Bieten

How to manage and configure the Suiker Bieten

First some specs about the cluster:

• 4 x Dell R710
  • 2 x Intel X5667 quadcore
  • 96GB DDR3 ram
  • 2 x 600GB 15K RPM SAS disks in hardware raid 1
  • Intel dual 10Ge X520-DA2 network card
  • iDRAC6 enterprise management card
  • 2 x SAS 6Gbps External Controller
  • Onboard 1Ge network cards are disabled in the BIOS
• 4 x Dell MD3200
  • 2 raid controllers
  • 12 x 2TB NearLine SAS 6Gbps 7.2k 3.5" harddrives
  • 4 x Dell MD1200
    • 12 x 2TB NearLine SAS 6Gbps 7.2k 3.5" harddrives

There is also one machine for the management of the storage systems:

• Dell R210II
  • Intel Core i3-2100
  • 4GB DDR3 ram
  • 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA disk
  • 2 x 1Gbit network card
  • iDRAC6 enterprise management card

This machine is connected with a Dell PowerConnect 3524 switch to the Dell MD3200 storage controllers.

Hostnames of the management machine:

• biet-mngt.ipmi.nikhef.nl is to reach the machine itself.
• biet-mngt-oobm.ipmi.nikhef.nl to reach the ipmi/drac/oobm interface of the machine.

To access and configure the storage

Log onto the biet-mngt machine as root. Make sure that X forwarding is configured and working.

Start the following command: /opt/dell/mdstoragesoftware/mdstoragemanager/client/SMclient

This will start the Dell storage managent software.

If you'll want to reconfigure one of the storage blocks from scratch, do the following:

• Start the Dell storage managent software.
• Click once on the storage device you want to reconfigure.
• Click on Tools > Load Storage Array Configuration
• You'll get a pop-up that you're sure that you want to do that, click on Yes
• You'll get a screen where you can see a couple of *.cfg files, choose the one that has the same name as the storage device.
• Click on Execute and wait when the script has finished configuring the storage device.