SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-20 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I'm new to BSD and I want to know, if the SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e is supported under FreeBSD 8.2. We installed FreeBSD on SATA disks, but I can't see any devices through the SAS HBA, so maybe I have to load the driver first. cu denny ___ freebsd-stable

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi Rumen, Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2011, 11:09 -0700 schrieb Rumen Telbizov: > Denny, > > LSI 9200-8e is based on the SAS2008 chip and the driver for that chip (mps) > has recently been merged > from current into stable but before 8.2-RELEASE. Therefore if you're using > 8.2-RELEASE iso image to >

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-23 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2011, 02:10 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Morozovsky: > and about to out it into day-to-day use 8.2-stable system, working as > big-just-in-case archive with sources from Mar1 based on SuperMicro > case/mobo > with LSI SAS2008 + LSI expander + 24 SATA RE4 disk bays. exactly t

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Denny Schierz
hi everybody, I've got FreeBSD running: FreeBSD foobar.domain 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE with our LSI 9200 SAS :-) thanks to Rumen, Jeremy and you :-) zpool with two raidz: root@iscsihead-m:/[-bash]# zpool create bigPool raidz da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 raidz da6 da7 da8 da9 da10 spare da5 da11

way for failover zpool (no HAST needed)

2011-03-29 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, my two nodes are running fine with 8.2-stable and the LSI 9200-8e and now, I want to build a failover for the Zpool (and later ISCSI target) Both nodes are connected to the same disks (jbod) and now I need a way, to get the zpool(s) running on the node with the CARP public IP. I found someth

OSX GlobalSAN and istgt problems

2011-03-30 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i've installed isgt and it works fine with Windows7 and Linux Debian (Sqeeze) and Ubuntu 10.10, but not for OSX 10.6.7: == Mar 30 10:32:59 iscsihead-m istgt[3658]: Login from isch (130.83.160.187) on iqn.san.rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de:10gb LU1 (130.83.160.87:3260,1), I

8.2: ISCSI: ISTGT a bit slow, I think

2011-04-04 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I testing the maximum throughput from ISCSI, but I've reached only ~50MB/s (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da13 bs=1M count=2048) with crossover 1Gb/s cabel and raw disk. Both machines are FreeBSD 8.2-stable with istgt and the Onboard ISCSI initiator With ZFS as target we loose round about 8-10MB/s

Re: 8.2: ISCSI: ISTGT a bit slow, I think

2011-04-04 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 04.04.2011 um 18:04 schrieb Claus Guttesen: > > I've reached almost 118 MB/s but I don't have access to the > configuration atm. This was from a windows 7 client. From vmware I've > gotten 107 MB/s during a debian 6 server installation. I'll post the > settings when I get back to work. t

Re: 8.2: ISCSI: ISTGT a bit slow, I think

2011-04-05 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.04.2011, 10:01 +0200 schrieb Claus Guttesen: > The only setting I changed was: > > QueueDepth 64 > [...] I've tested now the default params with your Queue, but nothing changed: On same time startet with clusterssh: root@dhcp1 ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M

FreeBSD-8.2: Channel Bounding: LACP or Roundrobin? With Cisco Catalyst

2011-04-08 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I want to bound two e1000 (1Gb/s) channels and use at the moment LCAP, but the max throughput is slower, than without channel bounding. I've got round about 70MB/s instead of > 150MB/s - 200MB/s. I used iperf with standard options: :~$ iperf -f M -c 1.2.3.4 --

Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, after testing severals loadbalancing (LACP) types with Cisco, we saw, that we never get more than 112MB/s with two network cards and iperf. So, we tested without loadbalancing, 4 Clients (iperf -f M -c ) and two target IPs. Every IP has his own 1Gb/s network card. On the end, two clients had

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 11.04.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Michael Loftis: > Most switches load balance based on MAC addresses, not IP, unless it > is routing the traffic as a Layer 3 switch then you can enable IP > based load balancing in some of those. Also you might simply be that was the reason, why we disabled the lo

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 11.04.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: > Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of > active-active ... > just a thought... 150% sure. I used two dedicated NICs WITHOUT any loadbalancing. The sum has to be more than 112MB/s. cu denny ps. I get every answ

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs

2011-04-12 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Montag, den 11.04.2011, 21:52 +0200 schrieb Denny Schierz: > hi, > > Am 11.04.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: > > > Are you certain you are not somehow running active-passive instead of > > active-active ... > > just a thought... > > 150% sure. I

Re: Network throughput: Never get more than 112MB/s über two NICs *SOLVED*

2011-04-13 Thread Denny Schierz
Hi Dan, Am Dienstag, den 12.04.2011, 17:42 -0500 schrieb Dan Nelson: > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/hardware/module/guide/03instal.html#wpxref23495 you saved our week :-) That was it. My Cisco administrator take a closer look and found out, that both NICs was connecte

