[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8

[Jarrad Piper]

An update to the status of the HP Microserver Gen8. The latest stable of
OmniOS now supports the NIC's so all looks good for the next release of OI.
On the KVM front it's worse I'm afraid. Creating and deleting VNIC's causes
the NIC to fail with "bge0: bge_chip_poll_engine failed". Another issue is
when you are using a shared NIC for ILO. The LOM dies after the OS comes up
so I have had to use the dedicated ILO port. In other news it has been
confirmed that you can put a Xeon into these boxes without issue.
http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserver/

Cheers,

Jarrad.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On 25 Jul 2013, at 02:57, Jarrad Piper <jarrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just received my Gen8 Microserver (G2020 model). Unfortunately the
> > NIC's are not detected in OI's installer. It looks like it uses a
> Broadcom
> > 5720 chip which is not supported. I have tried to use the latest Broadcom
> > drivers for Solaris 11 but the NIC's are still not detected. For now I
> have
> > popped in an older Broadcom Dual Port NIC. Also of note is that KVM
> freezes
> > when booting a VM with this CPU (even with the suggested fix in the OI
> KVM
> > Wiki).
>
> I'm interested in one of these boxes as a fileserver/KVM host as well.
> Keep us updated if you make any progress! :-)
>
> I don't know how recent OI's kernel and drivers are, but there are
> suggestions in the Illumos sources that the 5720 is supported.
>
> The Illumos issue tracker's kind of unclear about this though.
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3056
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/390 (which references
> https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/6ab6198a2608e8eaad25952200629bdcea12eb51
> )
>
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3812
>
> Try an Illumos kernel/driver containing the above change. Using a current
> OmniOS or SmartOS build instead of OI might be necessary.
>
> Chris
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