Setting up testsystem on HP DL380p

[mima]

Dear community,
I have two obsolete HP Storevirtual 4730 which are basically HP ProLiant DL380p G8 servers with a bunch of HDD's and a special Firmware/OS.
On these I want to test and play around with Proxmox for the first time, but need your help.
Even after reading the admin guide I'm pretty lost.

What I have:
*2 Proxmox VE installations done and combined in a cluster.
*3 logical drives on the Smart Array P420i RAID Controller. 32GB where I installed PVE, and two 6TB drives. (I did not create them)
*One 1 Gbit ethernet connection and one not working 10Gbit ethernet connection.

Where I need help:
*The two 6TB logical drives are shown as sdb and sdc in the discs menu of the GUI. "Usage" is "partition". I can't find a way to configure these drives in the GUI and also don't know what exactly they have to be, to use them as the storage for virtual machines. They are RAID 5 logical drives with 12 physical HDD's each.
Also it would be great if both machines would sync those drives, as they did before. (As Storevirtuals with high availability over seperate iSCSI network)
*The four 10Gbit ports are not recognized by PVE. Maybe someone knows how to install drivers for those?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Dominic]

Running something like

wipefs -a /dev/sdc
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=200

should remove all remaining information from the disk and make them accessible to Proxmox VE. You can then use the GUI of Proxmox VE to use them as storages for Proxmox VE (LVM, Directories, ...).
You could try ZFS storage replication to sync the VMs between the two machines. Also, some form of third node for quorum like a qdevice makes sense.

For the ethernet connection: Proxmox VE is Debian + Ubuntu kernel => You can use those key words when you look for drivers.

 

[mima]

Thanks for your help Dominic.
With your commands I was able to make the existing logical volumes usable.
I don't know how I can try to do a ZFS storage replication. Can you give me some more details about that please?

Regarding the network cards. I found out that its called "be2net" a.k.a. Emulex 10GbE and the drivers are included in the Kernel.
It looks like it's connected as ens2f0 and ens2f1.

root@pve1:~# lspci | grep Emulex
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)
07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)
root@pve1:~# dmesg | grep be2net
[    3.707111] be2net 0000:07:00.0: be2net version is 12.0.0.0
[    3.707652] be2net 0000:07:00.0: PCIe error reporting enabled
[    4.040239] be2net 0000:07:00.0: FW config: function_mode=0x14003, function_caps=0x7
[    4.184237] be2net 0000:07:00.0: Max: txqs 16, rxqs 17, rss 16, eqs 8, vfs 30
[    4.184241] be2net 0000:07:00.0: Max: uc-macs 30, mc-macs 64, vlans 64
[    4.184583] be2net 0000:07:00.0: enabled 8 MSI-x vector(s) for NIC
[    4.792252] be2net 0000:07:00.0: created 8 TX queue(s)
[    5.008232] be2net 0000:07:00.0: created 9 RX queue(s)
[    5.061288] be2net 0000:07:00.0: FW version is 11.1.183.23
[    5.062344] be2net 0000:07:00.0: HW Flow control - TX:1 RX:1
[    5.071913] be2net 0000:07:00.0: Emulex OneConnect(be3): PF  port 1
[    5.072058] be2net 0000:07:00.1: be2net version is 12.0.0.0
[    5.072710] be2net 0000:07:00.1: PCIe error reporting enabled
[    5.324230] be2net 0000:07:00.1: FW config: function_mode=0x14003, function_caps=0x7
[    5.468240] be2net 0000:07:00.1: Max: txqs 16, rxqs 17, rss 16, eqs 8, vfs 29
[    5.468244] be2net 0000:07:00.1: Max: uc-macs 30, mc-macs 64, vlans 64
[    5.468553] be2net 0000:07:00.1: enabled 8 MSI-x vector(s) for NIC
[    6.068244] be2net 0000:07:00.1: created 8 TX queue(s)
[    6.284230] be2net 0000:07:00.1: created 9 RX queue(s)
[    6.337280] be2net 0000:07:00.1: FW version is 11.1.183.23
[    6.338329] be2net 0000:07:00.1: HW Flow control - TX:1 RX:1
[    6.343890] be2net 0000:07:00.1: Emulex OneConnect(be3): PF  port 2
[    6.346198] be2net 0000:07:00.0 ens2f0: renamed from eth0
[    6.360696] be2net 0000:07:00.1 ens2f1: renamed from eth1
[ 2279.662318] be2net 0000:07:00.1 ens2f1: Link is Down
[ 2279.666310] be2net 0000:07:00.0 ens2f0: Link is Up

At the moment, 1Gb port eno1 is the Linux Brige vmbr0 with the management IP.
Can I just edit this bridge and add ens2f0 to the ports list, like: eno1,ens2f0 or something like that?
It would need some active/passive configuration, doesn't it?

 

[Dominic]

Can I just edit this bridge and add ens2f0 to the ports list, like: eno1,ens2f0 or something like that?

You can do such operations in the GUI if you click on your node and then System->Network. Consider the network configuration guide.

I don't know how I can try to do a ZFS storage replication. Can you give me some more details about that please?

Have you seen the "Replication" entry that is in the menu of each node? This is the ZFS storage replication.