On 12/4/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > > I'm a fairly experienced RH and Fedora user and admin looking to try > > CentOS for the first time. I have lots of experience with Dell servers > > and I'd like to stick with them. > > > > Although I'm sure it's not always strictly enforced, Dell claims that > > it won't provide warranty hardware support on servers installed with > > an un-Dell-supported OS (basically, anything other Windows, RH, and > > Suse). Are other CentOS admins successful in getting Dell to support > > their hardware? How does it work--do you just tell them it's RH? > > > > Also, any recommendations for which Dell PERC or Dell SATA RAID > > adapters can I expect to work nicely with CentOS? > > > > 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. I'm only interested in i386 architecture, by > > the way. > ---- > Dell is going to warranty the hardware - it doesn't have anything to do > with which OS you are using. You can't expect them to support an OS that > they don't support but I would bet that if the software issue is > something that wouldn't change from RHEL/CentOS - they wouldn't miss a > beat. For the record, that is the opposite of what they told me. They only support the hardware when you're using a supported OS. Of course, you wouldn't have to tell them that you're using CentOS. So I was wondering if people had gotten away with that pretty regularly.