are
delayed and eventually bounced - our provider says that they are getting timeouts. Incoming messages with attachments from two other internal Exchange 2007 sites are getting delayed and from one sites are not getting through at all. Messages without attachments
are not getting through at all. In the Exchange logs I am seeing Connection Timeout and Connection Dropped messages.
I am very sure that the problem is not with message size as all parameter relating to message size are set to 100Mb. I know it is not a firewall issue as redirecting incoming external messages to the old Exchange server is fine.
To my mind this looks like there is something on these servers which is messing with http/https/smtp when communicating outside the local subnet. I have checked for viruses and mal-ware and for testing purposes disabled AV and firewall but this makes no
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I have two other PowerEdge server on another site with similar configurations which have been working fine for 18 months. The only big difference I can see between the servers is that these two are the only one where I used the Dell Systems Management disk
to install the OS. I have Googled 80072EE2 and it does appear that other have seen the same problem and their way to resolve it was to wipe and reinstall directly from the Microsoft disk and no use the Dell Systems Management Disk.
However, this is not an option here as these servers are both in a live environment (I know, should have made sure everything was running properly before going live, but these had to be put in place rapidly to replace failing servers).
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components form the servers and then reinstate from the Microsoft disk?
I have tried the fixed relating to Windows Update from the suggestion offered searching for 80072EE2.
I have tried installing the latest Dell drivers for the network adaptor, and also the latest Broadcom ones.
I have tried switching off various Offload settings on the NIC as suggested by other although that was more relating to Hyper-V issues.
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Many thanks, Eddie

Hi Eddie,
Based on your description, we have many different problems in two servers as below,
In the file server.
-> The issues on server 1 (file server) are no access to Windows Updates (0x80072EE2).
-> odd problems using IE on the server - for example I can go to Google, carry out a search but when I click on a result it just sits there waiting for Google.
I noticed that you mentioned that you have tried the fixed relating to Windows Update. Have we solved this issue? And another issue, IE could access Google but can’t access
the links in search result. It seems that this issues are related to name resolution. To verify if the name resolution works fine. Please ping the DNS server at first. If we can ping DNS server, we can also ping
www.google.com and other domain names to verify the function of name resolution. Please try to use ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns command in server 1. And the DNS port(53) was opened. After this, if the problem
still exist, please involve the administrator of DNS server to help verify if the domain name resolution has some problems.
-> certain users on other VPN sites having problems accessing certain areas of our Intranet that require authentication
I’m a little unclear about this part. If the VPN connection has set up successful, it is possible that the user need be authenticate when the user access some resource of the
Intranet. So what is the certain areas and what prompt we received.
In the Exchange server.
->Incoming external messages over 4Mb are delayed and eventually bounced - our provider says that they are getting timeouts. Incoming messages with
attachments from two other internal Exchange 2007 sites are getting delayed and from one sites are not getting through at all. Messages without attachments are not getting through at all. In the Exchange logs I am seeing Connection Timeout and Connection Dropped
messages.
-> I am very sure that the problem is not with message size as all parameter relating to message size are set to 100Mb.
We can send messages but we can’t receive messages, it was delayed or it can’t get through. And I notice that you mentioned that the message size is
not the problem. To verify if the network have problems about the size messages. We can also download a file whose size is over 5Mb from the Internet. If we can download the file, maybe it’s not the network problems.
-> I know it is not a firewall issue as redirecting incoming external messages to the old Exchange server is fine.
Maybe we could also turn off the firewall temporarily to see if the firewall block some connection.
-> To my mind this looks like there is something on these servers which is messing with http/https/smtp when communicating outside the local subnet.
If we think the http/https/smtp are related to this issues, maybe we could check if all ports about this service was opened.
And due to server 2 is an Exchange server, there might be some wrong with the Exchange services. We have the related Exchange forum with professional
to deal with this issue. If there are still some problems with Exchange server, maybe we can try to create a new thread about Exchange.
Best Regards,
Tina

