XenServer 5.6 - Getting Dell OpenManage Server Administrator working with Dell IT Assistant alerts

Posted At : June 23, 2010 11:52 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

First we follow instructions on the Dell Wiki to install the OpenManage repository and install the OpenManage Server Administrator.

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1# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
2Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
3 Importing key into RPM.
4Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios
5 Importing key into RPM.
6Write repository configuration
7Downloading repository RPM
8Installing repository rpm: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh50/prereq/dell-omsa-repository-2-5.noarch.rpm
9Installing yum plugins for system id
10Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
11Determining fastest mirrors
12citrix | 951 B 00:00
13citrix/primary | 243 B 00:00
14dell-omsa-indep | 1.9 kB 00:00
15dell-omsa-indep/primary | 74 kB 00:00
16dell-omsa-indep 525/525
17dell-omsa-specific | 1.9 kB 00:00
18dell-omsa-specific/primary | 74 kB 00:00
19dell-omsa-specific 525/525
20Setting up Install Process
21Resolving Dependencies
22
23================================================================================
24 Package Arch Version Repository Size
25================================================================================
26Installing:
27 yum-dellsysid i386 2.2.19-10.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 15 k
28Installing for dependencies:
29 libsmbios i386 2.2.19-10.1.el5 dell-omsa-specific 1.5 M
30 python-ctypes i386 1.0.2-1.1.el5 dell-omsa-specific 211 k
31 python-smbios i386 2.2.19-10.1.el5 dell-omsa-specific 69 k
32 smbios-utils-python i386 2.2.19-10.1.el5 dell-omsa-specific 56 k
33
34Transaction Summary
35================================================================================
36Install 5 Package(s)
37Update 0 Package(s)
38Remove 0 Package(s)
39
40Total download size: 1.8 M
41Downloading Packages:
42(1/5): yum-dellsysid-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm | 15 kB 00:00
43(2/5): smbios-utils-python-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm | 56 kB 00:00
44(3/5): python-smbios-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm | 69 kB 00:00
45(4/5): python-ctypes-1.0.2-1.1.el5.i386.rpm | 211 kB 00:00
46(5/5): libsmbios-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm | 1.5 MB 00:00
47--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
48Total 1.6 MB/s | 1.8 MB 00:01
49Running rpm_check_debug
50Running Transaction Test
51Finished Transaction Test
52Transaction Test Succeeded
53Running Transaction
54 Installing : libsmbios 1/5
55 Installing : python-ctypes 2/5
56 Installing : python-smbios 3/5
57 Installing : smbios-utils-python 4/5
58 Installing : yum-dellsysid 5/5
59
60Installed:
61 yum-dellsysid.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5
62
63Dependency Installed:
64 libsmbios.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5
65 python-ctypes.i386 0:1.0.2-1.1.el5
66 python-smbios.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5
67 smbios-utils-python.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5
68
69Complete!
70Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror
71No plugin match for: rhnplugin
72Cleaning up Everything
73Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
74Done!

Optionally we install OpenManage Server Administrator. In order to install it, we need some packages not currently installed. Because of that, we will need to temporarily enable the CentOS base repository.

