zfs discuss - Jun 2010 - NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

Hi All,

On behalf of NexentaStor team, I''m happy to announce the release of
NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the
community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users.

Changes over 3.0.2 include
* Many fixes to ON/ZFS backported to b134.
* Multiple bug fixes in the appliance.

With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the *most
complete*, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today.

Quick Summary of Features
-----------------------------
* ZFS additions: Deduplication (based on OpenSolaris b134).
* Free for upto 12 TB of *used* storage
* Community edition supports easy upgrades
* Many new features in the easy to use management interface.
* Integrated search

Grab the iso from
http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/CommunityEdition

If you are a storage solution provider, we invite you to join our
growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com.

--
Thanks
Anil Gulecha
Community Leader
http://www.nexentastor.org

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57:53PM +0530, Anil Gulecha
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On behalf of NexentaStor team, I''m happy to announce the release
of
> NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the
> community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users.
> 
> Changes over 3.0.2 include
> * Many fixes to ON/ZFS backported to b134.
> * Multiple bug fixes in the appliance.
> 
> With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the *most
> complete*, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today.
> 
> Quick Summary of Features
> -----------------------------
> * ZFS additions: Deduplication (based on OpenSolaris b134).
> * Free for upto 12 TB of *used* storage
> * Community edition supports easy upgrades
> * Many new features in the easy to use management interface.
> * Integrated search
> 
> Grab the iso from
> http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/CommunityEdition
> 
> If you are a storage solution provider, we invite you to join our
> growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com.
> 
Hey,

I tried installing Nexenta 3.0.3 on an old HP DL380G4 server,
and it installed ok, but it crashes all the time.. 

basicly 5-30 seconds after login prompt shows up on the console
the server will reboot due to kernel crash.

the error seems to be about the broadcom nic driver..
Is this a known bug? 

See the screenshots for the kernel error message:

http://pasik.reaktio.net/nexenta/nexenta303-crash02.jpg
http://pasik.reaktio.net/nexenta/nexenta303-crash01.jpg

-- Pasi

On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:39, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> basicly 5-30 seconds after login prompt shows up on the console
> the server will reboot due to kernel crash.
>
> the error seems to be about the broadcom nic driver..
> Is this a known bug?
Please contact Nexenta via their support infrastructure (web site,  
forums, lists?):

	http://www.nexentastor.org/
	http://www.nexenta.com/corp/support

Using ZFS- and OpenSolaris-specific lists isn''t appropriate.

Hello,

this may not apply to your machine.  I have two changes to your setup:
* Opensolaris instead of Nexenta
* DL585G1 instead of your DL380G4

Here''s my problem: reproducible crash after a certain time (1:30h in my
case).

Explanation: the HP machine has enterprise features (ECC RAM) and performs
scrubbing of the RAM, just as you could scrub ZFS disks; with the 4 AMD dual
core CPUs, the memory is divided into 4 chunks and when the scrubber hits a
hole, then the machine crashes without so much as a crashdump

Solution: add the following to /etc/system

set snooping=1
set pcplusmp:apic_panic_on_nmi=1
set cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD.15:ao_scrub_policy = 1
set cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD.15:ao_scrub_rate_dcache = 0
set cpu_ms.AuthenticAMD.15:ao_scrub_rate_l2cache = 0 
set mc-amd:mc_no_attach=1
set disable_memscrub = 1


Best regards,

Oliver
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