Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is using on this box?
I've got one on the way, and I'm hoping to use centos as the 'host' OS for several virtual machines (some of them Windows pigs), running vmware server.
some of the specifics in case they are relevant: Single Xeon Quad Core E5310 processor, 1066mHz fsb 16 gigabytes DDR2 667mHz ram Dell Perc 5/i raid controller, configured for raid 1 Dual 146gb SAS drives Intel Pro/1000PT dual port PCIe nic
Any and all input is appreciated!
Gordon
Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is using on this box?
I've got one on the way, and I'm hoping to use centos as the 'host' OS for several virtual machines (some of them Windows pigs), running vmware server.
I'm not 100% sure, but that looks a lot like the 2 2900's I just fired up.
For various reasons, I don't have access to dmesg on either of them at the moment, but I will say that CentOS 4.4 x86_64 runs well on them, and my dual Xeon boxes show in top as having 8 cpu's (0-7).
I'm only running 6GB RAM on one of them, and 2GB on the other, but the PERC 5/i in RAID 1 or the beefier PERC controller in full RAID 10 with 8 300GB SAS drives works like a champ with CentOS.
Nothing more complicated to do than set partitions, passwords, and distribution options during installation, and you don't even have to do all that..
Peter
On Saturday 20 January 2007 01:46, Gordon McLellan wrote:
Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is using on this box?
The 2950 works perfectly with Centos-4.4 (I've only ever used x86_64 though). The addon intel NIC might need the 4.4 kernel but the basic 2950 even works with 4.3.
As for chipset Dell uses the workstation flavour (5000X), here's some lspci -tv output:
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub ... +-1c.0-[0000:04-05]----00.0-[0000:05]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet ... +-1e.0-[0000:10]----0d.0 ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 ... -1f.1 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
/Peter
Thank-you for the feedback Peter and Peter!
My box should be here yet this week, I'm less nervous now about getting it setup and cranking.
Gordon
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