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1# yum --enablerepo base install srvadmin-all
2Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror
3Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
4 * base: ftp.lug.udel.edu
5Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
6Finished
7Setting up Install Process
8Resolving Dependencies
9--> Running transaction check
10---> Package srvadmin-all.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
11--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-webserver = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
12--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storageservices = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
13--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-base = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
14--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-idrac = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
15--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac4 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
16--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-standardAgent = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
17--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac5 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-all
18--> Running transaction check
19---> Package srvadmin-base.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
20--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-cm = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-base
21--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-omacore = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-base
22--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-smcommon = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-base
23---> Package srvadmin-idrac.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
24--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-idracdrsc = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-idrac
25--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-idracadm = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-idrac
26---> Package srvadmin-rac4.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
27--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-racdrsc4 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-rac4
28--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-racadm4 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-rac4
29--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-racsvc = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-rac4
30---> Package srvadmin-rac5.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
31--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-racdrsc5 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-rac5
32--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-racadm5 = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-rac5
33---> Package srvadmin-standardAgent.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
34--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-itunnelprovider = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-standardAgent
35---> Package srvadmin-storageservices.i386 0:6.2.0-10.1.2.el5 set to be updated
36--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storelib = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
37--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storage-populator = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
38--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storage = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
39--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-sysfsutils = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
40--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-fsa = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
41--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-megalib = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-storageservices
42--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storelib-sysfs for package: srvadmin-storageservices
43--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-storelib-libpci for package: srvadmin-storageservices
44---> Package srvadmin-webserver.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 set to be updated
45--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-iws = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-webserver
46--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-smweb = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-webserver
47--> Running transaction check
48---> Package srvadmin-cm.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
49---> Package srvadmin-fsa.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el3 set to be updated
50---> Package srvadmin-idracadm.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
51--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-hapi = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-idracadm
52--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-omilcore for package: srvadmin-idracadm
53--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-omilcore for package: srvadmin-idracadm
54---> Package srvadmin-idracdrsc.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
55--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-idrac-components = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-idracdrsc
56--> Processing Dependency: libomacs32.so.1 for package: srvadmin-idracdrsc
57--> Processing Dependency: libdcsgen32.so.5 for package: srvadmin-idracdrsc
58--> Processing Dependency: libdcsdrs32.so for package: srvadmin-idracdrsc
59--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-idrac-components for package: srvadmin-idracdrsc
60---> Package srvadmin-itunnelprovider.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el5 set to be updated
61--> Processing Dependency: openwsman-client >= 2.1.5 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
62--> Processing Dependency: openwsman-server >= 2.1.5 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
63--> Processing Dependency: libwsman1 >= 2.1.5 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
64--> Processing Dependency: sblim-sfcb >= 1.3.2 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
65--> Processing Dependency: libcmpiCppImpl0 >= 2.0.0 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
66--> Processing Dependency: sblim-sfcc >= 2.1.0 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
67--> Processing Dependency: libcmpiCppImpl.so.0 for package: srvadmin-itunnelprovider
68---> Package srvadmin-iws.i386 0:6.2.0-1.18.el5 set to be updated
69--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-jre for package: srvadmin-iws
70---> Package srvadmin-megalib.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el3 set to be updated
71---> Package srvadmin-omacore.i386 0:6.2.0-1.18.el5 set to be updated
72--> Processing Dependency: libxmlsup.so.2 for package: srvadmin-omacore
73--> Processing Dependency: libdcship.so.5 for package: srvadmin-omacore
74---> Package srvadmin-racadm4.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
75---> Package srvadmin-racadm5.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
76---> Package srvadmin-racdrsc4.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
77--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac4-components = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-racdrsc4
78--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac4-components for package: srvadmin-racdrsc4
79---> Package srvadmin-racdrsc5.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
80--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac5-components = 6.2.0 for package: srvadmin-racdrsc5
81--> Processing Dependency: srvadmin-rac5-components for package: srvadmin-racdrsc5
82---> Package srvadmin-racsvc.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
83---> Package srvadmin-smcommon.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5 set to be updated
84---> Package srvadmin-smweb.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5 set to be updated
85---> Package srvadmin-storage.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5 set to be updated
86---> Package srvadmin-storage-populator.i386 0:6.2.0-1.25.el3 set to be updated
87---> Package srvadmin-storelib.i386 0:6.2.0-1.11.el3 set to be updated
88---> Package srvadmin-storelib-libpci.i386 0:6.2.0-1.1.el5 set to be updated
89---> Package srvadmin-storelib-sysfs.i386 0:6.2.0-1.1.el5 set to be updated
90---> Package srvadmin-sysfsutils.i386 0:6.2.0-2.1.el5 set to be updated
91--> Running transaction check
92---> Package libcmpiCppImpl0.i386 0:2.0.0Dell-1.1.el5 set to be updated
93---> Package libwsman1.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 set to be updated
94---> Package openwsman-client.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 set to be updated
95---> Package openwsman-server.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 set to be updated
96---> Package sblim-sfcb.i386 0:1.3.5-40.el5 set to be updated
97--> Processing Dependency: perl(LWP::UserAgent) for package: sblim-sfcb
98---> Package sblim-sfcc.i386 0:2.2.1-40.el5 set to be updated
99---> Package srvadmin-deng.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el5 set to be updated
100---> Package srvadmin-hapi.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5 set to be updated
101---> Package srvadmin-idrac-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
102---> Package srvadmin-isvc.i386 0:6.2.0-1.16.el5 set to be updated
103---> Package srvadmin-jre.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5 set to be updated
104---> Package srvadmin-omcommon.i386 0:6.2.0-1.19.el5 set to be updated
105---> Package srvadmin-omilcore.noarch 0:6.2.0-1.9.el5 set to be updated
106--> Processing Dependency: smbios-utils-bin for package: srvadmin-omilcore
107---> Package srvadmin-rac4-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
108---> Package srvadmin-rac5-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677 set to be updated
109---> Package srvadmin-xmlsup.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5 set to be updated
110--> Processing Dependency: libxslt.so.1 for package: srvadmin-xmlsup
111--> Running transaction check
112---> Package libxslt.i386 0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2 set to be updated
113---> Package perl-libwww-perl.noarch 0:5.805-1.1.1 set to be updated
114--> Processing Dependency: perl-HTML-Parser >= 3.33 for package: perl-libwww-perl
115--> Processing Dependency: perl(URI::URL) for package: perl-libwww-perl
116--> Processing Dependency: perl(URI) for package: perl-libwww-perl
117--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTML::Entities) for package: perl-libwww-perl
118--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Zlib) for package: perl-libwww-perl
119--> Processing Dependency: perl(URI::Heuristic) for package: perl-libwww-perl
120--> Processing Dependency: perl(URI::Escape) for package: perl-libwww-perl
121---> Package smbios-utils-bin.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5 set to be updated
122--> Running transaction check
123---> Package perl-Compress-Zlib.i386 0:1.42-1.fc6 set to be updated
124---> Package perl-HTML-Parser.i386 0:3.55-1.fc6 set to be updated
125--> Processing Dependency: perl-HTML-Tagset >= 3.03 for package: perl-HTML-Parser
126--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTML::Tagset) for package: perl-HTML-Parser
127---> Package perl-URI.noarch 0:1.35-3 set to be updated
128--> Running transaction check
129---> Package perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch 0:3.10-2.1.1 set to be updated
130--> Finished Dependency Resolution
131
132Dependencies Resolved
133
134===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
135 Package Arch Version Repository Size
136===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
137Installing:
138 srvadmin-all i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.5 k
139Installing for dependencies:
140 libcmpiCppImpl0 i386 2.0.0Dell-1.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 93 k
141 libwsman1 i386 2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 211 k
142 libxslt i386 1.1.17-2.el5_2.2 base 485 k
143 openwsman-client i386 2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 115 k
144 openwsman-server i386 2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 146 k
145 perl-Compress-Zlib i386 1.42-1.fc6 base 52 k
146 perl-HTML-Parser i386 3.55-1.fc6 base 92 k
147 perl-HTML-Tagset noarch 3.10-2.1.1 base 15 k
148 perl-URI noarch 1.35-3 base 116 k
149 perl-libwww-perl noarch 5.805-1.1.1 base 376 k
150 sblim-sfcb i386 1.3.5-40.el5 base 1.3 M
151 sblim-sfcc i386 2.2.1-40.el5 base 101 k
152 smbios-utils-bin i386 2.2.19-10.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 105 k
153 srvadmin-base i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
