On 5/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Kroth</b> <<a href="mailto:bpkroth@...">bpkroth@...</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hanni Ali wrote:<br>><br>> I would be interested to hear anyone else's experiences with IPMI.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>><br>> Hanni<br><br>I've recently started using IPMI software (ipmitool, ipmievd) where I
<br>can, but mostly for monitoring disk arrays, temperatures, and things<br>like that that aren't available on some systems (nearly all in my case)<br>via lm_sensors, ACPI, SMART, etc.. Support for the various chips is not
<br>great, but its nice to get alerts that the BIOS thinks a disk is dead<br>before the other one dies or someone finally arrives in the room to hear<br>some server beeping. That can be a pain to track down.</blockquote>
<div><br>For storage I'll use 3ware SATA RAID controllers, I'll hope they have IPMI because it's very good to know witch disk is faulty without having to access the OS.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think network booting would probably be your best bet. In a cluster<br>setup machines should only take on one of a couple roles and it would be<br>easier to manage a handful of images rather than individual machines.<br>
Of course you also need to figure out redundancy for your network image<br>server at that point.</blockquote><div><br>Everybody seems to agree with you... I already have a memtest86+ working through a pxe remote boot here...
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Curious to see what you go with.</blockquote><div><br>I'll deploy everything on july's last week.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Brian<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-cluster@g.o">gentoo-cluster@g.o
</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Thank you Brian.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Daniel<br>
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