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CentOS 6.4 Mellanox 10GB Driver Install on the Open Compute Windmill V3 server
Our build out of the Open Compute Windmill V3 server utilizes the Mellanox MCX342A XCAN 10GbE, 2-p SFP+ mezzanine card. By default, the Mellanox card is not natively supported by CentOS 6.4. [root@server /]# lspci | grep Mellanox 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] That being said, I had to download the appropriate driver from […]
Tags: cloud, Facebook Server, Facebook Servers, OCP, Open Compute, opencompute, virtualization
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Configuring the Open Compute Open Vault 2U Knox Unit JBOD storage array
The Wiwynn ST7110-30A is a 30 drive SAS/SATA JBOD storage array designed around the Open Compute (OCP) platform. Known as the “Knox Unit” or “Knox Device”, it is manufactured by Wiwynn. The unit is field serviceable, completely tool-less, entirely redundant, and quite easy to manage and configure. See the entire feature breakdown here. Device Information Highlights […]
Tags: cloud computing, Facebook Servers, Facebook Storage, OCP, Open Compute, Open Vault
Posted in Linux, Open Compute, OpenCompute, Virtualization, vmware | 1 Comment »
OpenCompute Winterfell RHEL/CentOS PXE boot over serial console
The main issue with installing OS’s on these Winterfell servers is the complete lack of video card :) Your only option is serial console using the USB > Serial header adapter. So the task is to install RedHat or CentOS (or other RHEL style OS’s) via PXE, with serial console only access. To do this, […]
Tags: linux, OCP, opencompute, pxe, Winterfell
Posted in KVM, Linux, Open Stack, OpenCompute, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
Installing ESXi over serial console (headless, no video card)
I ran into a unique scenario where I had a server to install ESXi on that had no video card (maybe open compute style?). That being said, I figured that PXE installation would be the easiest method. First lets look at the PXE installation method of installing ESXi… Server boots, grabs DHCP address then downloads […]
Tags: esxi, opencompute, pxe, quanta, windmill
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