154 srvadmin-cm i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 17 M
155 srvadmin-deng i386 6.2.0-1.6.el5 dell-omsa-indep 714 k
156 srvadmin-fsa i386 6.2.0-1.6.el3 dell-omsa-indep 2.6 k
157 srvadmin-hapi i386 6.2.0-1.17.el5 dell-omsa-indep 817 k
158 srvadmin-idrac i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
159 srvadmin-idrac-components i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 62 k
160 srvadmin-idracadm i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 2.6 M
161 srvadmin-idracdrsc i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 17 k
162 srvadmin-isvc i386 6.2.0-1.16.el5 dell-omsa-indep 6.2 M
163 srvadmin-itunnelprovider i386 6.2.0-1.6.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.0 M
164 srvadmin-iws i386 6.2.0-1.18.el5 dell-omsa-indep 4.9 M
165 srvadmin-jre i386 6.2.0-1.17.el5 dell-omsa-indep 40 M
166 srvadmin-megalib i386 6.2.0-1.6.el3 dell-omsa-indep 528 k
167 srvadmin-omacore i386 6.2.0-1.18.el5 dell-omsa-indep 1.7 M
168 srvadmin-omcommon i386 6.2.0-1.19.el5 dell-omsa-indep 4.1 M
169 srvadmin-omilcore noarch 6.2.0-1.9.el5 dell-omsa-indep 28 k
170 srvadmin-rac4 i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
171 srvadmin-rac4-components i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 52 k
172 srvadmin-rac5 i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
173 srvadmin-rac5-components i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 61 k
174 srvadmin-racadm4 i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 190 k
175 srvadmin-racadm5 i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 1.3 M
176 srvadmin-racdrsc4 i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 16 k
177 srvadmin-racdrsc5 i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 17 k
178 srvadmin-racsvc i386 6.2.0-677 dell-omsa-indep 66 k
179 srvadmin-smcommon i386 6.2.0-1.29.el5 dell-omsa-indep 592 k
180 srvadmin-smweb i386 6.2.0-1.29.el5 dell-omsa-indep 12 M
181 srvadmin-standardAgent i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
182 srvadmin-storage i386 6.2.0-1.29.el5 dell-omsa-indep 778 k
183 srvadmin-storage-populator i386 6.2.0-1.25.el3 dell-omsa-indep 1.2 M
184 srvadmin-storageservices i386 6.2.0-10.1.2.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.6 k
185 srvadmin-storelib i386 6.2.0-1.11.el3 dell-omsa-indep 277 k
186 srvadmin-storelib-libpci i386 6.2.0-1.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 41 k
187 srvadmin-storelib-sysfs i386 6.2.0-1.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 41 k
188 srvadmin-sysfsutils i386 6.2.0-2.1.el5 dell-omsa-indep 47 k
189 srvadmin-webserver i386 6.2.0-1.5.el5 dell-omsa-indep 2.4 k
190 srvadmin-xmlsup i386 6.2.0-1.17.el5 dell-omsa-indep 49 k
191
192Transaction Summary
193===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
194Install 52 Package(s)
195Update 0 Package(s)
196Remove 0 Package(s)
197
198Total download size: 101 M
199Is this ok [y/N]:y
200Downloading Packages:
201(1/52): srvadmin-base-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
202(2/52): srvadmin-idrac-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
203(3/52): srvadmin-rac5-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
204(4/52): srvadmin-standardAgent-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
205(5/52): srvadmin-rac4-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
206(6/52): srvadmin-webserver-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.4 kB 00:00
207(7/52): srvadmin-all-6.2.0-1.5.el5.i386.rpm | 2.5 kB 00:00
208(8/52): srvadmin-fsa-6.2.0-1.6.el3.i386.rpm | 2.6 kB 00:00
209(9/52): srvadmin-storageservices-6.2.0-10.1.2.el5.i386.rpm | 2.6 kB 00:00
210(10/52): perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1.noarch.rpm | 15 kB 00:00
211(11/52): srvadmin-racdrsc4-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 16 kB 00:00
212(12/52): srvadmin-racdrsc5-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 17 kB 00:00
213(13/52): srvadmin-idracdrsc-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 17 kB 00:00
214(14/52): srvadmin-omilcore-6.2.0-1.9.el5.noarch.rpm | 28 kB 00:00
215(15/52): srvadmin-storelib-libpci-6.2.0-1.1.el5.i386.rpm | 41 kB 00:00
216(16/52): srvadmin-storelib-sysfs-6.2.0-1.1.el5.i386.rpm | 41 kB 00:00
217(17/52): srvadmin-sysfsutils-6.2.0-2.1.el5.i386.rpm | 47 kB 00:00
218(18/52): srvadmin-xmlsup-6.2.0-1.17.el5.i386.rpm | 49 kB 00:00
219(19/52): srvadmin-rac4-components-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 52 kB 00:00
220(20/52): perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6.i386.rpm | 52 kB 00:00
221(21/52): srvadmin-rac5-components-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 61 kB 00:00
222(22/52): srvadmin-idrac-components-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 62 kB 00:00
223(23/52): srvadmin-racsvc-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 66 kB 00:00
224(24/52): perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6.i386.rpm | 92 kB 00:00
225(25/52): libcmpiCppImpl0-2.0.0Dell-1.1.el5.i386.rpm | 93 kB 00:00
226(26/52): sblim-sfcc-2.2.1-40.el5.i386.rpm | 101 kB 00:00
227(27/52): smbios-utils-bin-2.2.19-10.1.el5.i386.rpm | 105 kB 00:00
228(28/52): openwsman-client-2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5.i386.rpm | 115 kB 00:00
229(29/52): perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch.rpm | 116 kB 00:00
230(30/52): openwsman-server-2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5.i386.rpm | 146 kB 00:00
231(31/52): srvadmin-racadm4-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 190 kB 00:00
232(32/52): libwsman1-2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5.i386.rpm | 211 kB 00:00
233(33/52): srvadmin-storelib-6.2.0-1.11.el3.i386.rpm | 277 kB 00:00
234(34/52): perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1.noarch.rpm | 376 kB 00:00
235(35/52): libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.i386.rpm | 485 kB 00:00
236(36/52): srvadmin-megalib-6.2.0-1.6.el3.i386.rpm | 528 kB 00:00
237(37/52): srvadmin-smcommon-6.2.0-1.29.el5.i386.rpm | 592 kB 00:00
238(38/52): srvadmin-deng-6.2.0-1.6.el5.i386.rpm | 714 kB 00:00
239(39/52): srvadmin-storage-6.2.0-1.29.el5.i386.rpm | 778 kB 00:00
240(40/52): srvadmin-hapi-6.2.0-1.17.el5.i386.rpm | 817 kB 00:00
241(41/52): srvadmin-storage-populator-6.2.0-1.25.el3.i386.rpm | 1.2 MB 00:00
242(42/52): srvadmin-racadm5-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 1.3 MB 00:00
243(43/52): sblim-sfcb-1.3.5-40.el5.i386.rpm | 1.3 MB 00:00
244(44/52): srvadmin-omacore-6.2.0-1.18.el5.i386.rpm | 1.7 MB 00:00
245(45/52): srvadmin-itunnelprovider-6.2.0-1.6.el5.i386.rpm | 2.0 MB 00:00
246(46/52): srvadmin-idracadm-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 2.6 MB 00:00
247(47/52): srvadmin-omcommon-6.2.0-1.19.el5.i386.rpm | 4.1 MB 00:01
248(48/52): srvadmin-iws-6.2.0-1.18.el5.i386.rpm | 4.9 MB 00:02
249(49/52): srvadmin-isvc-6.2.0-1.16.el5.i386.rpm | 6.2 MB 00:02
250(50/52): srvadmin-smweb-6.2.0-1.29.el5.i386.rpm | 12 MB 00:04
251(51/52): srvadmin-cm-6.2.0-677.i386.rpm | 17 MB 00:05
252(52/52): srvadmin-jre-6.2.0-1.17.el5.i386.rpm | 40 MB 00:37
253---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
254Total 1.6 MB/s | 101 MB 01:03
255warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
256base/gpgkey | 1.5 kB 00:00
257Importing GPG key 0xE8562897 "CentOS-5 Key (CentOS 5 Official Signing Key) <centos-5-key@centos.org>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
258Is this ok [y/N]: y
259Running rpm_check_debug
260Running Transaction Test
261Finished Transaction Test
262Transaction Test Succeeded
263Running Transaction
264 Installing : srvadmin-hapi 1/52
265 Installing : libwsman1 2/52
266 Installing : openwsman-client 3/52
267 Installing : sblim-sfcc 4/52
268 Installing : srvadmin-sysfsutils 5/52
269 Installing : srvadmin-megalib 6/52
270 Installing : srvadmin-storelib 7/52
271 Installing : openwsman-server 8/52
272 Installing : srvadmin-storelib-libpci 9/52
273 Installing : libxslt 10/52
274 Installing : srvadmin-xmlsup 11/52
275 Installing : libcmpiCppImpl0 12/52
276 Installing : smbios-utils-bin 13/52
277 Installing : srvadmin-storelib-sysfs 14/52
278 Installing : perl-Compress-Zlib 15/52
279 Installing : srvadmin-omilcore 16/52
280 **********************************************************
281 After the install process completes, you may need
282 to log out and then log in again to reset the PATH
283 variable to access the Dell OpenManage CLI utilities
284
285 To start all installed services without a reboot,
286 enter the following command: srvadmin-services.sh start
287 **********************************************************
288 Installing : srvadmin-smcommon 17/52
289 Installing : srvadmin-racadm4 18/52
290 Installing : srvadmin-racsvc 19/52
291 Installing : srvadmin-racadm5 20/52
292 Installing : srvadmin-jre 21/52
293 Installing : srvadmin-idracadm 22/52
294 Installing : srvadmin-fsa 23/52
295 Installing : perl-HTML-Tagset 24/52
296 Installing : perl-URI 25/52
297 Installing : srvadmin-deng 26/52
298 Installing : srvadmin-omcommon 27/52
299 Installing : srvadmin-isvc 28/52
300 Installing : srvadmin-omacore 29/52
301 Installing : srvadmin-storage 30/52
302 Installing : srvadmin-storage-populator 31/52
303 Installing : srvadmin-iws 32/52
304 Installing : perl-HTML-Parser 33/52
305 Installing : srvadmin-idrac-components 34/52
306 Installing : srvadmin-cm 35/52
307 Installing : srvadmin-storageservices 36/52
308 Installing : srvadmin-base 37/52
309 Installing : srvadmin-idracdrsc 38/52
310 Installing : srvadmin-idrac 39/52
311 Installing : srvadmin-rac4-components 40/52
312 Installing : srvadmin-racdrsc4 41/52
313 Installing : srvadmin-rac4 42/52
314 Installing : srvadmin-rac5-components 43/52
315 Installing : srvadmin-racdrsc5 44/52
316 Installing : srvadmin-rac5 45/52
317 Installing : perl-libwww-perl 46/52
318 Installing : srvadmin-smweb 47/52
319 Installing : sblim-sfcb 48/52
320 Installing : srvadmin-webserver 49/52
321 Installing : srvadmin-itunnelprovider 50/52
322 Installing : srvadmin-standardAgent 51/52
323 Installing : srvadmin-all 52/52
324
325Installed:
326 srvadmin-all.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5
327
328Dependency Installed:
329 libcmpiCppImpl0.i386 0:2.0.0Dell-1.1.el5 libwsman1.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 libxslt.i386 0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2 openwsman-client.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5
330 openwsman-server.i386 0:2.1.5Dell-2.1.el5 perl-Compress-Zlib.i386 0:1.42-1.fc6 perl-HTML-Parser.i386 0:3.55-1.fc6 perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch 0:3.10-2.1.1
331 perl-URI.noarch 0:1.35-3 perl-libwww-perl.noarch 0:5.805-1.1.1 sblim-sfcb.i386 0:1.3.5-40.el5 sblim-sfcc.i386 0:2.2.1-40.el5
332 smbios-utils-bin.i386 0:2.2.19-10.1.el5 srvadmin-base.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-cm.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-deng.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el5
333 srvadmin-fsa.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el3 srvadmin-hapi.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5 srvadmin-idrac.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-idrac-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677
334 srvadmin-idracadm.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-idracdrsc.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-isvc.i386 0:6.2.0-1.16.el5 srvadmin-itunnelprovider.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el5
335 srvadmin-iws.i386 0:6.2.0-1.18.el5 srvadmin-jre.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5 srvadmin-megalib.i386 0:6.2.0-1.6.el3 srvadmin-omacore.i386 0:6.2.0-1.18.el5
336 srvadmin-omcommon.i386 0:6.2.0-1.19.el5 srvadmin-omilcore.noarch 0:6.2.0-1.9.el5 srvadmin-rac4.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-rac4-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677
337 srvadmin-rac5.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-rac5-components.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-racadm4.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-racadm5.i386 0:6.2.0-677
338 srvadmin-racdrsc4.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-racdrsc5.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-racsvc.i386 0:6.2.0-677 srvadmin-smcommon.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5
339 srvadmin-smweb.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5 srvadmin-standardAgent.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-storage.i386 0:6.2.0-1.29.el5 srvadmin-storage-populator.i386 0:6.2.0-1.25.el3
340 srvadmin-storageservices.i386 0:6.2.0-10.1.2.el5 srvadmin-storelib.i386 0:6.2.0-1.11.el3 srvadmin-storelib-libpci.i386 0:6.2.0-1.1.el5 srvadmin-storelib-sysfs.i386 0:6.2.0-1.1.el5
341 srvadmin-sysfsutils.i386 0:6.2.0-2.1.el5 srvadmin-webserver.i386 0:6.2.0-1.5.el5 srvadmin-xmlsup.i386 0:6.2.0-1.17.el5
342
343Complete!

