On 07/01/2024 19:56, John Cooper via CentOS-devel wrote:
Hi Phil,
I accept that you would be for the v3 base line, however the v3 base line would obliterate the 3 system home lab. I entered the home lab community in the last 2 years at most, the Dell PowerEdge R620 are my very first home lab servers. What’s more they were gifts.
I'll also repeat here what was said on IRC. RHEL 9 is x86_64-v2 and also has the megaraid_sas driver that supports your controller. RHEL 9 works on an R620 withg an H710p RAID controller and is not going away until 2032 so you are safe to use your hardware on RHEL 9 until then. At that point a Dell R620 will be approximately 20 years old and if you haven't already replaced it with something newer then you probably should do. Your hardware will continue to function on RHEL 9 until then.
But, if he later wanted to run RHEL 10 on it in a VM, this would still not be possible, right?
IMHO the whole IT industry and community does quite a bad job here making systems obsolete on a large scale with no real technical requirement. Technically, it would be possible to implement complete operating systems and applications in a way which makes them dynamically select and use the offered capabilities of the underlying hardware. We really should never forget that.
Regards, Simon