Solaris status and plans HEPIX Autumn 2003 Ignacio

Solaris status and plans HEPIX Autumn 2003 Ignacio Reguero, Michel Manent, Carlos Ungil presented by Sebastian Lopienski 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 1

Executive Summary • Current Status – Some figures • SUNINST 0 Network Installation Server • CAE Server Upgrade • SUNDEV Technology Refresh – New 10 Sun 210 s • Implementation of EDG WP 4 Quattor fabric management on Solaris – System administration view • Solaris 9 Certification • Sun Blade Server 1600 and N 1 Management 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 2

Current Status of Solaris Usage at CERN • Second platform for LHC physics – Mostly for validation purposes (numerical software) • Total population of 663 Active nodes – Figures from Lan. DB network database • Around 300 on Solaris 8 • Rest: about a half running Solaris 2. 6 and a half on Solaris 7 – Problem: Most of these machines cannot upgrade OS without hardware upgrade (disks and memory) 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 3

SUNINST 0 Network Installation Server • Jumpstart server • Network configurations + responsible now fully extracted from LANDB network database – With single fetch procedure • After router fix Sun DHCP server is stable – On request of SM 18 LHC Magnet Test had to demonstrate boot of exotic devices (like data acquisition devices) from it • However, still working with CS group to replace DHCP server with the one of CS – SOAP interface to an Oracle DB will allow us to update • Similar than the one in place for Print DNS hierarchy 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 4

CAE Server Upgrade (1) • CAE - Electronic design cluster • To serve the electronics design community • New server: V 480 – 4 x 900 MHz CPU – 8 Gb SDRAM – Gigabit ethernet • A 1000 RAID Disk box – 436 Gb with RAID 5 – space for users • Had to coordinate IDPROM change with disk movement – Hit technical and sociological problems – IDPROM change: a need to keep old Cadence licenses on new server - but SUN reluctant to do it for new HW models – At the end provided ad hoc solution that does not support OBP upgrade • Found the hard way! • And need OBP upgrade for A 1000 support 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 5

CAE Server Upgrade (2) • IDPROM problem not solved yet – Considering to use other machine • Cannot be too new (works on V 220 or 280 R) • Also lots of A 1000 RAID box problems – RAID manager software has to be coordinated with firmware level in the controller and OBP • So lots of upgrades required before connecting old A 1000 s to new server – After first installation, additional A 1000 s are not seen unless adding entries by hand to /kernel/drv/sd. conf with the relevant SCSI ID 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 6

CAE Server Upgrade 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 7

SUNDEV Technology Refresh • A cluster for physics development • 10 Sun Fire V 210 – State of the art SPARC machines – Thin Rack mountable servers • 1 unit on 19” racks • They all fit in a single CERN rack together with Gigabit switch and Sun blade server – – Dual 1 GHz Ultra. SPARC-IIIi 2 Gb memory 2 x 36 GB Disk drives 4 x GIGABIT Ethernet on the motherboard • They are being installed on Solaris 8. 7. 3 (latest required for this hardware), later Solaris 9 • Performance improvement at least 120% over the current SUNDEV machines 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 8

SUNDEV Technology Refresh 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 9

Implementation of EDG WP 4 Quattor fabric management on Solaris (1) • We plan to use Quattor to manage all Solaris systems – From Solaris 9 onwards • What does it mean for us? – Central Configuration Data. Base (CDB) • Configuration information • Software to be installed – Both applications and system • A cache manager provided for the client accessing the DB – To avoid dependency on the DB server or on the network • The configuration database is linked to the network installation server – The Jumpstart profile is generated from the database 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 10

Implementation of EDG WP 4 Quattor fabric management on Solaris (2) – Node Configuration Manager (NCM) • A la SUE • For configuration “components” – Simplified SUE features • NCM components are simplified SUE features • They have single action: “configure” • They access Configuration DB through the cache manager – SPMA software distributor (package level) • Replaces ASIS software distribution (file level) • For Linux it uses RPMs, for Solaris implemented with Solaris PKG • Allows to install packages from various SW repositories • Several protocols supported: HTTP, file system (AFS), FTP, etc. 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 11

Implementation of EDG WP 4 Quattor fabric management on Solaris (3) • Still working on – Creation of Solaris NCM Components from existing SUE features (Juan Pelegrin) – DB Access Control • For delegation – Behavior with “unmanaged” software xml CDB pan Host NCM REPOSITORY PKG REPOSITORY SPMA REPOSITORY target. cf 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 12

Solaris 9 Certification • Validating Solaris 9 – running all SW on the new system • Timescale for the end of 2003 – Refsol 9 reference machine now available • Not big changes in terms of Solaris, but new features: – “Web Start Flash Archives”: system images for installation • Nice for farms (but for same HW) – Resource pools • Guaranteed resources for an application on large shared systems – Gnome 2. 0 is the standard desktop environment – We deliver Mozilla 1. 4 (instead of Netscape recomm. by Sun) – Sun ONE Studio 8 as default compiler • Replacement of ASIS and SUE with Quattor • More Open Source software packaged with the system – Perl, Bash, … – Some of these products supported on same basis as SUN native ones – Probably occasion to reduce the number of products maintained by us 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 13

Solaris Reference machines + Installation Server 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 14

Sun Blade Server 1600 • Sun Blade server 1600 – Packaged farm – Fits in 3 units of a 19” rack – SSC Controller with gigabit switch that manages up to 16 CPUs • • Several Gigabit Ethernet external connections VLAN with 16 Gigabit Ethernet Interface Protection attack by Packet Filter configuration Console through Serial Port for each Blade • Received 12 X 650 MHz Ultra. SPARC-IIe • Waiting for 4 “Intel Compatible” CPUs – AMD Athlon XP-M 1. 2 GHz • Other Specialized Blades supported on hardware level – SSL Encryptor – Load Balancer 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 15

Sun Blade Server 1600 system chassis External Switch SSC 0 Switch Fabric (active) (standby) Slot 0……s 15 137. 138. x. x (ce 0) SSC 1 Slot 0……s 15 137. 138. x. x (ce 1) 137. 138. x. x (ce 0) 137. 138. x. x (ce 1) Blades 0……. 15 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 16

Sun Blade Server 1600 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 17

Sun Blade Server 1600 Installation and Configuration • Fully automated network installation (DHCP) using Jumpstart from SUNINST 0 – Initial configuration, installation & application software • One private IP address for each System Controller • One IP address for each Blade • Ongoing Test of Web Start Flash Archives – Quick replicate one Blade’s operating environment & application software on other Blades intended • Sun VTS (Validation Test Suite) online diagnostics tool – verifies configuration and functionality of hardware controllers, devices and platforms 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 18

Sun N 1 System Management Framework • Sun N 1 Provisioning server 3. 0 Blade Edition being tested – Automates configuration and deployment different kinds of servers • Including specialized servers • Assignment may vary according to a schedule or other input – dynamic management of clusters • To compare N 1 with Quattor functionality • Question: could N 1 manage heterogeneous farms out the Blade server scope? 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 19

Questions? Unix Infrastructure section: http: //cern. ch/product-support/UI Ignacio. Reguero@cern. ch Michel. Manent@cern. ch Carlos. Ungil@cern. ch 21 October 2003 CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans 20