Ben's notes

• E3-1240v3 3.4GHz 4-core
• 32GB ECC memory
• P222 RAID controller
• 4x 300GB 15k SAS
• Dual NIC 361T

• Run HP SPP (Service Pack for ProLiant) for firmware updates.
• Disable boot logo in BIOS.
• Disable B120i RAID controller (we use the P222 controller)
• Create RAID10 with 4 disks

• Install over the network (PXE), eth2 = management.
• Set hostname.
• Select time zone.
• Set root password.
• Configure filesystem.
  • Reduce swap to 4GB.
  • Reduce /home to 4GB.
  • Create /var 32GB.
  • Write changes to disk.
• Install grub on /dev/sda (MBR)

• Configure network
  • Edit /etc/sysconfig/network and add:

    NOZEROCONF=yes

  • Configure management network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2.
  • Check /etc/resolv.conf.
• Create user.
• Configure repositories /etc/yum.repos.d.
• Update.
• Disable SSH root login.
• Configure NTPd.
• Configure root mail, relayhost.
• Reboot (new kernel).
• Install HP repository…
• Install HP tools.

  yum -y install hponcfg hpacucli hpssacli hp-health

• hpacucli
• hpasmcli
• hp-health

• See apcupsd

• Trunks → Trunk configuration → create
• Trunks → Trunk membershipt → add ports to trunk (M & L)
• VLANs → participation → tag VLANs on trunk

Configure bonding on CentOS: centos65_bonding.

See: KVM Host CentOS 6.4