Now we start up the server administrator:

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1# /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start
2Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
3Starting dell_rbu: [ OK ]
4Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
5Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
6Starting dell_rbu: Already started [ OK ]
7Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
8Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
9Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd: [ OK ]
10Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd: [ OK ]
11Starting dsm_sa_snmpd: [ OK ]
12Starting DSM SA Shared Services: [ OK ]
13
14which: no lockfile in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
15Starting DSM SA Connection Service: invcol Error: Cannot find utilities on the system to execute Inventory Collector.
16Make sure the following utilities are in the path: tar gzip tail rm mkdir chmod ls basename wc lockfile stat
17 [ OK ]

As you can see, we're missing lockfile. Lets install it. First lets find out what package provides it.

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1# yum --enablerepo base whatprovides "*/lockfile"
2Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror
3Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
4 * base: hpc.arc.georgetown.edu
5Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
6Finished
7base/filelists_db | 3.4 MB 00:00
8citrix/filelists | 236 B 00:00
9dell-omsa-indep/filelists | 124 kB 00:00
10dell-omsa-specific/filelists | 1.2 kB 00:00
11procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos.i386 : The procmail mail processing program.
12Repo : base
13Matched from:
14Filename : /usr/bin/lockfile

It's in the package procmail. Lets install it.

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1# yum --enablerepo base install procmail
2Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror
3Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
4 * base: hpc.arc.georgetown.edu
5Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
6Finished
7Setting up Install Process
8Resolving Dependencies
9--> Running transaction check
10---> Package procmail.i386 0:3.22-17.1.el5.centos set to be updated
11--> Finished Dependency Resolution
12
13Dependencies Resolved
14
15===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
16 Package Arch Version Repository Size
17===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
18Installing:
19 procmail i386 3.22-17.1.el5.centos base 166 k
20
21Transaction Summary
22===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
23Install 1 Package(s)
24Update 0 Package(s)
25Remove 0 Package(s)
26
27Total download size: 166 k
28Is this ok [y/N]: y
29Downloading Packages:
30procmail-3.22-17.1.el5.centos.i386.rpm | 166 kB 00:00
31Running rpm_check_debug
32Running Transaction Test
33Finished Transaction Test
34Transaction Test Succeeded
35Running Transaction
36 Installing : procmail 1/1
37
38Installed:
39 procmail.i386 0:3.22-17.1.el5.centos
40
41Complete!

Now lets start the services again:

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1# /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start
2Stopping Systems Management Data Engine:
3Stopping dsm_sa_snmpd: [ OK ]
4Stopping dsm_sa_eventmgrd: [ OK ]
5Stopping dsm_sa_datamgrd: [ OK ]
6Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
7Starting dell_rbu: Already started [ OK ]
8Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
9Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
10Starting dell_rbu: Already started [ OK ]
11Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
12Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
13Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd: [ OK ]
14Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd: [ OK ]
15Starting dsm_sa_snmpd: [ OK ]
16Stopping Systems Management Data Engine:
17Stopping dsm_sa_snmpd: [ OK ]
18Stopping dsm_sa_eventmgrd: [ OK ]
19Stopping dsm_sa_datamgrd: [ OK ]
20Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
21Starting dell_rbu: Already started [ OK ]
22Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
23Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
24Starting dell_rbu: Already started [ OK ]
25Starting ipmi driver: [ OK ]
26Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
27Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd: [ OK ]
28Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd: [ OK ]
29Starting dsm_sa_snmpd: [ OK ]
30Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
31Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd: Already started [ OK ]
32Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd: Already started [ OK ]
33Starting dsm_sa_snmpd: Already started [ OK ]
34DSM SA Shared Services is already started
35DSM SA Connection Service is already started

Now we follow the Dell IT Assistant User's Guide to set up the SNMP alerts. For this guide, I will assume that you already have a working Dell ITA installation. Following the instructions on page 252 of the PDF:

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1# vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

You should see the following file:

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1###############################################################################
2# Access Control
3###############################################################################
4
5# As shipped, the snmpd demon will only respond to queries on the
6# system mib group until this file is replaced or modified for
7# security purposes.
8
9####
10# First, map the community name "public" into a "security name"
11
12# sec.name source community
13com2sec notConfigUser default public
14
15####
16# Second, map the security name into a group name:
17
18# groupName securityModel securityName
19group notConfigGroup v1 notConfigUser
20group notConfigGroup v2c notConfigUser
21
22####
23# Third, create a view for us to let the group have rights to:
24
25# name incl/excl subtree mask(optional)
26view systemview included system
27view systemview included interfaces
28view systemview included at
29view systemview included ip
30view systemview included icmp
31view systemview included tcp
32view systemview included udp
33view systemview included snmp
34
35####
36# XenServer control domain does not support IPv6.
37#
38view systemview excluded ipv6InterfaceTableLastChange
39view systemview excluded icmpStatsInErrors.ipv6
40view systemview excluded icmpStatsInMsgs.ipv6
41view systemview excluded icmpStatsOutErrors.ipv6
42view systemview excluded icmpStatsOutMsgs.ipv6
43view systemview excluded icmpMsgStatsInPkts.ipv6
44view systemview excluded icmpMsgStatsOutPkts.ipv6
45
46####
47# Finally, grant the group read-only access to the systemview view.
48
49# group context sec.model sec.level prefix read write notif
50access notConfigGroup "" any noauth exact systemview none none
51
52
53###############################################################################
54# System contact information
55#
56
57syslocation Unknown (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)
58syscontact Root <root@localhost> (edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf)

First we follow step one and add a community name. Community name is like a password. Lets use a random password generator to create one:

Change the line that says:

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1# sec.name source community
2com2sec notConfigUser default public

to something like this

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1# sec.name source community
2com2sec notConfigUser default 6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@

At the end of the file add

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1trapsink 192.168.1.88 6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@

Now we enable the SNMPd service and start it

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1# chkconfig snmpd on
2# service snmpd start
3Starting snmpd: [ OK ]

Replace 192.168.1.88 with the IP address of your Dell ITA Server and 6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@ with the community string you set up earlier.