Re: Need Help! Dell poweredge T630 cannot reboot after trying to add new memory

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hi, can any one please advise what should I do for my server? Dell poweredge T630 cannot reboot after trying to add new memory card. Even I remove the newly added memory card and only keep the original one there, it still cannot reboot. Before I try to add the memory card, it works well without any rebooting issues.
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Need Help! Dell poweredge T630 cannot reboot after trying to add new memory card

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hi, can any one please advise what should I do for my server? Dell poweredge T630 cannot reboot after trying to add new memory card. Even I remove the newly added memory card and only keep the original one there, it still cannot reboot. Before I try to add the memory card, it works well without any rebooting issues.
Thank you so much for help
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Solaris 8 & Dell PowerEdge 6300

This message goes to Sun Microsystem.
I work for a Small School District which is 98% Windows NT.
For more than a year I've been looking for ways to introduce a UNIX/LINUX Solution into our network.
Finally, the best opportunity arrives: We need to set up a Spam Filter for our Mail system.
The target machine is a Dell PowerEdge 6300 Dual 550mhz CPU, gig of RAM, SCSI Raid.
The School was even good enough to send me to a Solaris Admin class just to help out with the integration.
Everything is good except Device Configuration won't recognize the AMI MegaRaid Ultra SCSI contoller.
Hence the install won't find the Hard Disks.
Dell Support was good, but the couldn't help, as their testing for Solaris is a bit on the slow side.
They said SUN would have to have the final say.
So after looking through the SUN website; at all the HCLs I come to the conclusion, (note this Spam filter project must go forward soon) That:
1. It will install if there is a Driver, (Dell didn't have it, AMI didn't, I don't, perhaps SUN does?)
2. It will install if I get a different Raid Controller( unlikely as the only reason for considering UNIX in the first place is cost, and I've already got a Microsoft solution lined up for less than a good conrtoller)
3. It's not going to work, because the hardware on this Server is just not supported.
And I call SUN. Now given that SUN and all the UNIX / Linux crowd are always griping about how they are better, and how they need a piece of the Microsoft pie, and thet fact that many many times I've gotten Microsoft to help out without charge, I would've thought that SUN might be at least remotely helpful given the chance they had someone willing to start pushing them in the door, or at least they might care about Education.
But No. No way, no how. Not even maybe or anything.
Thanks a lot guys for nothing.
You assholes don't deserve a market share, and until you start either making your shit work, or at least being more helpful to those who would push your products you'll never get anywhere.
Fuck SUN Microsystems You're a bunch of good for nothing Dickwits...
KSchwantz

How is it the fault of Sun Microsystems that AMI will not provide a Solaris x86 driver for their RAID controller? Do you think Sun would not jump for joy if hardware manufacturers would provide drivers for an operating system other than Windoze whatever?
Sun is stuck in a chicken/egg situation in this case. The hardware manufacturer will not provide a driver for such a low volume product as Solaris x86, and people cannot use Solaris x86 on much current hardware due to the lack of drivers. I imagine AMI has limited resources availble for driver developement, and wants to spend its development dollars on the platform that will generate the most revenue.
Of course Sun could pay AMI to produce such a driver, or for the specifications so they could write their own, but then the price of Solaris x86 would have to be increased to offset the increased production cost. This would seem to just push people to use linux or one of the BSD variants. Any ideas on how to resolve this conundrum?
Now that I'm done ranting, maybe this info will actually help you. AFAICT, megaraid is the name of a product line, not for a specific card. If you could provide more detailed info about the specific AMI HBA that you have, someone might be able to provide more detailed info to you. Some locations that appear to have some form of AMI megaraid drivers:
http://www.driverscollection.com/?H=MegaRAID%20Drivers&By=AMI&SS=Solaris%20x86
http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/
http://support.megaraid.com/support/download.cfm
HTH

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