1. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans1 Solaris status and plans HEPIX Autumn 2003 Ignacio Reguero, Michel Manent, Carlos Ungil presented by Sebastian Lopienski

2. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans2 Executive Summary Current Status –Some figures SUNINST0 Network Installation Server CAE Server Upgrade SUNDEV Technology Refresh –New 10 Sun 210s Implementation of EDG WP4 Quattor fabric management on Solaris –System administration view Solaris 9 Certification Sun Blade Server 1600 and N1 Management

3. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans3 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 LanDB 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)

4. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans4 SUNINST0 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 SM18 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

5. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans5 CAE Server Upgrade (1) CAE - Electronic design cluster To serve the electronics design community New server: V480 –4 x 900 MHz CPU –8 Gb SDRAM –Gigabit ethernet A1000 RAID Disk box –436Gb 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 A1000 support

6. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans6 CAE Server Upgrade (2) IDPROM problem not solved yet –Considering to use other machine Cannot be too new (works on V220 or 280R) Also lots of A1000 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 A1000s to new server –After first installation, additional A1000s are not seen unless adding entries by hand to /kernel/drv/sd.conf with the relevant SCSI ID

7. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans7 CAE Server Upgrade

8. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans8 SUNDEV Technology Refresh A cluster for physics development 10 Sun Fire V210 –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 1GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi –2Gb memory –2 x 36GB 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

9. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans9 SUNDEV Technology Refresh

10. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans10 Implementation of EDG WP4 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 DataBase (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

11. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans11 Implementation of EDG WP4 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.

12. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans12 Implementation of EDG WP4 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 CDB Host REPOSITORY Host xm l pa n PKG NCM target.cf SPMA

13. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans13 Solaris 9 Certification Validating Solaris 9 – running all SW on the new system Timescale for the end of 2003 –Refsol9 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

14. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans14 Solaris Reference machines + Installation Server

15. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans15 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 650MHz UltraSPARC-IIe Waiting for 4 Intel Compatible CPUs –AMD Athlon XP-M 1.2GHz Other Specialized Blades supported on hardware level –SSL Encryptor –Load Balancer

16. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans16 Sun Blade Server 1600 system chassis SSC0 (active) SSC1 (standby) Switch Fabric External Switch 137.138.x.x (ce0)137.138.x.x (ce1)137.138.x.x (ce0)137.138.x.x (ce1) Slot 0……s15 Blades 0…….15

17. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans17 Sun Blade Server 1600

18. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans18 Sun Blade Server 1600 Installation and Configuration Fully automated network installation (DHCP) using Jumpstart from SUNINST0 –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 Blades 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

19. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans19 Sun N1 System Management Framework Sun N1 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 N1 with Quattor functionality Question: could N1 manage heterogeneous farms out the Blade server scope?

20. 21 October 2003CERN IT-PS-UI Solaris status and plans20 Questions? Unix Infrastructure section: http://cern.ch/product-support/UI Ignacio.Reguero@cern.ch Michel.Manent@cern.ch Carlos.Ungil@cern.ch