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

[Eli Mesika]

CCing Marek Grac 

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Keltz" <jason.keltz at gmail.com>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Cc: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason.
>