Server Dell PowerEdge T410

Manuals

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)
Renaming interfaces (always easier to remember what's plugged where...)
- à la 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

- à la udev
  - actually we don't need ifrename because udev is now doing the same, see /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, you can simply change the NAME key
- Be sure the old name is not used anywhere else in your config, typically in /etc/network/interfaces
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)