17 Monday Feb 2014
Posted in Oracle
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Yes, games can be a bit of a time suck but who knew Oracle had games? This is a marketing tool for the SPARC platform. Its pretty fun but I’m not sure how this helps sell servers.
http://oraclerunner.com/orarunner/
08 Saturday Feb 2014
New versions of SnapDrive and MPIO that officially support Windows 2012 R2 have been released. See the URL’s below.
Data ONTAP DSM 4.1 for Windows MPIO
http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/mpio_win/4.1/
SnapDrive 7.0.2 for Windows
http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/snapdrive_win/7.0.2/
03 Monday Feb 2014
Posted in Windows
I was asked recently whether a certain app or service required the .NET framework and while I generally knew the answer was no, I had no proof. I kept thinking, how can I determine what apps on this server were actually .NET? The following is a quick way to find those apps.
Microsoft Sysinternals Suite is an excellent set of utilities used to get under the hood of Windows and various Microsoft services. You can download the individual utilities but I just download the entire Suite. This post will use Process Explorer from the Suite but will barely scratch the surface of this powerful utility.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062
To find out what .NET assembly versions you have installed, run Asoft’s .NET Version Detector. There is more to .NET detection than just looking in Add/Remove Programs, Program Files or the Registry.
http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html
1) Download and unzip Asoft’s .NET Version Detector. Double-click the dotnet.exe file, click OK on the license page and it will render your versions on the left and in the lower section. On the right they conveniently provide you with the default .NET version for each Windows OS. This is a great time saver. Thanks Asoft devs!
2) Download the Sysinternals Suite at the URL above or just download Process Explorer itself. Unzip and copy the procexp.chm and procexp.exe files to C:\Windows\System32 or if you don’t want to place them in System32 just park them in a location of your choice. Process Explorer is standalone so no installation is required.
3) In order to access the .NET tabs, it must be run as Administrator. I prefer to execute it from the CLI. Start > enter cmd.exe in the search field and cmd.exe will appear at the top. Right-click it and select Run As Administrator. If you didn’t place it in the System32 folder, change directories to the location of procexp.exe. To run it just type procexp.exe and press enter. You can also just right-click the procexp.exe file and select Run As Administrator. Click Yes on the User Account Control pop-up window.
4) Select Options > Configure Colors.
5) Select the check box next to .Net Processes in the yellow box and click OK. This will highlight .NET processes in yellow.
6) Scroll up and down in the process column and look for yellow highlighted entries. Note that there may not be any. If you suspect that an application might be a .NET application simply start it and check the process column again for that app. In this case, the first instance I find is Microsoft AD web services.
7) Right-click the service that is highlighted in yellow and select Properties. Select the .NET Assemblies and .NET Performance tabs to dig deeper into the service.
8) A less useful but honorable mention goes to wmic. It provides the installed version but little else. I need to play around with it a bit more and see what I can find. Running the command below will provide the installed version and takes about 30 seconds to run.
C:\Windows\system32> wmic product where “Name like ‘Microsoft .Net%'” get Name, Version
Name Version
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 4.5.50938
01 Saturday Feb 2014
This post demonstrates how to enable Bidirectional or Mutual CHAP on iSCSI luns between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Beta) and NetApp storage. The aggregate, lun and disk sizes are small in this HOWTO to keep it simple.
1) If not already installed, install the iSCSI initiator on your system.
> yum install iscsi-initiator*
2) Display your server’s new iscsi initiator or iqn nodename.
> cat /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi
InitiatorName=iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
3) On the NetApp filer, create the volume that will hold the iscsi luns. This command assumes you have aggregate aggr1 already created. If not use an aggregate that has enough room for your volume.
netapp> vol create MCHAPVOL aggr1 10g
4) Create the lun in the volume.
netapp> lun create -s 5g -t linux /vol/MCHAPVOL/RHEL7_iSCSI_MCHAP_01
5) Create an igroup and add the Linux iscsi nodename or iqn from step 2 above to the new igroup.
netapp> igroup create -i -t linux ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7
netapp> igroup add ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7 iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
netapp> igroup show ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7
ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7 (iSCSI) (ostype: linux):
iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 (not logged in)
6) Map the lun to the igroup and give it lun ID 01.
netapp> lun map /vol/MCHAPVOL/RHEL7_iSCSI_MCHAP_01 ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7 01
7) Obtain the NetApp target nodename.
netapp> iscsi nodename
iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
8) Set the CHAP secret on the NetApp controller.
netapp> iscsi security add -i iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 -s chap -p RHEL7 -n iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 -o NETAPPMCHAP -m iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
netapp> iscsi security show
init: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 auth: CHAP Inbound password: **** Inbound username: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 Outbound password: **** Outbound username: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
9) On the server, edit your /etc/iscsi/iscsi.conf file and set the parameters below.
> vi /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
node.startup = automatic
node.session.auth.authmethod = CHAP
node.session.auth.username = iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
node.session.auth.password = RHEL7
node.session.auth.username_in = iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
node.session.auth.password_in = NETAPPMCHAP
discovery.sendtargets.auth.authmethod = CHAP
discovery.sendtargets.auth.username = iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
discovery.sendtargets.auth.password = RHEL7
discovery.sendtargets.auth.username_in = iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
discovery.sendtargets.auth.password_in = NETAPPMCHAP
> wq!
10) On the server, restart the service and discover your iSCSI target (your storage system).
> service iscsi restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart iscsi.service
a) Verify the target.
> iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 10.10.10.11
10.10.10.11:3260,1000 iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
> iscsiadm -m node (this should display the same as above)
10.10.10.11:3260,1000 iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
11) On the server, manually login to the iSCSI target (your storage array). Note there are two dashes “- -” in front of targetname and login.
> iscsiadm -m node –targetname “iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939” –login
Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939, portal: 10.10.10.11,3260] (multiple)
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939, portal: 10.10.10.11,3260] successful.
a) On the NetApp storage console you should see the iSCSI session:
[iscsi.notice:notice]: ISCSI: New session from initiator iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9 at IP addr 10.10.10.186
b) Verify the iSCSI session on the filer:
netapp> iscsi session show
Session 88
Initiator Information
Initiator Name: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
ISID: 00:02:3d:01:00:00
Initiator Alias: rhel7
12) From the server , check your session.
> iscsiadm -m session -P 1
Target: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939
Current Portal: 10.10.10.11:3260,1000
Persistent Portal: 10.10.10.11:3260,1000
**********
Interface:
**********
Iface Name: default
Iface Transport: tcp
Iface Initiatorname: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
Iface IPaddress: 10.10.10.186
Iface HWaddress: <empty>
Iface Netdev: <empty>
SID: 1
iSCSI Connection State: LOGGED IN
iSCSI Session State: LOGGED_IN
Internal iscsid Session State: NO CHANGE
13) From the server, check the NetApp iSCSI details. Note there are two dashes “- -” in front of mode, targetname and portal.
> iscsiadm –mode node –targetname “iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939” –portal 10.10.10.11:3260
14) From the server, find and format the new lun (new disk). Your fdisk commands are in bold red below.
> cat /var/log/messages | grep “unknown partition table”
rhel7 kernel: [ 24.102281] sdb: unknown partition table
> fdisk /dev/sdb
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Device does not contain a recognized partition table
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x2c025f67.
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
> fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-10485759, default 2048): <press enter>
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-10485759, default 10485759): <press enter>
Using default value 10485759
Partition 1 of type Linux and of size 5 GiB is set
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes, 10485760 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xeb560917
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 10485759 5241856 83 Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
15) On the server, create the Linux file system on the new partition.
> mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
327680 inodes, 1310464 blocks
65523 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=1342177280
40 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
16) Verify the partition.
> blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: UUID=”540997d7-ee07-42b3-a4af-612af6812d18″ TYPE=”ext4″
17) Create the mount point and manually mount the directory.
> mkdir /newiscsilun
> mount /dev/sdb1 /newiscsilun
> df -h | grep newiscsilun
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 4.8G 10M 4.6G 1% /newiscsilun
18) Add the new mount point to /etc/fstab.
> vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1 /newiscsilun ext4 _netdev 0 0
> wq!
Note: the _netdev option is important so that it doesn’t try mounting the target before the network is available.
19) Test that it survives a reboot by rebooting the server. With the _netdev set, iscsi starts and your CHAP logins should take place before it attempts to mount. After the reboot, login and verify its mounted.
> df -h | grep newiscsilun
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 5.0G 139M 4.6G 3% /newiscsilun
20) On the server you can check session stats.
> iscsiadm -m session -s
Stats for session [sid: 1, target: iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84167939, portal: 10.10.10.11,3260]
iSCSI SNMP:
txdata_octets: 17096
rxdata_octets: 748232
noptx_pdus: 0
scsicmd_pdus: 213
tmfcmd_pdus: 0
login_pdus: 0
text_pdus: 0
dataout_pdus: 0
logout_pdus: 0
snack_pdus: 0
noprx_pdus: 0
scsirsp_pdus: 213
tmfrsp_pdus: 0
textrsp_pdus: 0
datain_pdus: 204
logoutrsp_pdus: 0
r2t_pdus: 0
async_pdus: 0
rjt_pdus: 0
digest_err: 0
timeout_err: 0
iSCSI Extended:
tx_sendpage_failures: 0
rx_discontiguous_hdr: 0
eh_abort_cnt: 0
21) As root, change permissions on /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf. I’m not sure why they haven’t fixed this clear text CHAP password in a file issue so just make sure only root can read/write the file.
> chmod 600 /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf
22) On the NetApp storage you can verify the Lun and the server’s session.
> lun show -v /vol/MCHAPVOL/RHEL7_iSCSI_MCHAP_01
/vol/MCHAPVOL/RHEL7_iSCSI_MCHAP_01 5g (5368709120) (r/w, online, mapped)
Serial#: hoagPJvrDTup
Share: none
Space Reservation: enabled (not honored by containing Aggregate)
Multiprotocol Type: linux
Maps: ISCSI_MCHAP_RHEL7=1
> iscsi session show -v
Session 90
Initiator Information
Initiator Name: iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:ece5618996a9
ISID: 00:02:3d:01:00:00
Initiator Alias: rhel7
Session Parameters
SessionType=Normal
TargetPortalGroupTag=1000
MaxConnections=1
ErrorRecoveryLevel=0
AuthMethod=CHAP
HeaderDigest=None
DataDigest=None
ImmediateData=Yes
InitialR2T=No
FirstBurstLength=65536
MaxBurstLength=65536
Initiator MaxRecvDataSegmentLength=65536
Target MaxRecvDataSegmentLength=65536
DefaultTime2Wait=2
DefaultTime2Retain=0
MaxOutstandingR2T=1
DataPDUInOrder=Yes
DataSequenceInOrder=Yes
Command Window Size: 32
Connection Information
Connection 0
Remote Endpoint: 10.10.10.186:59575
Local Endpoint: 10.10.10.11:3260
Local Interface: e0a
TCP recv window size: 131400
Command Information
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