Hi, On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:26 +0200, Sorin at Gmail wrote: > Ian Forde <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 PM: > > >> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running > >> dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). > >> > >> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with > >> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this. > >> > >> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller > >> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs. > >> > >> Any feedback on this is appreciated. > > > > I don't forsee any problems. I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and > > omreport installs fine without any problems. I can see the RAID array > > and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for > > them). Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either... > > Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old > side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm > split... > > This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to > install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue? > Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen > though... Kernel panics?? I'm running RHEL5 and CentOS 5 on many PE 2850's. As long as you use the Dell PERC4 or PERC5 controllers all will work well. Onboard NICs work fine too. Regards, Michel