HP 3PAR Ubuntu Operating System Implementation Guide

5 Known Issues and Examples
This section contains known issues as of the release date of this document. Issues may have been
addressed since the release date.
Issue
Static IP address entered during Ubuntu installation (IP address, gateway, etc.) are not in the /etc/
network/interfaces file.
Workaround
Manually enter the information into /etc/network/interfaces:
/etc/network/interfaces
Default installation using dhcp:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
# This is an autoconfigured IPv6 interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet6 auto
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.5
dns-search 3pardata.com
/etc/network/interfaces
Modified to ipv4 and static IP address:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.112.8.241
netmask 255.255.192.0
network 10.112.0.0
broadcast 10.112.63.255
gateway 10.112.0.1
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.5
dns-search 3pardata.com
# /etc/init.d/networking restart
Issue
BIOS is broken and requested that x2apic be disabled. This applies only to a Gen 8 server:
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