Test results for Dell Poweredge R770 with NVMe drives

olivierlambert

That's a mission for the team platform (bug in NodeBB I can't ping it anymore, so pinging @stormi to redirect it)

mik

many thanks for your answer

this seems to be common to other installation issue posts with Dell BOSS-N1, PERC H755, H965i ... and happens only starting from 8.3 LTS

olivierlambert

I think it's related to a Broadcom NIC issue that we identified. @stormi will be able to give a test ISO to verify this hypothesis

mik

in my first XCP-ng test server, I have this Broadcom network adapters (Dell R760):

a) Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5720)
b) Broadcom Adv. Quad 25Gb Ethernet
c) Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5719
d) Broadcom BCM57504 4x25G SFP28 PCIE
e) Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5719

adapters at point a) ad b) are integrated (but I can try to disable them using BIOS),
the other adapters can be disabled also extracting them (PCI).

if useful I can do that and identify which one is causing 8.3 installation boot stuck

Pilow

@olivierlambert eager to test this new ISO, we have two XCP clusters in 8.2 that need upgrading in 8.3 with these cards :

BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller

Do you think we would be impacted ?

These same servers also have I350 Gigabit Network Connectioncard (quad port)

olivierlambert

I think it's only the Broadcom NIC

acebmxer

FYI we have the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5720) in Dell R660 and Broadcom Adv. Dual 10GBASE-T Ethernet in Dell r640.

Currently have no issues with ether nic in XCP-NG 8.3

mik

This post is deleted!

mik

sorry for unwanted bold characters in previous post

I do confirm, 8.3 LTS installation boot sequence hungs with these two adapters:

Broadcom 57504 25G SFP28 Quad Port Adapter OCP 3.0 NIC
firmware version: 23.31.18.10 (Dell p/n 540-BCRX)

Broadcom 57504 Quad Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Full Height
firmware version: 23.31.18.10 (Dell p/n 540-BDCZ)

Leaving enabled only these ones, we have NO HUNGS during 8.3 boot:

Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1GbE LOM
firmware version: 23.31.1 (Dell p/n 540-BDKD)

Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1GbE BASE-T Adapter PCIe Low Profile V2
firmware version: 23.31.1 (Dell p/n 540-BDRK)----

olivierlambert

Yes, that's why our new ISO coming soon will get a more recent version of the driver, fixing the problem Hang on!

mik

many thanks, to start our evaluation XCP-ng + XOA we wait new ISO

XCP-ng maximum hardware nic quantity (eth ports) per host is 16 ...correct ?

Pilow

@olivierlambert said in Test results for Dell Poweredge R770 with NVMe drives:

Hang on!

no pun intended ?