{"id":36,"date":"2009-09-17T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T22:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:27:19","slug":"x3650-m2-installation-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"x3650 M2 Installation notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing on site with a customer’s x3650 M2, getting it ready to install GPFS.\u00a0 There are a few notes on this machine:<\/p>\n

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First impression is that this thing boots like a p-Series machine.\u00a0 In other words, it takes forever to boot!\u00a0 First if you plug it in you have to wait about 3 minutes for it to become active.\u00a0 Then once you power it on, you need to wait a long time for it to boot up.\u00a0 (time this)<\/p>\n

I found myself staring at the boot screen for a long time.<\/p>\n

Since the machine was plugged into a QLogic HBA and had all sorts of paths, that took even longer to boot.\u00a0 I’m not talking about the Linux part where the init starts walking through everything.\u00a0 I’m talking about before we get there.\u00a0\u00a0 AND, when I got there, the local hard drive could not be found!!!<\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0 It was a bug in the QLogic firmware.\u00a0 So we had to update it.\u00a0 That was not easy nor was it fun.<\/p>\n

The package you download to do it is here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/driverdownloads.qlogic.com\/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI\/Product_detail.aspx?oemid=376<\/p>\n

We got 2.04af at this time.<\/p>\n

But how to update?\u00a0 Would be nice if they had a bin image that run under Linux, but that wasn’t the case.\u00a0 The solution was to install SAN Surfer and update it that way.<\/p>\n

Looking for the eUFI shell?\u00a0 Its not there.\u00a0 Too dangerous, so IBM doesn’t ship it.\u00a0 This is probably a good idea given the support nightmare you could cause yourself, but not when 3rd party tools tell you to boot up into the eUFI.\u00a0 That just causes more confusion.<\/p>\n

After eUFI was updated, boot time improved.\u00a0 But I think we could do better here.<\/p>\n

The silver lining?\u00a0 This is one solid box.\u00a0 Performance is outstanding and a good quality piece of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing on site with a customer’s x3650 M2, getting it ready to install GPFS.\u00a0 There are a few notes on this machine: First impression is that this thing boots like a p-Series machine.\u00a0 In other words, it takes forever to boot!\u00a0 First if you plug it in you have to wait about 3…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,30],"tags":[927],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}