Re: [ovirt-users] problems with power management using idrac7 on r620

CCing Marek Grac ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Keltz" <jason.keltz(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Cc: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:08:35 PM > Subject: problems with power management using idrac7 on r620 > > Hi. > > I've been having problem with power management using iDRAC 7 EXPRESS on > a Dell R620. This uses a shared LOM as opposed to Enterprise that has a > dedicated one. Every now and then, idrac simply stops responding to > ping, so it can't respond to status commands from the proxy. If I send > a reboot with "ipmitool mc reset cold" command, the idrac reboots and > comes back, but after the problem has occurred, even after a reboot, it > responds to ping, but drops 80+% of packets. The only way I can "solve" > the problem is to physically restart the server. This isn't just > happening on one R620 - it's happening on all of my ovirt hosts. I > highly suspect it has to do with a memory leak, and being monitored by > engine causes the problem. I had applied a recent firmware upgrade > that was supposed to "solve" this kind of problem, but it doesn't. In > other to provide Dell with more details, can someone tell me how often > each host is being queried for status? I can't seem to find that info. > The idrac on my file server doesn't seem to exhibit the same problem, > and I suspect that is because it isn't being queried.