I have had a system panicking when running the mentioned below configuration: RedHat RHEL 4 Update 6 (4.6) 64bit (x86_64) Dell PowerEdge servers Oracle RAC 11g with Clusterware 11g EMC iSCSI storage EMC PowerPate Vote and Registry LUNs are accessible as raw devices Data files are accessible through ASM with libASM During reboots or shutdowns,…
This is a rather common knowledge now that on RHEL4 you need to state inside /etc/modprobe.conf the following line, when you want more than one bonding interfaces: options bonding max_bonds=2 Then you attempt to use a trick to address different bonding devices with their name (aka, bond0 and bond1, and maybe bond2, etc), using an…
RHEL4 tends to change the names of network cards when there are more than one. If you had a NIC called eth0 during install time, it doesn’t mean that it will maintain that name after the first reboot. It could switch names with its friend, and be called now eth1, while the previous eth1 name…
cat /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/$Z” where Z represents the SCSI interface the Qlogic has taken for itself, you’ll get something like this: <Snip> . . </Snip> SCSI LUN Information: (Id:Lun) * – indicates lun is not registered with the OS. ( 0: 0): Total reqs 63185608, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x2, 0:0:81 00 Assuming you’ve just added the…
