Michel van Deventer <> scribbled on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:31 AM: >>>> 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. Do they vary in this particular series? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080917/3e21dc65/attachment-0004.bin>