Now we will are going to follow Citrix KB Article CTX122337 to add the proper firewall rules.

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1# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

You should see something like the following:

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1# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
2# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
3*filter
4:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
5:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
6:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
7:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
8-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
9-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
10-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
11-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
12-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
13-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
14-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
15-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
16-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
17-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
18-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 694 -j ACCEPT
19-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
20-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
21-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
22-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
23COMMIT

Add the following right after "-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT". Unlike the XenServer document, dell ITA requires port 162 to be open in addition to 161. It also needs port 1311 open if you are have install System Administrator.

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1-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 161 -j ACCEPT
2-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 162 -j ACCEPT
3-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1311 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT

The whole file should now look like:

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1# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
2# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
3*filter
4:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
5:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
6:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
7:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
8-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
9-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
10-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
11-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
12-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
13-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
14-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
15-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 161 -j ACCEPT
16-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 162 -j ACCEPT
17-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1311 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT
18-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
19-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
20-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
21-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 694 -j ACCEPT
22-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
23-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
24-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
25-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
26COMMIT

Now we refresh the firewall rules:

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1# service iptables restart
2Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
3Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]
4Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]
5Applying iptables firewall rules: [ OK ]

Now log into Dell ITA server and test the connectivity. Go to Tools->Troubleshooting tool and put in the IP Address (or Host Name) of your Xen Server and click "Get Text Configuration". Now select SNMP Connectivity and click "Configure". Put in "6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@" for the Get Community and keep the Set Community blank and click "OK". Now click "Run Selected Test(s)". You should see something like the following:

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1Result of SNMP Connectivity test
2
3IP Address Used :
4192.168.1.188
5Result :
6 Connected using the Get Community Names - 6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@
7
8 Connected to the agent software(s) - [mib2, NA]
9Time of Execution :
10Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:51:03 PM EDT

Now lets add the IP of this server to the ranges (if it's not already covered by an existing range). Click on "Discovery and Monitoring->Ranges". If the range is not already covered, right click on "Include Ranges" and then select "New Include Range". Put in the IP address of your Xen server and "255.255.255.255" for the subnet mask, if you just want to add just the specific IP of this server. Click "Next", and then again click "Next" and put in "6bs2m9j-ZwUvdq?x@HyFq2Fapt!CUQX@" or the community string you set up earlier under "Get Community". Click "Next" a bunch of times until you get to step 7 and then change the option to "Perform both Discovery and Inventory". Click "Next" and "Finish".

Now right click on the IP that we've just added under the "Include Ranges" and click "Perform Discovery and Inventory Now". Pick the "View Progress" from the dialog box that pops up. Once you see that the current task is 100% complete, click on "View->View Devices" and the server should show up under "Servers".

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XenServer 5.6 - Converting Local Storage to ext3 (and thereby enabling sparse provisioning)

Posted At : June 10, 2010 11:29 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

Since XenServer 5.6 has some sort of bug which won't let it boot when you have linux raid partition, and I haven't found a way around it, I'm going to make this short and sweet. We will just delete the existing LVM SR and recreate it as ext3. This will allow us to do sparse provisioning.

First we will need to delete the current Local Storage, which involves quite a few steps.

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1# xe pbd-list
2uuid ( RO) : 4960a8ab-d46f-270c-645d-c697263972c4
3 host-uuid ( RO): d805a419-6dab-437a-ab3c-abba07209574
4 sr-uuid ( RO): e768c14b-e452-78fa-4fc6-7b2bbafd3fd4
5 device-config (MRO): location: /opt/xensource/packages/iso; legacy_mode: true
6 currently-attached ( RO): true
7
8
9uuid ( RO) : a71c0a52-4d5a-fb22-01f7-63924ce0066f
10 host-uuid ( RO): d805a419-6dab-437a-ab3c-abba07209574
11 sr-uuid ( RO): 01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0
12 device-config (MRO): device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600137206653cb001394e1bf5e3adfc5-part3
13 currently-attached ( RO): true
14
15
16uuid ( RO) : c00deda7-a064-903e-19cc-657a16eb1a1a
17 host-uuid ( RO): d805a419-6dab-437a-ab3c-abba07209574
18 sr-uuid ( RO): cf8f5d45-2c85-e4c4-49bf-c6dab40a1e29
19 device-config (MRO): location: /dev/xapi/block
20 currently-attached ( RO): true
21
22
23uuid ( RO) : e2e20fa4-0d5b-acf9-2f22-5d3a3cd89593
24 host-uuid ( RO): d805a419-6dab-437a-ab3c-abba07209574
25 sr-uuid ( RO): 9cb77bf4-1ccf-53bb-0a8b-ddc8ec9c3ee4
26 device-config (MRO): location: /dev/xapi/cd
27 currently-attached ( RO): true

As you can see it's the second one on the list (the one that start with /dev/disk/by-id). Now we unplug it and destroy it.

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1# xe pbd-unplug uuid=a71c0a52-4d5a-fb22-01f7-63924ce0066f
2# xe pbd-destroy uuid=a71c0a52-4d5a-fb22-01f7-63924ce0066f

Now lets destroy the storage repository attached to it. First we get a list of the repositories.

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1# xe sr-list
2# xe sr-list
3uuid ( RO) : 01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0
4 name-label ( RW): Local storage
5 name-description ( RW):
6 host ( RO): <not in database>
7 type ( RO): lvm
8 content-type ( RO): user
9
10
11uuid ( RO) : 9cb77bf4-1ccf-53bb-0a8b-ddc8ec9c3ee4
12 name-label ( RW): DVD drives
13 name-description ( RW): Physical DVD drives
14 host ( RO): xen2
15 type ( RO): udev
16 content-type ( RO): iso
17
18
19uuid ( RO) : cf8f5d45-2c85-e4c4-49bf-c6dab40a1e29
20 name-label ( RW): Removable storage
21 name-description ( RW):
22 host ( RO): xen2
23 type ( RO): udev
24 content-type ( RO): disk
25
26
27uuid ( RO) : e768c14b-e452-78fa-4fc6-7b2bbafd3fd4
28 name-label ( RW): XenServer Tools
29 name-description ( RW): XenServer Tools ISOs
30 host ( RO): xen2
31 type ( RO): iso
32 content-type ( RO): iso

We will delete the one called local storage.

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1# xe sr-forget uuid=01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0

At this point it will be forgotten and disappear from XenCenter.

Now, lets delete it from LVM.