Re: way for failover zpool (no HAST needed)

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 29.03.2011, 23:36 +0300 schrieb Mikolaj Golub: > > 2) There are complaints from watchdog. what happens, if the watchdog isn't available and one or both nodes are rebooting or something else? the other thing what could happen: the connection between the host and the SAS swi

MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, if I remove the SAS cable from the JBOD (connected through a SAS switch), all disks disappears, that's fine and expected, but if I reconnect the cable, the disks are not added anymore. I've red to use "camcontrol rescan all", but nothing happens. I don't get my /dev/da0-47 devices anymore and

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 14:20 +0200 schrieb Denny Schierz: > I've red to use "camcontrol rescan all", but nothing happens. I don't > get my /dev/da0-47 devices anymore and have to reboot the whole machine. small update: I've tested it again and only some

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 05:57 -0700 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > camcontrol reset 0 0:22:0 is available, 0:46:0 not: root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:22:0 Reset of 0:22:0 was successful root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:46:0 camcontrol: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device foun

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 20:23 -0700 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > I don't mean to sound critical, but why do you guys do this? two answers: 1.) Think of: It could happen, instead of it shouldn't happen :-) 2.) Adding a new JBOD on the fly, without reboot the whole machine, what I've done

Re: way for failover zpool (no HAST needed): hastmon

2011-04-28 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, ok, here we go: I've installed hastmon and both FreeBSD nodes and one on Linux Debian as watchdog: Simple setup: # cat /etc.local/hastmon.conf resource sanip { exec /usr/local/_rbg/bin/san-ip friends iscsihead-m iscsihead-s nos on iscsihead-m { re

istgt: getting authentification working with CHAP

2011-07-13 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, since a while I try to get authentication working, but something is missing or wrong: My HowTo is: http://zewaren.net/site/?q=node/70 If I try from Windows7 or Ubuntu 10.4 discovery devices, I get nothing back: :~ # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p san:3261 :~ # But, discovery authenticatio

Re: istgt: getting authentification working with CHAP *SOLVED*

2011-07-14 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2011, 11:50 +0200 schrieb Denny Schierz: > since a while I try to get authentication working, but something is > missing or wrong: I had to use the Initiatorname from the real initiator in auth.conf and istgt.conf. It seems that it isn't possible to ov

How to update like Debian

2011-09-29 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I think, I do not understand, how to update (security/bugfixes) my 8.2 machines :-) I searched a lot and tried, what I have found in the docs, but I had trouble ... What I have done (one thing was working, but didn't know, if it is correct): From the Docs: # /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch

Re: How to update like Debian

2011-09-29 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 29.09.2011 um 18:35 schrieb Freddie Cash: > To do a binary upgrade of the base OS, you use freebsd-update: > # freebsd-update fetch > # freebsd-update update That was the first, what I have found, but I get only errors: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mir

Re: How to update like Debian

2011-09-29 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 29.09.2011 um 21:06 schrieb Matthew Seaman: > Releases are called things like 8.2-RELEASE-p2 In general, if it > doesn't have 'RELEASE' in the name then it isn't one, and usually it Ah, ok, it's getting more clearly. We have some jbods connected on a LSI 9200-8e which uses the mps drive

MPS LSI Driver status FreeBSD9 Beta3?

2011-10-20 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, does anybody use the mps driver (if available) with Release9-Beta3? the mps driver from 8.2 has problems with two paths over a LSI SAS 6160 Switch. eg. timeouts ... . Workaround: poweroff the second switch. So it's interesting how stable/far the mps is from FB 9 Beta3 cu denny signature.a

Re: MPS LSI Driver status FreeBSD9 Beta3?

2011-10-20 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 20.10.2011 um 18:14 schrieb Royce Williams: > > Denny, I don't have the same hardware so cannot test, but I only see a > couple of changes committed to HEAD not MFC'd back to 8-STABLE: thanks for the tip. I wrote Ken Smith a mail about the problems. cu denny

8.2-STABLE: ISTGT - istgt_lu_disk_execute: ***ERROR*** lu_disk_lbwrite() failed

2011-11-01 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, since tonight I get millions of error messages from the ISTGT under 8.2-STABLE Nov 1 02:00:03 iscsihead-m istgt[5152]: istgt_lu_disk.c:3960:istgt_lu_disk_lbwrite: ***ERROR*** lu_disk_write() failed Nov 1 02:00:03 iscsihead-m istgt[5152]: istgt_lu_disk.c:6051:istgt_lu_disk_execute: ***ERROR*

Re: 8.2-STABLE: ISTGT - istgt_lu_disk_execute: ***ERROR*** lu_disk_lbwrite() failed

2011-11-01 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2011, 13:48 +0100 schrieb Johan Hendriks: > Could it be that one drive is corrupt, or not available anymore? > Just a wild guess. nope, all drives are OK. I had to reboot (reset) the server and it works again, but along ... cu denny signature.asc Description: T

What about network virtualization for jails?

