On 12/4/05, Bryan J. Smith thebs413@earthlink.net wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
Also, any recommendations for which Dell PERC or Dell SATA RAID adapters can I expect to work nicely with CentOS?
If RHEL supports them, CentOS will support them.
If, on the other hand, Dell gives you trouble for CentOS installs, and you have recommendations for other server vendors, let me know. In particular, one that can provide on-site warranty support in Toronto, Canada, would be great.
Most Tier-1 OEMs don't want to support anything but a combined hardware/software solution.
Right, that is what they told me.
With that said, many Tier-2 and whitebox OEMs cater to multiple OSes. Several system integrators lurk on the Red Hat AMD64 list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list
I also mentioned decade-old ASL recently as shipping CentOS as an additional option to Fedora Core and RHEL: http://www.aslab.com
I'm only interested in i386 architecture, by the way.
Since Dell doesn't ship AMD on its servers, it makes little difference.
Although I wouldn't put more than 1-2GiB RAM in the servers. If you need more than 2GiB, I'd be looking towards AMD.
Thanks to everyone for the responses. When I said i386, I misused it--what I really meant to say was "PC-Style", as in, not Sparc or MIPS or whatever. AMD64 would be fine too, although in this case I don't really need the power.
I'll look into ASL. They may not sell exactly what I'm looking for in this case (a low-end, tower form factor server) but they look pretty cool in general.
Thanks, Matt