Thursday, July 13

Solaris 10 06/06 on Dell PE 1855 blades

Just installed Solaris 10 06/06 on a Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade.
Everything worked out of the box. Drivers for the raidcard, ethernet etc. was all included.
I just mounted the ISO image in the virtual media interface in the remote management DRAC card and ran the manual installer as usual. Default BIOS settings, except that I disable hyperthreading to get better performance.
root@juliet:[etc]$ psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 07/13/2006 15:07:14
on-line since 07/13/2006 14:18:56.
The i386 processor operates at 3200 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 07/13/2006 15:07:14
on-line since 07/13/2006 14:19:02.
The i386 processor operates at 3200 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
root@juliet:[etc]$ isainfo -v
64-bit amd64 applications
mon sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu
32-bit i386 applications
mon sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu
root@juliet:[etc]$ prtdiag
System Configuration: Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge 1855
BIOS Configuration: Dell Computer Corporation A04 08/24/2005
BMC Configuration: IPMI 1.5 (KCS: Keyboard Controller Style)

==== Processor Sockets ====================================

Version Location Tag
-------------------------------- --------------------------
Intel Xeon PROC_1
Intel Xeon PROC_2

==== Memory Device Sockets ================================

Type Status Set Device Locator Bank Locator
------- ------ --- ------------------- --------------------
DDR2 in use 1 DIMM1_A
DDR2 in use 1 DIMM1_B
DDR2 empty 2 DIMM2_A
DDR2 empty 2 DIMM2_B
DDR2 empty 3 DIMM3_A
DDR2 empty 3 DIMM3_B

==== On-Board Devices =====================================
LSI Logic 53C1020 Ultra 320 SCSI
ATI RADEON 7000 PCI Video
Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet
Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet

==== Upgradeable Slots ====================================

ID Status Type Description
--- --------- ---------------- ----------------------------
1 available PCI-X DC_CONN

Look at the prtconf -pv
It was especially cool to have ZFS on a production ready box. The blade I installed Solaris on had a pair of mirrored 146Gb drives so I created a 40Gig system partition and a 100Gb partition for ZFS.
Now I just need to investigate how well WebLogic 8.1 plays in a zone.

As a really annoying side note I can mention that it took almost 2 days to get Windows 2000 server installed on another blade. Getting drivers and a retail copy of Windows 2000 with slipstreamed SP4 was quite difficult. We usually use MSDN media to install development server but the Dell Server Assitant (required to get Windows 2000 working at all) requires a retail OEM version of Windows 2000. Then again, I'm not a very Windowsy' person :)

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