[Users] Xeon 5060 support "Dempsey"
Peter Galgano
peter at cleftstoneworks.com
Tue Jan 28 17:53:43 UTC 2014
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide
We are testing Ovirt 3.2.2 on a 2007 vintage dual Xeon 5060 (Dempsey)
Supermicro Superserver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#5000-series_.22Dempsey.22. This hardware
runs Centos 6.5 and KVM / virt manager just fine, and we have be running
many virtual machines on this hardware with reasonable performance for many
years
We are getting the message: "Non-Operational state as host does not meet
the cluster's minimum CPU level" each time we create a host.
After researching this list, we are coming to the conclusion that this
older processor is not being recognized by ovirt.
Output of virsh -r capabilities and vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps are posted
below.
We havent found anyone with exactly this use case in our research. The
closest thread is this:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2012-May/007536.html
This poster was able to add some lines to the db to recognize his
processor. Here is the advice he received in that post.
> ok, indeed an old host.
> the below config is what we used before going to the 'model' approach, so
you can try this out (though highly recommended for newer cpu since they
improved virt support in each generation)
>
> set the ServerCPUList config to this string for the relevant cluster
compatibility level.
>
> I'm not sure upgrade won't override this for you though, so pay attention
on upgrades to such a low level tweak (it's config, but not all configs are
really expected to be changed by user)
>
> '2:Intel Xeon w/o XD/NX:vmx,sse2:qemu64,-nx,+sse2; 3:Intel
Xeon:vmx,sse2,nx:qemu64,+sse2; 4:Intel Conroe
Family:vmx,sse2,nx,cx16,ssse3:qemu64,+sse2,+cx16,+ssse3; 5:Intel Penryn
Family:vmx,sse2,nx,cx16,ssse3,sse4_1:qemu64,+sse2,+cx16,+ssse3,+sse4.1;
6:Intel Nehalem
Family:vmx,sse2,nx,cx16,ssse3,sse4_1,sse4_2,popcnt:qemu64,+sse2,+cx16,+ssse3,+sse4.1,+sse4.2,+popcnt;
2:AMD Opteron G1 w/o NX:svm,sse2:qemu64,-nx,+sse2; 3:AMD Opteron
G1:svm,sse2,nx:qemu64,+sse2; 4:AMD Opteron
G2:svm,sse2,nx,cx16:qemu64,+sse2,+cx16; 5:AMD Opteron
G3:svm,sse2,nx,cx16,sse4a,misalignsse,popcnt,abm:qemu64,+sse2,+cx16,+sse4a,+misalignsse,+popcnt,+abm;'
We think we understand what is happening: our processors capabilities will
be matched by processor type line 2 or 3, and then the host won't be
rendered "non-operational".
My Questions:
1. is this the correct change to ServerCPUList config in the db,
2. Is this the proper way to get support for older processors?
3. Is this documented anywhere? Can someone please help with a step by step
for less experienced users?
4. Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect Ovirt to support processors that KVM
supports by default? What is the minimum perceived processor expected to
be? why is is conroe, when perfectly functional processors a few months
older cause errors?
The server hardware we are using is fine for our purposes, we don't intend
to upgrade for this purpose.at this time.
Thanks again
Peter
[root at sun1 /]# virsh -r capabilities
<capabilities>
<host>
<uuid>46d8f975-c4c9-44af-b4f8-d4851e2331e0</uuid>
<cpu>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<model>cpu64-rhel6</model>
<vendor>Intel</vendor>
<topology sockets='2' cores='2' threads='2'/>
<feature name='pdcm'/>
<feature name='xtpr'/>
<feature name='cid'/>
<feature name='vmx'/>
<feature name='ds_cpl'/>
<feature name='monitor'/>
<feature name='dtes64'/>
<feature name='pbe'/>
<feature name='tm'/>
<feature name='ht'/>
<feature name='ss'/>
<feature name='acpi'/>
<feature name='ds'/>
<feature name='vme'/>
</cpu>
[root at sun1 /]# vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps
HBAInventory = {'FC': [], 'iSCSI': [{'InitiatorName':
'iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:f52e99df611'}]}
ISCSIInitiatorName = 'iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:f52e99df611'
