Timeouts during loading of InfiniBand drivers make my filesystem clients fail. Is there a workaround? Yes. Driver modules load in a hierarchy (a dependency chain), and delays due to non-standard use can cause timeouts as...
What is ipmi_si and why am I getting a message about it? ipmi_si is a kernel module that Red Hat and similar decided to discontinue in v6.4. When doing image changes, Bright...
Windows DHCP or WDS is blocking PXE boot. How do I fix it? Sometimes a running Windows DHCP server is needed which cannot be disabled, and also happens to be connected to the...
How do I revert back to PXE boot over TFTP instead of HTTP? Starting from Bright 7.3, HTTP is used for nodes PXE booting instead of TFTP. However, it has been noticed that...
How do I set up a storage node? Aside from the following points, setting up a storage node is no different from setting up any other compute node: ...
The node-installer fails to detect the bridge interfaces after upgrading to RHEL/CentOS 7.3 In recent (december 2016) versions of RHEL/CentOS 7.3, the bridge kernel module has been split into two components: the bridge...
How do I (re)install an operating system on a compute node disk, without losing data on the other disks? Sometimes an administrator may want to install the operating system onto one of the drives of a regular (compute) node,...
My regular nodes aren’t booting up after an update, why? What now? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How can I flash update all my nodes (from Linux)? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I automatically plug in new nodes and assign it an identity in Bright? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node with Bright? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
Troubleshooting provisioning issues on a system with SuperMicro BMC Please note this article shouldn’t replace the need to contact your vendor for guidance on hardware issues. Here are some...