On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 3:17 PM <manieq.net(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pretty new to OVirt so forgive me if this problems is trivial...
I received an old IBM BladeCenter H chassis with a few HS22 blades. Some of them are
successfully working in my Ovirt farm, but some not. The NonOperational nodes are not used
because of missing Westmere model. I use 4.3.10 wersion because 4.4 did not supported some
old HW (net adapters, IIRC).
The problem is that many blades are almost identical. For example ("Hosts" page
--> "General" tab --> "Hardware" section):
* BLADE 1 (not working):
Manufacturer:IBM
Family:System x
Product Name:BladeCenter HS22 -[7870H4G]-
Version:07
UUID:e36b6686-d111-11df-9dce-e41f13cb90d0
Serial Number:06FP476
CPU Model Name:Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz
CPU Type:Intel Nehalem IBRS SSBD Family
CPU Sockets:2
CPU Cores per Socket:6
CPU Threads per Core:2 (SMT Enabled)
* BLADE 2 (working fine):
Manufacturer: IBM
Family: System x
Product Name: BladeCenter HS22 -[7870H4G]-
Version: 07
UUID: 30f2fcc8-d0ce-11df-bc12-e41f13cb90cc
Serial Number: 06FP469
CPU Model Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz
CPU Type: Intel Westmere IBRS SSBD Family
CPU Sockets: 2
CPU Cores per Socket: 6
CPU Threads per Core: 2 (SMT Enabled)
They have same CPU, same HW model, even S/N shows they were produced in the same time.
How is it possible to identify X5670 so differently? Any hints/suggestions what to
check/change?
Most likely they have some different configuration in the BIOS/CMOS/etc. setup.
Perhaps also try comparing the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' between
them, and search general linux documentation about the meaning of the
flags that are different between them.
Good luck and best regards,
--
Didi