Server Dell PowerEdge T410

Manuals

• here, online version of the main manual here with chapter on LED status here

Install notes

• In BIOS
  • Activate Virtualization support
  • Power Management -> OS Control
  • Report kbd errors: NO
• Installing squeeze (frozen but still testing) from daily image (17/08/2010)
  • Complains about missing bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw & bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j3.fw
    • Get it on another machine and put it on USB stick: aptitude install firmware-bnx2 ; cp /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-*-09-5.0.0.j3.fw /media/XXXX
    • Actually I had also an additional Intel network card so I could have skipped this step...
  • Partitionning:
    there is a first primary partition for Dell Utilities (FAT16), I left it just in case...;
    there is also a second primary partition: 2Gb of FAT32, empty, so I deleted it.
    partition #2: primary 10Gb ext3 / label=ROOT
    partition #3: primary 16Gb swap
    partition #5: logical 2Tb physical volume for LVM
    Configure LVM / ok to write table / Create VG with sda5, called DATA
  • Tasksel: SSH & standard utilities
  • Reboot
• SSH: PermitRootLogin no / ssh-copy-id ...
• Install mc, sudo (adduser xxx sudo)
• Ifrename
  • I experienced changes of interface name attributions on previous machines so I prefer to use ifrename
  • aptitude install ifrename
  • Create /etc/iftab then reboot

intelG mac 00:1b:21:xx:xx:xx
intelD mac 00:1b:21:xx:xx:xx
bcm1   mac 84:2b:2b:xx:xx:xx
bcm2   mac 84:2b:2b:xx:xx:xx

• XEN
  • see notes on Debian wiki
  • aptitude install linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 xen-tools xen-utils
  • backup /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
  • edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp, and uncomment line "(network-script network-bridge)" or for a non-default interface ethX: "(network-script 'network-bridge netdev=ethX')"
  • reboot
  • cat /proc/xen/balloon (to verify xend started)

1. xen-create-image --hostname my-xen1 --dhcp --dir /home/s1-xen1/