Thanks Brian Mathis and Karanbir. Hope people learn email etiquette from you guys !! -Ranjan -----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 6:53 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Cent OS 5.5 Clustering and Support Hi Kumar On 04/01/2011 03:50 PM, Kumar, Ranjan wrote: > We are a Channel product team within LSI and we are trying to add Cent > OS 5.5 to our compatibility Matrix. We found out that LSI currently has > a relationship with CentOS for another project on the Internal Storage > division but not with the OS Certification team. We require some > information on CentOS which will help us plan the deliverables. And > considering the timelines we need to deliver at it will be great if > someone from CentOS can help us out in this regard. If anybody else also > can answer these in the mailing list, we would be grateful. The > questions that we have are as follows:- I am fairly sure that the CentOS Project does not have any relationship with LSI on any front ( internal storage or otherwise ). We have always encouraged vendors to speak with upstream ( Red Hat ) for things of this nature. However, being a non vendor driven project, there are still some options that you might be able to follow. The most promising one of which is self endorsement. > 1)Cluster Support : > *Does CentOS 5.5 provides native cluster support ? That would depend on what you imply by 'support'. Code components and resources needed to build something of this nature are included into the distribution. > 2)Does CentOS have any self Certification tool which allows OEMs/Vendors > to qualify the OS and post it in their compatibility matrix? No. On the other hand, we prefer that vendors do both: 1) Approach upstream for such certifications / testing etc 2) Self endorse CentOS from their perspective with their own toolchains ( which, in your case would be LSI endorsing CentOS as a supported platform ). If there is a reasonable need to do so, we could potentially host a resource that allows third party vendors to document their certification / endorsement; but at the moment there is nothing of that nature on .centos.org > One we start our qualification, we might need some help in resolving > issues/defects on CentOS. Can we open a channel or Point of contact who > will be able to help us out with such issues. http://bugs.centos.org/ is the best place to track something of this nature. Its possible that these things might change in the future, but at the moment this represents the state of play. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel