Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, Installation Manual

Page 1: ...Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux MK 99COM141 01 Document Organization Product Version Getting Help Contents ...

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Page 3: ...tual drive for CB 2500 500 1 3 Preparing virtual drive for CB 2000 1 5 Backing up necessary files 1 6 Setting up disk 1 6 Setting up EFI for CB 2500 500 1 6 Setting up EFI for CB 2000 1 6 Other preparations 1 6 Other preparations for Logical partitioning enabled 1 7 2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 1 Supported Kernel 2 2 OS Installation 2 2 Precautions for OS installation on LPAR manager 2 2 Before ...

Page 4: ...Setting up after installation on LPAR 2 19 3 Utilities 3 1 Installing Utilities 3 2 iv Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 5: ...ystems products is governed by the terms of your agreement s with Hitachi Data Systems This preface includes the following information Intended Audience Product Version Release Notes Document Organization Referenced Documents Document Conventions Convention for storage capacity values Getting Help Comments Preface v Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 6: ...cribed in this document or updates or corrections to this document Document Organization The table below provides an overview of the contents and organization of this document Click the chapter title in the left column to go to that chapter The first page of each chapter provides links to the sections in that chapter Chapter Description Chapter 1 Installation Overview Describes installation overvi...

Page 7: ...de MK 99CB2500004 Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series UEFI Setup Guide MK 99CB2500005 Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series Logical partitioning manager User Guide MK 99CB2500006 Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 Series manuals Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User s Guide ESD 99BDS2K001 Document Conventions This term Compute Blade refers to all the models of the Compute Blade unless otherwise noted The Hitachi Virt...

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Page 10: ...x Preface Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 11: ...Overview This chapter describes installation overview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview Before installation Installation Overview 1 1 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 12: ...B3 can boot only on EFI Note In the case of CB 520H A1 B1 B2 CB 520A A1 and CB 540A A1 B1 For how to install RHEL6 5 or earlier see Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux In the case of CB 2000 For how to install RHEL6 5 or earlier see Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 SOFTWARE GUIDE To know which specific 6 x versions are supported for servers that are purcha...

Page 13: ... installation media for the OS Preparing virtual drive for CB 2500 500 Inserting the installation DVD Insert the Installation DVD into the CD DVD drive of the system console Activating the remote console Activate the console in the following steps Installation Overview 1 3 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 14: ...er the corresponding URL for your environment The URL is configured in the following form http IP address port number or https IP address port number The default port number http 80 https 443 3 Log in the Web console of the management module 4 The following table describes the factory default account settings for the system administrator Table 1 3 Factory default account settings for the system ad...

Page 15: ...ote console screen click Tools Then click Launch Virtual Media 2 Confirm that the following virtual media screen opens 3 Click the box in the Mapped column for the CD DVD to use for installation Tip While using the virtual drive do not close the screen by clicking the Exit by clicking the x button Closing the virtual media console selection screen closes the virtual media session This ends up in t...

Page 16: ...s the EFI initial setting See Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series EFI User s Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series UEFI Setup Guide that you need Setting up EFI for CB 2000 On the EFI starting screen press the F2 key or Delete key to enter the EFI Setup menu Click Save Exit tab find Boot Override to select the CD DVD drive and press the Enter key Do not select a device that starts from UEFI Othe...

Page 17: ... above is an example of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 Jump to OS Installation on page 2 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Other preparations for Logical partitioning enabled The following is the operation flow when Logical partitioning is enabled Set boot order on Web cosole You can set boot order using Web cosole when all of the following firmware version are met Model Management module LPAR manage...

Page 18: ...ter CB 520H B3 The version 02 05 or later Set boot order on guest screen When other than above and CB2000 set boot order using guest screen The following is operation flow Setting up LPAR manager Select a LPAR manager firmware initialize LPAR manager activate LPAR manager and then save the LPAR creation and configuration data For details see Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Server Blade Setup Guid...

Page 19: ...e Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Server Blade Setup Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series Logical partitioning manager User Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User s Guide Activating LPARs Activate the LPAR For details see Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Server Blade Setup Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series Logical partitioning manager User Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 User...

Page 20: ...omplete depending on the number of LPARs assigned to the shared fibre channel To solve this problem you can set a longer time for the LOGIN DELAY TIME which is the parameter that controls the operation of the FC SW module although it may not work in some cases For details see Hitachi Gigabit Fibre Channel Adapter User s Guide BIOS EFI 1 10 Installation Overview Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Inst...

Page 21: ...er describes installation procedure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supported Kernel OS Installation Setting up after installation Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 1 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 22: ... Enterprise Linux 6 with the Driver Utility CD Tip The installation procedure described in this guide is an example See the following Red Hat website for more details https access redhat com documentation en US Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux Driver Utility CD for RHEL 6 version 0650 xx contains drivers and utilities for RHEL 6 5 It can be used for RHEL 6 5 setup Precautions for OS installation on LPAR m...

Page 23: ... For EFI boot the following message appears before installation Press any key before the countdown ends If not installation may fail Press any key to enter the menu Tip Do not install tboot package Click Base System Base to show the Packages in Base dialog box and make sure that tboot package is unchecked Installation steps Screenshots for Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 2 are used in the following ste...

Page 24: ...mode 2 For CB2500 500 When the boot option appears add dd blacklist isci to the end Legacy boot mode 2 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 25: ... EFI boot mode For CB2000 Press the Tab key to display options and type dd Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 5 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 26: ...an incorrect command the installation may fail 3 The message Do you have a driver disk is displayed and then click Yes 4 The following window is displayed 2 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 27: ...tep 4 8 The following window is displayed 9 Uncheck Mapped in the virtual media console dialog box and then remove the Driver and Utility CD from the DVD drive 10 Insert the Installation DVD in the DVD drive Check Mapped in the virtual media console dialog box 11 Click No on the window in step 8 Follow the wizard to continue the installation Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 7 Hitachi Compute Blade Ser...

Page 28: ...est city in your time zone is displayed select a time zone uncheck System clock uses UTC and click Next Note For CB 2000 do not configure network settings for a device using the e1000e driver which requires to be disabled after the installation Intel Corporation 82567LF 2 The device with the last one of the three consecutive MAC addresses Note For CB 2000 the device on this system does not support...

Page 29: ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 5 6 6 there are cases where Call Trace is taken However this will not affect system operation Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 9 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 30: ...t install tboot package tboot x xx x el6 x86_64 rpm tboot x xx x el6 i686 rpm Click Base System Base to show the Packages in Base dialog box and make sure that tboot package is unchecked When installing tboot package tboot x xx x el6 x86_64 rpm tboot x xx x el6 i686 rpm by mistake change the setting for boot grub grub conf referring to 4 Customizing boot grub grub conf Setup procedure on page 2 15...

Page 31: ...on setting menu appears Delete intel_iommu on and amd_iommu on from the boot option and press Enter 5 Enter B key when the following window appears Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 11 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 32: ... of USB Configuration and click Confirm 4 In Confirm dialog box click OK 5 Wait for EFI settings CB 2000 server blade Time Required for X Logout With X logout it may take about 5 to 10 minutes to complete the logout which has no effect on the system behavior MTU Setting for ixgbe driver on 32 bit x86 kernel When using ixgbe driver on 32 bit x86 kernel use the default value 1500 for MTU maximum tra...

Page 33: ...ibre Channel adapter GV CC2N161X1 Y Hitachi 16 Gb 2 port Fibre Channel adapter GV CC2N162X1 Y Emulex 16 Gb 2 port Fibre Channel adapter GV CC2N163X1 Y If without an I O slot expansion unit connected you can avoid this problem by the following OS setting Add blacklist igb to the last line of etc kdump conf file LPAR manager environment Be aware of the following restrictions for LPAR manager environ...

Page 34: ...0 old write back new write combining Message at OS boot The following message may be displayed at OS boot but operation is not affected Message microcode CPUX update to revision 0xXX failed Message for physical processor shortage When the total number of logical processors which are assigned to LPARs are more than that of physical processors on the server blade the following message may be display...

Page 35: ... 520H B3 server blade change the setting for boot grub grub conf referring to Restrictions on page 2 9 Follow steps shown below to set up the OS after installation 1 Disabling TCP Checksum Offload function TCP Checksum Offload is a function that checks TCP packets in the LAN controller If TCP Checksum Offload is enabled packet data may be destroyed when the LAN controller fails Targeted drivers tg...

Page 36: ...orkManager service service NetworkManager stop b Perform the following command to set NetworkManager service to off chkconfig NetworkManager off c Perform the following command to check that NetworkManager service is off chkconfig grep NetworkManager The following message is shown NetworkManager 0 off 1 off 2 off 3 off 4 off 5 off 6 off 3 Customizing etc sysctl conf Validate the magic SysRq key to...

