After Installation, Connecting San With Internal Hdd/Ssd - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series Installation Manual

CHAPTER 4 Installation of Operating System and bundled software
4.6 Procedure to install RHEL into internal HDD/SSD
4. The dump area is configured.
Confirm that hard disk has enough free space before collecting the memory dump.
After OS installation, do a setting of kdump as following:
a. Change the setting of Grub's parameter "crashkernel" to "256MB".
(example)
Edit the file "/etc/grub.conf" as following:
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (<kernel revision>.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-<kernel revision>.x86_64 ro root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro
rd_NO_LUKS LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrhebsun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=jp106
rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM crashkernel=256M
initrd /initramfs-<kernel revision>.x86_64.img
b. Change setting of kdump to work with small memory
- Case of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
Add setting of cp command to core_collector of /etc/kdump.conf file
Edit the file "/etc/kdump.conf" as following:
core_collector cp --sparse=always
extra_bins /bin/cp
[Note] makedumpfile command cannot be used for core_collector because the command uses big memory
- Case of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
Any changes is not needed for core_collector
[Note] RHEL6.5 improves memory usage of the makedumpfile command.
c. Reboot
5. NTP client is configured.
NTP server on the operating system side is configured.
For details, see
6. Save the management information and configuration.
For details, see
7. UPS battery monitor is set.
When the duration of life of the UPS battery is monitored: see "Setting for component replacement alert for
PRIMEQUEST ". This document is downloaded from the following URL.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/mission-
critical/primequest/documents/manuals/
8. Watchdog Timer allows reboot OS in case that OS freezes.
passes.
For details, see "8.4 Automatic Partition Restart Conditions" of PRIMEQUEST 2000 series Administration
Manual (CA92344-0537).

4.6.5 After installation, connecting SAN with internal HDD/SSD

See PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series SAN Boot Environment Configuration Manual , for connecting SAN with internal
HDD/SSD, after installation.
Moreover, for details on driver parameter, see readme of the driver supplied.
and system may run out of memory.
"5.6 Setup of NTP client".
""5.7 Saving management and configuration information".
Rebooting OS is executed when the set time
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