[CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

Tue Sep 16 11:54:38 UTC 2008
Spook ZA <spookza at gmail.com>

Has anyone got Dell OpenManage running on CentOS so one can monitor the
server components via their web interface and via snmp?

Regards,
  Andrew.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sorin at Gmail <sorin.srbu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lunix1618 <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:45 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I am running Dell 2950 III and no issue with hardware recognization of
> >>> CentOs (5.2 Final)
> >>>
> >>> The one small thing is I can not extend the RAID volume because at the
> >>> beginning time we only have 03 HDD now when we buy new HDD we recognize
> >>> that RAID controller (PERC 6/i) doesn't support add new HDD to existing
> >>> volume :( so only a choice is rebuild it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Fast reply, thx. 8-)
> >>
> >> No hw-issues sounds good!
> >>
> >> Do you mean extending the array from within CentOS or at firmware level
> at
> >> boot-time?
> >>
> > for both, because the RAID controller doesn't support. that is not
> > CentOS issue.
>
> Ah, ok, Thx for the clarification.
>
>
> >> I doubt however this'd be an issue with us, since the machine comes
> fully
> >> loaded from start with eight disks and we're not likely to add any more,
> >> new or bigger, except in the case of a disk-failure.
> >>
> > Yeah, you rite and lucky :)
>
> I'm bound to be lucky after all the bad luck I've had recently with
> hardware...
> 8-}
>
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