Hi there,
I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so we're okay there.
My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?
ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm encountering two errors.
The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error. I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.
The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest), the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course incorrect.
As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP 50x errors.
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thus Drew spake: | Hi there, | | I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ | ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The | hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so | we're okay there. | | My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM | ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how? | | ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm | encountering two errors. | | The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password | then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error. | I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both | times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created | according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I | find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like. | | The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest), | the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course | incorrect. | | As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting | Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The | support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP | 50x errors.
To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
Software RAIDs are *heaven* compared to all those HBAs when it comes to manageability (talking of DAS, here...).
Regards,
Timo
Timo Schoeler wrote:
To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on there too.
With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do RAID1 or RAID0 :)
Ralph
To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on there too.
With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do RAID1 or RAID0 :)
The 7k model on this one does RAID 5 and the two non-standard 5E & 5EE versions. The performance on the contoller is not bad given that the RAID is hung off either the PCI-X133 or PCI-E busses (forget which). Both CentOS & Win2k03 performance is adequate.
As an aside, I'm still running tests on Samba 3 as a AD domain member and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for another list.
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thus Drew spake:
To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on there too.
With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do RAID1 or RAID0 :)
The 7k model on this one does RAID 5 and the two non-standard 5E & 5EE versions. The performance on the contoller is not bad given that the RAID is hung off either the PCI-X133 or PCI-E busses (forget which). Both CentOS & Win2k03 performance is adequate.
Mine stuck in the PCI-X133 (the x345 doesn't have PCIe). It should be able to provide decent performance. However, even given that decent software for management is provided, I like to go the ``it's already supported out of the box by the OS installed'' approch (I must confess that I really like OpenBSD in this regard)...
As an aside, I'm still running tests on Samba 3 as a AD domain member and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for another list.
Best,
Timo
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thus Ralph Angenendt spake:
Timo Schoeler wrote:
To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm.
The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on there too.
I really never tried it; the machine itself is very nice for an x86-based server, but the HBA itself didn't convince me (that is, I read the documentation and decided that it's not enterprise class ;)...
With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do RAID1 or RAID0 :)
Ralph
Best,
Timo
Drew wrote:
Hi there,
I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so we're okay there.
My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?
ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm encountering two errors.
The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error. I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.
The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest), the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course incorrect.
As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP 50x errors.
I have version 8.30 installed on some 336 servers and it seems to work fine - and I can run it on one box and access the others from the same interface. As I recall, I just did an rpm install from a cd that came with one of the machines - or maybe a later 3550 and it installed its own JVM and a shell script to start itself. I haven't actually used it for anything but looking at the disk status since the volumes were set up with the bios tools, but the authentication and everything works at least up to that point. I don't see anything special under /etc/pam.d but maybe that's new in 9.0.
Drew wrote:
Hi there,
I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so we're okay there.
My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how?
ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm encountering two errors.
The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error. I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like.
The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest), the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course incorrect.
As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP 50x errors.
Use mdadm as Timo suggests. ServeRaid will only give you grief.
Ian
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