bondings = {'bond0': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:00:00:00:00:00',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'slaves': []},
'bond1': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:00:00:00:00:00',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'slaves': []},
'bond2': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:00:00:00:00:00',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'slaves': []},
'bond3': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:00:00:00:00:00',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'slaves': []},
'bond4': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:00:00:00:00:00',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'slaves': []}}
bridges = {'br0': {'addr': '192.168.0.5',
'cfg': {'BOOTPROTO': 'none',
'BROADCAST': '192.168.0.255',
'DELAY': '0',
'DEVICE': 'br0',
'GATEWAY': '192.168.0.250',
'IPADDR': '192.168.0.5',
'IPV6INIT': 'no',
'MACADDR': '',
'MTU': '',
'NAME': '',
'NETMASK': '255.255.255.0',
'NETWORK': '192.168.0.0',
'ONBOOT': 'yes',
'STP': 'on',
'TYPE': 'Bridge'},
'gateway': '192.168.0.250',
'ipv6addrs': ['fe80::230:48ff:fe78:88cc/64'],
'ipv6gateway': '::',
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '255.255.255.0',
'ports': ['eth0', 'vnet0'],
'stp': 'on'}}
clusterLevels = ['3.0', '3.1', '3.2', '3.3']
cpuCores = '4'
cpuFlags =
'fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,ht,tm,pbe,syscall,nx,lm,constant_tsc,pebs,bts,pni,dtes64,monitor,ds_cpl,vmx,cid,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,lahf_lm,tpr_shadow,model_coreduo'
cpuModel = 'Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz'
cpuSockets = '2'
cpuSpeed = '1200.000'
cpuThreads = '8'
emulatedMachines = ['rhel6.5.0',
'pc',
'rhel6.4.0',
'rhel6.3.0',
'rhel6.2.0',
'rhel6.1.0',
'rhel6.0.0',
'rhel5.5.0',
'rhel5.4.4',
'rhel5.4.0']
guestOverhead = '65'
hooks = {}
kvmEnabled = 'true'
lastClient = '192.168.0.5'
lastClientIface = 'br0'
management_ip = '0.0.0.0'
memSize = '10020'
netConfigDirty = 'False'
networks = {'br0': {'addr': '192.168.0.5',
'bridged': True,
'cfg': {'BOOTPROTO': 'none',
'BROADCAST': '192.168.0.255',
'DELAY': '0',
'DEVICE': 'br0',
'GATEWAY': '192.168.0.250',
'IPADDR': '192.168.0.5',
'IPV6INIT': 'no',
'MACADDR': '',
'MTU': '',
'NAME': '',
'NETMASK': '255.255.255.0',
'NETWORK': '192.168.0.0',
'ONBOOT': 'yes',
'STP': 'on',
'TYPE': 'Bridge'},
'gateway': '192.168.0.250',
'iface': 'br0',
'ipv6addrs': ['fe80::230:48ff:fe78:88cc/64'],
'ipv6gateway': '::',
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '255.255.255.0',
'ports': ['eth0', 'vnet0'],
'qosInbound': '',
'qosOutbound': '',
'stp': 'on'}}
nics = {'eth0': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {'BOOTPROTO': 'none',
'BRIDGE': 'br0',
'BROADCAST': '',
'DEVICE': 'eth0',
'HWADDR': '00:30:48:78:88:CC',
'IPADDR': '',
'IPV6INIT': 'no',
'MACADDR': '',
'MTU': '',
'NAME': '',
'NETMASK': '',
'NETWORK': '',
'ONBOOT': 'yes'},
'hwaddr': '00:30:48:78:88:cc',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'speed': 1000},
'eth1': {'addr': '',
'cfg': {},
'hwaddr': '00:30:48:78:88:cd',
'ipv6addrs': [],
'mtu': '1500',
'netmask': '',
'speed': 0}}
operatingSystem = {'name': 'RHEL', 'release': '5.el6.centos.11.2',
'version': '6'}
packages2 = {'kernel': {'buildtime': 1361511086.0,
'release': '358.el6.x86_64',
'version': '2.6.32'},
'libvirt': {'buildtime': 1387360004,
'release': '29.el6_5.2',
'version': '0.10.2'},
'mom': {'buildtime': 1385055971, 'release': '6.el6',
'version': '0.3.2'},
'qemu-img': {'buildtime': 1386101870,
'release': '2.415.el6_5.3',
'version': '0.12.1.2'},
'qemu-kvm': {'buildtime': 1386101870,
'release': '2.415.el6_5.3',
'version': '0.12.1.2'},
'spice-server': {'buildtime': 1386756528,
'release': '6.el6_5.1',
'version': '0.12.4'},
'vdsm': {'buildtime': 1386757669, 'release': '1.el6',
'version': '4.13.2'}}
reservedMem = '321'
software_revision = '1'
software_version = '4.13'
supportedENGINEs = ['3.0', '3.1', '3.2', '3.3']
supportedProtocols = ['2.2', '2.3']
uuid = '53D19F64-D663-A017-8922-0030487888CC'
version_name = 'Snow Man'
vlans = {}
vmTypes = ['kvm']
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