[CentOS] About addition of hardware and kernel

Wed Mar 10 20:14:50 UTC 2010
Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net>

------- Original message -------
> From: Jose Luis Marin Perez <jolumape_al at hotmail.com>
> Sent: 10.3.'10,  21:07
>
> Dear Sirs
>
> I have a ML370 G4 server with 1 CPU Intel (R) Xeon (TM) 3.60GHz and 2GB 
> of RAM with operating system CentOS 4.7 and kernel 2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp
>
> We have acquired 1 CPU and 2 GB of RAM additional to improve the 
> functioning of the server, my question is whether the current kernel can 
> support the addition of hardware or if I need a new kernel or install any 
> additional software.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jose Luis

Should work flawlessl after installing the additional CPU and memory; maybe 
you want to check the server vendor's support pages for BIOS upgrades, 
there may be newer versions. As you have to take the machine out of service 
anyways, this is a good time to check this, too.

(OTOH: Never touch an running system, so if it finds all the memory and CPU 
installed additionally and there's nothing noted in the BIOS changelog, you 
can ignore it.)

HTH,

Timo