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1# vgdisplay
2 --- Volume group ---
3 VG Name VG_XenStorage-01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0
4 System ID
5 Format lvm2
6 Metadata Areas 1
7 Metadata Sequence No 3
8 VG Access read/write
9 VG Status resizable
10 MAX LV 0
11 Cur LV 1
12 Open LV 0
13 Max PV 0
14 Cur PV 1
15 Act PV 1
16 VG Size 1.81 TB
17 PE Size 4.00 MB
18 Total PE 474747
19 Alloc PE / Size 1 / 4.00 MB
20 Free PE / Size 474746 / 1.81 TB
21 VG UUID sR7JWl-k6sF-QU0Z-2Tkh-XNX5-mfuE-Pr7uKF

Now lets remove it.

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1# vgremove VG_XenStorage-01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0
2Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_XenStorage-01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
3 Logical volume "MGT" successfully removed
4 Volume group "VG_XenStorage-01655c83-5668-c05b-7031-c33c032d7af0" successfully removed

Now we remove the physical volume.

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1# pvdisplay
2 "/dev/sda3" is a new physical volume of "1.81 TB"
3 --- NEW Physical volume ---
4 PV Name /dev/sda3
5 VG Name
6 PV Size 1.81 TB
7 Allocatable NO
8 PE Size (KByte) 0
9 Total PE 0
10 Free PE 0
11 Allocated PE 0
12 PV UUID 3KA4t0-rX04-0aa9-mP6c-EkOr-rPmg-BiGncU

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1# pvremove /dev/sda3
2 Labels on physical volume "/dev/sda3" successfully wiped

Now we change the partition type to Linux.

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Now we reboot to make sure that the kernel picks up our changes.

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1#reboot

Now lets add it to XenServer.

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1# xe sr-create host-uuid=d805a419-6dab-437a-ab3c-abba07209574 content-type=user name-label="Local SR" shared=false device-config:device=/dev/sda3 type=ext
2fece93d6-503e-991c-2076-ac4e148f8630

Now we reboot and everything should come up fine.

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XenServer 5.5 - Converting Local Storage to ext3 (and thereby enabling sparse provisioning)

Posted At : March 29, 2010 8:07 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

After I wrote my earlier post about setting up local NFS and enabling sparse provisioning, I was having some performance issues with NFS. It turns out that you can still have sparse provisioning with local storage when it's set up as ext, instead of lvm.

XenServer will create sparse disks for your VMs only on NFS based volumes or locally formatted ext volumes. If you are using ISCSI or lvm based local storage, it will fully allocate each disk. This is less of a problem when you have a thinly provisioned ISCSI volume which is also compressed (such as those provided by Nexenta/OpenSolaris), but when you have a limited amount of local storage, it's unfortunate that XenServer doesn't give you the option to create sparse disks out of the box.

Luckily, we can convert the storage to ext3 and enable thin provisioning.

First we will need to delete the current Local Storage, which involves quite a few steps.

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1#lvdisplay
2 --- Logical volume ---
3 LV Name /dev/VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2/MGT
4 VG Name VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2
5 LV UUID HlifV3-7B6J-rVCp-pAxP-Rc7e-viEQ-Tt819a
6 LV Write Access read/write
7 LV Status NOT available
8 LV Size 4.00 MB
9 Current LE 1
10 Segments 1
11 Allocation inherit
12 Read ahead sectors auto

Now we run xe pbd-list and find the one that matches our local SR.

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1#xe pbd-list
2uuid ( RO) : e06a37a5-e1e6-4415-134e-f5ae4f7f7c17
3 host-uuid ( RO): 99ae2c2e-b992-4b4d-a09d-15cba5483225
4 sr-uuid ( RO): fc8c8fc5-4a06-18b9-517d-f19a18e50820
5 device-config (MRO): location: /dev/xapi/cd
6 currently-attached ( RO): true
7
8
9uuid ( RO) : 7a75d1b9-9aa5-d5f7-6b85-50d1175054c8
10 host-uuid ( RO): 99ae2c2e-b992-4b4d-a09d-15cba5483225
11 sr-uuid ( RO): a6db482a-5446-3fc3-6513-6933eb9d7915
12 device-config (MRO): location: /dev/xapi/block
13 currently-attached ( RO): true
14
15
16uuid ( RO) : 6c1eeeb0-3c05-fbee-4dca-e7490e007504
17 host-uuid ( RO): 99ae2c2e-b992-4b4d-a09d-15cba5483225
18 sr-uuid ( RO): f663b0ec-56b0-72dc-d546-4e0fc9be7ef6
19 device-config (MRO): location: /opt/xensource/packages/iso; legacy_mode: true
20 currently-attached ( RO): true
21uuid ( RO) : 825bc0eb-8ec9-01ab-e249-21146d66dd9a
22 host-uuid ( RO): 99ae2c2e-b992-4b4d-a09d-15cba5483225
23 sr-uuid ( RO): 877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2
24 device-config (MRO): device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JD-75M_WD-WMAM9AJ38489-part3
25 currently-attached ( RO): true

As we can see, it's the last one. Now we unplug it and destroy it.

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1#xe pbd-unplug uuid=825bc0eb-8ec9-01ab-e249-21146d66dd9a
2#xe pbd-destroy uuid=825bc0eb-8ec9-01ab-e249-21146d66dd9a

Now lets destroy the storage repository attached to it. First we get a list of the repositories.

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1#xe sr-list
2uuid ( RO) : a6db482a-5446-3fc3-6513-6933eb9d7915
3 name-label ( RW): Removable storage
4 name-description ( RW):
5 host ( RO): xenserver-ueyqfddq
6 type ( RO): udev
7 content-type ( RO): disk
8
9
10uuid ( RO) : fc8c8fc5-4a06-18b9-517d-f19a18e50820
11 name-label ( RW): DVD drives
12 name-description ( RW): Physical DVD drives
13 host ( RO): xenserver-ueyqfddq
14 type ( RO): udev
15 content-type ( RO): iso
16
17
18uuid ( RO) : 877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2
19 name-label ( RW): Local storage
20 name-description ( RW):
21 host ( RO): <not in database>
22 type ( RO): lvm
23 content-type ( RO): user
24
25
26uuid ( RO) : f663b0ec-56b0-72dc-d546-4e0fc9be7ef6
27 name-label ( RW): XenServer Tools
28 name-description ( RW): XenServer Tools ISOs
29 host ( RO): xenserver-ueyqfddq
30 type ( RO): iso
31 content-type ( RO): iso

We will delete the one called local storage.

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1#xe sr-forget uuid=877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2

At this point it will be forgotten and disappear from XenCenter.

Now, lets delete it from LVM.

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1#vgdisplay
2 --- Volume group ---
3 VG Name VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2
4 System ID
5 Format lvm2
6 Metadata Areas 1
7 Metadata Sequence No 3
8 VG Access read/write
9 VG Status resizable
10 MAX LV 0
11 Cur LV 1
12 Open LV 0
13 Max PV 0
14 Cur PV 1
15 Act PV 1
16 VG Size 66.85 GB
17 PE Size 4.00 MB
18 Total PE 17113
19 Alloc PE / Size 1 / 4.00 MB
20 Free PE / Size 17112 / 66.84 GB
21 VG UUID 2PJJkR-ULpa-1F6f-8H65-N22A-o11C-f0KkGa

Now lets remove it.

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1#vgremove VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2
2Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
3 Logical volume "MGT" successfully removed
4 Volume group "VG_XenStorage-877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2" successfully removed

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1#pvdisplay
2 "/dev/sda3" is a new physical volume of "66.86 GB"
3 --- NEW Physical volume ---
4 PV Name /dev/sda3
5 VG Name
6 PV Size 66.86 GB
7 Allocatable NO
8 PE Size (KByte) 0
9 Total PE 0
10 Free PE 0
11 Allocated PE 0
12 PV UUID ZK23c0-UvDg-A4MB-TWKi-YfNW-hWUK-uoyqdo

Now we remove the physical volume from LVM.

