The IBM Bladecenter is one of the worst abominations I have ever come across. I can see it being a web commerce site in a box, but other that that the thing is a boat anchor. Their Dlink switches are absolute garbage, after 9 upgrades I only have to reboot them once a month now. We tried the OEM Cisco switch, they gave me bad hardware, since their support people didn't know a frame from a packet they were unable to resolve it. Finally we sent the Cisco's back. Our rep finally tells us they are coming out with ethernet pass through, which we purchased. I pray that these work. The management station hangs about once every 2 months as well. Then only thing I have ever come across that compares to this POS is Sun's E10k, the memory latency rendered it useless as well. I am also perplexed how many people got sucked in on these, they where ripped to shreds on slash dot, the over subscription with 4 ports is more than 3 to 1, and qos is only of any use up to 4 queues with the Notrel hardware. Also their ROI numbers are a joke, ( I am not even considering the 150 or so man hours to get it to work at all, at 125$ a pop that pays for 4 loaded 345's) once you add the whole enchillada up, it is much cheaper to use 345's even with 14 blades in a chassis. I also have a hard time putting anything critical on a box that uses Toshiba laptop hard drives and doesn't have serial console. I guess if one doesn't need serial consoles, and real local disk IO and network IO is may be a good solution, but to me its a boat anchor. Sorry for ranting, but I needed this, just got off a bloody battle with a moron vendor who had no clue what a don't fragment flag is. They rolled out a whole bunch of Solaris patches that appear to hard code the DF flag to set. Ted On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:37 -0500, Phillip_James at gardencitygroup.com wrote: > thanks > > > Phillip James > System Administrator > The Garden City Group, Inc. > 105 Maxess Road > Melville, NY 11747-3836 > Phone: (631) 470-5044 > Fax: (631) 940-6561 > E-mail: Phillip.James at GardenCityGroup.com > ==================================================== > This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the use of > the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is > confidential, privileged or legally protected. Any unauthorized use or > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender > by return e-mail message and delete all copies of the original > communication. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > |---------+----------------------------> > | | Matt Shields | > | | <mattboston at gmail| > | | .com> | > | | | > | | 11/24/2004 03:36 | > | | PM | > | | Please respond to| > | | Matt Shields | > |---------+----------------------------> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | | > | To: "phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com" <phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com> | > | cc: centos at caosity.org | > | Subject: Re: [Centos] installing CentOS on the IBM BladeCenter | > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > Strange, w/ RHEL3ES it didn't require any driver disks. I just used > the 4 ISO's. I'll have to see if I have a spare blade that I could > try CentOS on, but I believe the rest are all being used by our > Windows admins. > > > -- > Matt Shields > http://masnetworks.biz/ > http://www.caosity.org/ > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:28:32 -0500, phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com > <phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com> wrote: > > > > I got RHEL 3ES installed but the do not what to buy entittlements for all > > my servers. So I tryed to install CentOS but it did not work. > > > > I did a "linux dd" were dd = RHEL3ES dd disk for the BladeCenter but it > did > > not work. > > > > > > > > Phillip James > > System Administrator > > The Garden City Group, Inc. > > 105 Maxess Road > > Melville, NY 11747-3836 > > Phone: (631) 470-5044 > > Fax: (631) 940-6561 > > E-mail: Phillip.James at GardenCityGroup.com > > ==================================================== > > This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the use of > > the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is > > confidential, privileged or legally protected. Any unauthorized use or > > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > > received this communication in error, please immediately notify the > sender > > by return e-mail message and delete all copies of the original > > communication. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > > > |---------+----------------------------> > > | | Matt Shields | > > | | <mattboston at gmail| > > | | .com> | > > | | | > > | | 11/24/2004 02:50 | > > | | PM | > > | | Please respond to| > > | | Matt Shields | > > |---------+----------------------------> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > | > | > > | To: "phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com" > <phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com> > | > > | cc: centos at caosity.org > | > > | Subject: Re: [Centos] installing CentOS on the IBM BladeCenter > | > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > > > > > > > A couple months ago I installed RHEL3ES on 3 blades on each of 2 > > eSeries Blade Centers. You can even use the Blade Center's web > > interface to remotely view the screen. If you have the media in the > > system you can install it remotely. > > > > -- > > Matt Shields > > http://masnetworks.biz/ > > http://www.caosity.org/ > > > > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:40:08 -0500, phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com > > <phillip_james at gardencitygroup.com> wrote: > > > Has any one install CentOS 3.3 or early on a IBM BladeCenter eServers > > > (HS20) > > > > > > Phillip James > > > System Administrator > > > The Garden City Group, Inc. > > > 105 Maxess Road > > > Melville, NY 11747-3836 > > > Phone: (631) 470-5044 > > > Fax: (631) 940-6561 > > > E-mail: Phillip.James at GardenCityGroup.com > > > ==================================================== > > > This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the use > of > > > the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is > > > confidential, privileged or legally protected. 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