2011-11-25 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I searched for network problems for my jail (can get out, via ssh from jail, but not ssh into the jail, other as the host) and reading something about network virtualization for jails: http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/ does this work for FreeBSD9 ? cu denny___

Re: What about network virtualization for jails?

2011-11-25 Thread Denny Schierz
hi Shawn, Am 25.11.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Shawn Webb: > Yes. You can use VIMAGE/vnet with jails. In fact, I just blogged about > how to set it up: > > http://0xfeedface.org/blog/2011-11-21/lattera/freebsd-vnet-jail-admin-project > > I'm also writing a php project that will help administer FreeBS

9/RC2: start jails (with epair): ifconfig :permission denied

2011-11-28 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I created and started a V2 jail by hand and it works. Now it should start automatically: From a HowTo: # # Jails configuration # jail_enable="YES" jail_v2_enable="YES" jail_list="web" jail_web_name="web" jail_web_hostname="web.domain.foo" jail_web_devfs_enable="YES" jail_web_devfs_ruleset=

Possible: Configure SAS Sun Jbod J4200 ?

2011-11-30 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, we have a Sun Jbod SAS J4200 and actually there is a running daemon under Solaris 10, which is needed, to configure the JBOD over a (badly) Java Sun tool from a other host machine (Windows XP, for example). If I switch from Solaris to FreeBSD, I don't know, if I can view the status and con

FB9-stable: bridge0 doesn't come up via rc

2012-01-17 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I have problems starting the bridge via rc.d: rc.conf: cloned_interfaces="bridge0" ifconfig_bge0="up" ifconfig_bridge0="addm bge0 up" ifconfig_bridge0="inet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 up" defaultrouter="192.168.1.254" gateway_enable="YES" It doesn't work. After reboot I have to set u

Re: FB9-stable: bridge0 doesn't come up via rc

2012-01-17 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 17.01.2012 um 14:23 schrieb Stefan Esser: > You forgot that rc.conf does not contain commands, but only variable > assignments. The latter of the last two lines overwrites the value > set in the former. ah, ok, that wasn't clear for me. I tried several combinations, so I try it again. Thanks

Re: FB9-stable: bridge0 doesn't come up via rc *SOLVED*

2012-01-18 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, for google: Am 18.01.2012 um 08:15 schrieb Denny Schierz: > > Am 17.01.2012 um 14:23 schrieb Stefan Esser: > >> You forgot that rc.conf does not contain commands, but only variable >> assignments. The latter of the last two lines overwrites the value >> set

Fighting with vnet / jails epair and so on

2012-01-18 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, after most parts works with my bridge setups works, I want to get vnet for my jails working. In the morning I started a jail and got only the local interface back, but no epair0b. Now I did something so that I can see _all_ interfaces from outside (bridge0 / bge* / epair0* ... ) but without

Re: Fighting with vnet / jails epair and so on

2012-01-18 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 18.01.2012 um 16:13 schrieb Shawn Webb: > I've done a bit of research about vnet jails: > http://archive.0xfeedface.org/blog/2011-11-21/lattera/freebsd-vnet-jail-admin-project I know that tool too, but the host is an envoirenment with SSH only and nothing more and it should be work, with

Re: Fighting with vnet / jails epair and so on

2012-01-18 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 18.01.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Philipp Huebner: > > I use 9.0.0 release for host and jail and a generic kernel with OPTIONS > VIMAGE being the only change/addition. > No problem. so, how looks your rc.conf config ? Do you use vimage the tool? I can't use vimage (as I know) on sparc64. Wha

Re: Fighting with vnet / jails epair and so on

2012-01-19 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I've created a new patch (adapted the old freebsd-9RC2 patch) for /etc/rc.d/jail: The original patch: http://wiki.polymorf.fr/files/jail_rc.patch My patch: http://pastebin.com/9LdLwaNA It works (was very happy) if you start the jail, but has problems with stopping: it shows in jls still

Re: Fighting with vnet / jails epair and so on

2012-01-20 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 19.01.2012 um 23:33 schrieb Philipp Huebner: > jail_dhcp_exec_earlypoststart0="ifconfig epair9b vnet dhcp" this option doesn't exists in a plain FreeBSD9 install. I had to patch, to get this options. I've written to the jail list too. cu denny___