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1#pvremove /dev/sda3
2 Labels on physical volume "/dev/sda3" successfully wiped

The instructions that follow use a different system, and a different hard disk.

I am using a 2TB disk and will create 2 888GB partitions for local storage and one 200GB for ISOs.

Since XenServer will only allow a single SR on a drive, we'll need to create a fake raid array on the second data partition. To this end we need to change the type of the partition to "Linux raid autodetect", so that it's automounted on boot.

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1# fdisk /dev/sda
2
3The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 243133.
4There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
5and could in certain setups cause problems with:
61) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
72) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
8 (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
9
10Command (m for help): m
11Command action
12 a toggle a bootable flag
13 b edit bsd disklabel
14 c toggle the dos compatibility flag
15 d delete a partition
16 l list known partition types
17 m print this menu
18 n add a new partition
19 o create a new empty DOS partition table
20 p print the partition table
21 q quit without saving changes
22 s create a new empty Sun disklabel
23 t change a partition's system id
24 u change display/entry units
25 v verify the partition table
26 w write table to disk and exit
27 x extra functionality (experts only)
28
29Command (m for help): p
30
31Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
32255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
33Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
34
35 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
36/dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
37/dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
38/dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 83 Linux
39
40Command (m for help): d
41Partition number (1-4): 3
42
43Command (m for help): p
44
45Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
46255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
47Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
48
49 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
50/dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
51/dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
52
53Command (m for help): n
54Command action
55 e extended
56 p primary partition (1-4)
57e
58Partition number (1-4): 3
59First cylinder (999-243133, default 999):
60Using default value 999
61Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (999-243133, default 243133):
62Using default value 243133
63
64Command (m for help): p
65
66Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
67255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
68Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
69
70 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
71/dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
72/dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
73/dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 5 Extended
74
75Command (m for help): n
76Command action
77 l logical (5 or over)
78 p primary partition (1-4)
79l
80First cylinder (999-243133, default 999):
81Using default value 999
82Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (999-243133, default 243133): +888G
83
84Command (m for help): n
85Command action
86 l logical (5 or over)
87 p primary partition (1-4)
88l
89First cylinder (108960-243133, default 108960):
90Using default value 108960
91Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (108960-243133, default 243133): 888G
92Value out of range.
93Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (108960-243133, default 243133): +888G
94
95Command (m for help): n
96Command action
97 l logical (5 or over)
98 p primary partition (1-4)
99l
100First cylinder (216921-243133, default 216921):
101Using default value 216921
102Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (216921-243133, default 243133):
103Using default value 243133
104
105Command (m for help): p
106
107Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
108255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
109Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
110
111 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
112/dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
113/dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
114/dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 5 Extended
115/dev/sda5 999 108959 867196701 83 Linux
116/dev/sda6 108960 216920 867196701 83 Linux
117/dev/sda7 216921 243133 210555891 83 Linux
118
119Command (m for help): t
120Partition number (1-7): 6
121Hex code (type L to list codes): fd
122Changed system type of partition 6 to fd (Linux raid autodetect)
123
124Command (m for help): p
125
126Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
127255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
128Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
129
130 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
131/dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
132/dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
133/dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 5 Extended
134/dev/sda5 999 108959 867196701 83 Linux
135/dev/sda6 108960 216920 867196701 fd Linux raid autodetect
136/dev/sda7 216921 243133 210555891 83 Linux
137
138Command (m for help): w
139The partition table has been altered!
140
141Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
142
143WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
144The kernel still uses the old table.
145The new table will be used at the next reboot.
146Syncing disks.

At this point I had to reboot the server because of the warning above. You may or may not get this warning and need to reboot before proceeding.

First lets set up our ISO repository.

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1# mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sda7
2mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
3Filesystem label=
4OS type: Linux
5Block size=4096 (log=2)
6Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
726329088 inodes, 52638972 blocks
80 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
9First data block=0
10Maximum filesystem blocks=0
111607 block groups
1232768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
1316384 inodes per group
14Superblock backups stored on blocks:
15 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
16 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
17
18Writing inode tables: done
19Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
20Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
21
22This filesystem will be automatically checked every 36 mounts or
23180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

Now lets set up a folder for it and make sure it gets mounted at boot time.

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1#mkdir /data

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1#vi /etc/fstab
2LABEL=root-cjfffcbq /ext3 defaults 1 1
3/var/swap/swap.001swap swap defaults 0 0
4none/dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
5none/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
6none/proc proc defaults 0 0
7none/sys sysfs defaults 0 0

We need to add our directory to automatically mount at boot time. Lets add this entry

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1/dev/sda7 /data ext3 defaults 1 2

This is how my file looked like at the end.

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1/ext3 defaults 1 1
2/var/swap/swap.001swap swap defaults 0 0
3none/dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
4none/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
5none/proc proc defaults 0 0
6none/sys sysfs defaults 0 0
7/dev/sda7 /data ext3 defaults 1 2

Now lets try mounting it.

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1#mount /data

If you get no output, that means it probably worked.

Lets check that it mounted successfully.

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1#ls /data
2lost+found

Now lets create our directory that we will export.

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1#mkdir /data/iso

Lets edit the exports file.

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1#vi /etc/exports

The file should initially be empty. Lets add our entries.

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1/data/iso 127.0.0.1(ro,no_root_squash,sync)

Save the file, and now lets start the nfs and portmap services.

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1#service nfs start
2Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
3Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]
4Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]
5#service portmap start
6Starting portmap: [ OK ]

Lets make sure that the portmap and nfs services start at boot.

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1#chkconfig --level 345 nfs on
2#chkconfig --level 345 portmap on

Lets verify that our directory is being exported.

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1#exportfs
2/data/iso 127.0.0.1

Lets add an ISO SR as well. Right click on the server in XenCenter, and click "New Storage Repository". Select "NFS ISO" as the type, and enter the following parameters.

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1Name: NFS Local ISO library
2Share Name: 127.0.0.1:/data/iso
3Click "Finish".

Now we will create the actual Storage Repositories to keep our VMs. I have decided to split mine in two as a way to short stroke the disk - I will try to use mostly the first SR, and maybe put in VMs that are not used often into the second SR, as the first SR should have slightly faster speed and better average seek time. You may choose to only have a single SR, so you'll need to modify your fdisk config earlier.

~~First we create our ext3 filesystems.~~

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1# mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sda5
2mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
3Filesystem label=
4OS type: Linux
5Block size=4096 (log=2)
6Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
7108412928 inodes, 216799175 blocks
80 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
9First data block=0
10Maximum filesystem blocks=0
116617 block groups
1232768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
1316384 inodes per group
14Superblock backups stored on blocks:
15 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
16 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
17 102400000, 214990848
18
19Writing inode tables: done
20Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
21Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
22
23This filesystem will be automatically checked every 22 mounts or
24180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

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1# mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sda6
2mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
3Filesystem label=
4OS type: Linux
5Block size=4096 (log=2)
6Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
7108412928 inodes, 216799175 blocks
80 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
9First data block=0
10Maximum filesystem blocks=0
116617 block groups
1232768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
1316384 inodes per group
14Superblock backups stored on blocks:
15 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
16 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
17 102400000, 214990848
18
19Writing inode tables: done
20Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
21Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
22
23This filesystem will be automatically checked every 30 mounts or
24180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

Update (6/8/2010): Turns out it's not necessary to make the ext3 partitions yourself, as XenServer does it for you.
Now we will create the storage repositories on these ext partitions. As I mentioned earlier, we need to create a fake raid on top of the second partition, otherwise XenServer won't us use it.