Page 37: ...ing kernel option Adding the kernel option above configures the following settings Disabling nmi_watchdog to use a parameter that stops the system when hardware fails A setting of kernel panic for avoiding the OS malfunction when MCA interrupts occur A setting for avoiding Aero from working If selecting tboot package in RHEL installation delete the following option to disable the TXT function 5 Ap...

Page 38: ...st line This setting blocks loading drivers to prevent unnecessary devices from being detected 8 Reflecting the new settings Reboot the OS to reflect the settings configured from step 1 through step 7 9 Adding Updating Hitachi drivers Installing RHEL 6 using the Driver Utility CD will add or update some drivers If with the following condition install the driver to load tools required for operation...

Page 39: ...are already made setting repetition is not required If the setting values are different from those shown in the following table the guest OS may not work properly Table 2 3 Setting items and values after OS installation Item file Value required etc inittab Change it to id 3 initdefault Offload option settings See Table 2 6 Offload option settings on page 2 23 etc sysctl conf Add the following kern...

Page 40: ... two lines between hiddenmenu line and the title line CB 2000 serial unit 0 speed 115200 CB 2500 500 serial unit 1 speed 115200 terminal timeout 10 serial console Add the following at the end of the kernel line CB 2000 console ttyS0 115200 CB 2500 500 console ttyS1 115200 etc sysconfig init Change BOOTUP as follows Before BOOTUP color After BOOTUP serial Table 2 5 NIC device name and type of LAN d...

Page 41: ...of offload option settings see Table 2 6 Offload option settings on page 2 23 Customizing sbin ifup pre local file Setting the following in the file sets the use of offload option for guest OS boot If you enable the TCP Checksum Offload function in the LAN controller it can cause a LAN controller failure which eventually damage packets Be sure to configure offload settings according to the procedu...

Page 42: ...Gbps Ethernet or Broadcom 1 Gbps Ethernet as dedicated NIC c Using Intel 10 Gbps Ethernet as dedicated NIC 2 22 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 43: ... off on off off Emulex 10 Gbps Ethernet on on on on off on on off VF NIC1 Emulex 10 Gbps Ethernet on on on on off on on off Notes 1 A NIC when the SR IOV functionality is enabled 2 The default value is on but off might be automatically set depending on the environment However even if this value remains off no problems exist with operations Note Do not use NetworkManager service When NetworkManager...

Page 44: ...erioration of applications or in Linux hang up Add the following line b Enabling the Magic SysRq key Edit or add the following Set this command to gather information when problem occurs c Setting the NMI interrupt Edit or add the following For early detection of device or driver failure this command brings the Kernel into a panic state in the event of NMI 5 Customizing boot grub grub conf For EFI ...

Page 45: ...i_watchdog 0 mce 0 pci noaer no_timer_check console ttyS0 115200 For CB2500 500 add the ending of the Kernel line as follow nmi_watchdog 0 mce 0 pci noaer no_timer_check console ttyS1 115200 For CB 2000 add vga 792 as well if LPAR manager version is 59 41 79 41 or later For CB 2500 500 add vga 792 as well if LPAR manager version is 01 60 or later The following shows an example of grub conf setting...

Page 46: ...line starting with module vmlinuz Delete intel_iommu on amd_iommu on Change the first module to kernel in the line starting with module initramfs The following text contains settings above Note Do not use hashdist 1 mem mem 1024G command in the Kernel parameter because using the option can cause the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 boot fail 2 26 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hitachi Compute Blade Series...

Page 47: ...the NMI interrupt setting After starting the system type in the following and press Enter 11 Updating the Hitachi driver Installation using the Driver Utility CD adds and updates some drivers The following case however requires installing additional drivers To connect Hitachi disk array subsystem using the hfcldd driver reinstall the driver in the Driver Utility CD attached to the HITACHI Gigabit ...

Page 48: ...curs while shutting down after getting a memory dump by kdump If a kernel panic occurs select Hard Reset from the remote console menu to reboot the server blade You can get memory dump even if a kernel panic occurs For details of Hard Reset see Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Remote Console User s Guide or Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 Series Getting Started Guide 2 28 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hit...

Page 49: ...ties This section describes installation procedures of utilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installing Utilities Utilities 3 1 Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 50: ... detail of installation see the manual of each utility in the Flash Memory in the server chassis Note Install packages library required for each utility before installing the utility by referring to the each manual 3 2 Utilities Hitachi Compute Blade Series OS Installation Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

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