Update (6/10/2010): Looks like XenServer 5.6 has some sort of bug which prevents it from booting with any partitions set to type "fd". If you are using 5.6 - DO NOT CREATE an md device. Instead just partition it so that there is only a single data device.

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1# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=1 /dev/sda6 --force
2mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.

Now lets set up our Storage Repositories. This will take several minutes (about 15 minutes for me for a 1TB repo), so don't panic if you don't see any progress for a while.

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1# xe sr-create host-uuid=999847a4-d895-4e30-a703-1a20f9930cfd content-type=user name-label="Local SR1" shared=false device-config:device=/dev/sda5 type=ext
20414bfc6-bad9-81ed-ead9-9d3c42f19b61

Now we set up a Storage Repository on top of the fake array.

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1#xe sr-create host-uuid=999847a4-d895-4e30-a703-1a20f9930cfd content-type=user name-label="Local SR2" shared=false device-config:device=/dev/md0 type=ext
2037fb965-61c5-1345-4d73-b7f9736133ad

Now we reboot and if everything comes back up, we are done. Now when we create VMs, the Virtual Hard Disks will be allocated sparsely, and VMs created from templates, will all use the same base VHD and only store the changes in their own disk.

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XenServer 5.5 - Converting Local Storage to NFS (and thereby enabling sparse provisioning)

Posted At : July 30, 2009 11:24 AM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

XenServer will create sparse disks for your VMs only on NFS based volumes. If you are using ISCSI or local storage, it will fully allocate each disk. This is less of a problem when you have a thinly provisioned ISCSI volume which is also compressed (such as those provided by Nexenta/OpenSolaris), but when you have a limited amount of local storage, it's unfortunate that XenServer doesn't give you the option to create sparse disks.

Luckily, XenServer is just CentOS 5 under the hood, and we can turn the local storage into an NFS volume.

First we will need to delete the current Local Storage, which involves quite a few steps.

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Now we run xe pbd-list and find the one that matches our local SR.

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As we can see, it's the last one. Now we unplug it and destroy it.

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1#xe pbd-unplug uuid=825bc0eb-8ec9-01ab-e249-21146d66dd9a
2#xe pbd-destroy uuid=825bc0eb-8ec9-01ab-e249-21146d66dd9a

Now lets destroy the storage repository attached to it. First we get a list of the repositories.

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We will delete the one called local storage.

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1#xe sr-forget uuid=877a1f66-59dd-b1ba-0de3-d8a753d0a0b2

At this point it will be forgotten and disappear from XenCenter.

Now, lets delete it from LVM.

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Now lets remove it.

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Now we remove the physical volume from LVM.

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1#pvremove /dev/sda3
2 Labels on physical volume "/dev/sda3" successfully wiped

Now lets create a filesystem for us to use.

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1mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sda3
2mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
3Filesystem label=
4OS type: Linux
5Block size=4096 (log=2)
6Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
78765440 inodes, 17526915 blocks
80 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
9First data block=0
10Maximum filesystem blocks=0
11535 block groups
1232768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
1316384 inodes per group
14Superblock backups stored on blocks:
1532768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
164096000, 7962624, 11239424
17
18Writing inode tables: done
19Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
20Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
21
22This filesystem will be automatically checked every 33 mounts or
23180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

Now lets set up a folder for it and make sure it gets mounted at boot time.

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1#mkdir /data

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We need to add our directory to automatically mount at boot time. Lets add this entry

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1/dev/sda3 /data ext3 defaults 1 2

This is how my file looked like at the end.

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Now lets try mounting it.

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1#mount /data

If you get no output, that means it probably worked.

Lets check that it mounted successfully.

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1#ls /data
2lost+found

Now lets create our directories that we will export.

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1#mkdir /data/vm
2#mkdir /data/iso

Lets edit the exports file.

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1#vi /etc/exports

The file should initially be empty. Lets add our entries.

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1/data/vm 127.0.0.1(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
2/data/iso 127.0.0.1(ro,no_root_squash,sync)

Save the file, and now lets start the nfs and portmap services.

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1#service nfs start
2Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
3Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]
4Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]
5#service portmap start
6Starting portmap: [ OK ]

Lets make sure that the portmap and nfs services start at boot.

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1#chkconfig --level 345 nfs on
2#chkconfig --level 345 portmap on

Lets verify that our directories are being exported.

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1#exportfs
2/data/iso 127.0.0.1
3/data/vm 127.0.0.1

Now we can add the Storage Repository. We can do it through XenCenter. Right click on the server in XenCenter, and click "New Storage Repository". Select "NFS VHD" as the type, and enter the following parameters.

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1Name: NFS Local Storage
2Share Name: 127.0.0.1:/data/vm
3Leave the checkbox on "Create a New SR" and click "Finish".

Lets add an ISO SR as well. Right click on the server in XenCenter, and click "New Storage Repository". Select "NFS ISO" as the type, and enter the following parameters.

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1Name: NFS Local Storage
2Share Name: 127.0.0.1:/data/iso
3Leave the checkbox on "Create a New SR" and click "Finish".

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Jumbo Frames with XenServer 5.5

Posted At : July 29, 2009 11:37 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

There doesn't seem to be any way to configure jumbo frames with XenServer 5.5, and I'm sure this is unsupported, but it can be done by hacking the XenServer 5.5 config files.

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1#vi /opt/xensource/libexec/interface-reconfigure +879

You will see something like this

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1f.write('"\n')
2 return f

We are going to add our MTU information there:

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1f.write('"\n')
2 #add MTU
3 f.write('MTU=9212\n');
4 return f

9212 is the MTU I chose, make sure you choose one that's appropriate for your network, and make sure to test it first.

This will only change the MTU on the bonded interfaces, I believe.

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CentOS 5.3 on XenServer 5.5 Graphical Install

Posted At : July 15, 2009 10:45 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: Virtualization, XenServer, CentOS

In order to do a graphical install (which lets you customize your LVM volumes) you just need to add the vnc option to the "OS Boot Parameters" when creating the VM. It should look like this:

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1graphical utf8 vnc

Once you start up your VM, it will go through a short text based configuration wizard, configuring your NIC and such, after which it will prompt you to log in using VNC.

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LACP with XenServer 5.5

Posted At : July 10, 2009 8:27 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: XenServer

In order to make XenServer 5.5 work with LACP, we need to modify the start up scripts

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1#vi /opt/xensource/libexec/interface-reconfigure +863

We will see the following:

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1# The bond option defaults
2 bond_options = {
3 "mode": "balance-slb",
4 "miimon": "100",
5 "downdelay": "200",
6 "updelay": "31000",
7 "use_carrier": "1",
8 }

We will change the mode from "balance-slb" to "802.3ad"

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1# The bond option defaults
2 bond_options = {
3 "mode": "802.3ad",
4 "miimon": "100",
5 "downdelay": "200",
6 "updelay": "31000",
7 "use_carrier": "1",
8 }

Don't forget to configure your switch for LACP.

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Detect new network cards on XenServer 5

Posted At : April 1, 2009 8:20 PM | Posted By : Ruslan Sivak
Related Categories: Xen, XenServer

I installed XenServer 5, and then added some gigabit NICs, but the server wasn't seeing them. Turned out I needed to do the following from the server console:

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1#xe host-list
2uuid ( RO) : 9ec3de63-30fe-4575-b972-1234ed235345
3 name-label ( RW): xenserver-lfiuljac
4 name-description ( RO): Default install of XenServer
5#
6xe pif-scan host-uuid=9ec3de63-30fe-4575-b972-1234ed235345

This made the NICs show up in XenCenter.

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