Thank you, Howard for some lovely corporate spin.
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive
use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage
solutions to limit drive support to only those drives
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:47 -0700, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
Mark Watts wrote:
OK, here's what I have:
- Running system with a single-disk RAID-0 (disk 0:0:0)
- Spare disk of same model/capacity, from another PERC5 (disk 0:0:1)
I want to be able to get into a state where I can
Irritatingly, a reboot of the server has made the foreign state go
away. What's annoying is even removing/reinserting the drive didn't
clear this, only a reboot did.
Mark.
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On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 16:17 -0600, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive use of
Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage solutions to limit
drive support to only those drives which have been qualified by the
to the list this time (sorry Eric ;-) ...
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:15:55PM -0600, Eric Rostetter scribbled
in RE: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers:
Quoting howard_sho...@dell.com:
In the case of Dell's PERC RAID controllers, we began informing
customers when a
I have PowerEdge Server with DELL certified Seagate harddisk.
I bought it from DELL.
The DELL certified Seagate harddisk has lock problem 1/320 probability
every power-on spinup.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931NewLang=enHilite=
Error: Missing Dependency: dell_ie_module(MPTLSI_U320) is needed by package
LSI2032_ven_0x1000_dev_0x0030_subven_0x1000_subdev_0x50c0-a02-1.noarch
(dell-omsa-indep)
Any idea where I can get dell_ie_module(MPTLSI_U320).
Ah, this is for the LSI 2032 U320 SCSI controller. The update for
Reminds me of my campus' IT urban folklore about the memory upgrade in an
old GX360 big iron that used to run here - where IBM sold campus the upgrade
and sent a team to flip the DIP switch to ENABLE it since it was already
installed... this is just as predatory.
Have a IBM Z890 here and
Quoting Ronan Mullally ro...@iol.ie:
Dell is no NetApp. Having used solutions from both, there's a world of
a difference. You are kidding yourself if you think you're on a nearby
practice ground, let alone in the same ballpark.
Dell does sell enterprise storage solutions like NetApp (some
Quoting Mirosław Jaworski m...@ikp.pl:
We anxiously wait for further lock-ins.
I had a slippery slope rant in my last email, but I decided to remove it
before sending... See you think a bit alike...
The funny thing is, when we ran DEC and SUN stuff, all Dell ever told us
was why we should
On 2/10/2010 12:20 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote:
Quoting Mirosław Jaworskim...@ikp.pl:
We anxiously wait for further lock-ins.
I had a slippery slope rant in my last email, but I decided to remove it
before sending... See you think a bit alike...
The funny thing is, when we ran DEC
Quoting s.mishima s.mish...@gmail.com:
I have PowerEdge Server with DELL certified Seagate harddisk.
I bought it from DELL.
The DELL certified Seagate harddisk has lock problem 1/320 probability
every power-on spinup.
Yeah, I bought two of those systems too. ;) Again, thought about writing
Greetings
I've been stewing on this topic for a while; and waiting/hoping that someone
from Dell would chime in with their perspective. Now that Howard has
stepped in to present the company position, it is time for me to give some
feedback so that the Dell representatives following the thread
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Bond Masuda bond.mas...@jlbond.com wrote:
however, bottom line is this: Dell is trying to increase profits and
they see this lock-in as a potential method to achieve that goal. if
Dell customers want to see this change, you'll just need to show Dell
that it
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Bond Masuda bond.mas...@jlbond.com wrote:
however, bottom line is this: Dell is trying to increase profits and
they see this lock-in as a potential method to achieve that goal. if
Dell customers want to see this change, you'll just need to show Dell
that it
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, William Warren wrote:
On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive
use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage solutions
to limit drive support to only those drives
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote:
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, William Warren wrote:
On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive
use of Dell drives. It is common practice in
Hi, One of my PE2950 (iii) servers is complaining of ecc correctable errors so
i'd like to swap the memory before they become non-correctable.. Unfortunately
the server is at our remote site so i'd like to get the staff there to do the
swap (it doesn't have dell memory in mainly to the
On Wed, February 10, 2010 12:27, Joe Gooch wrote:
-Original Message- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge- boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:37 AM To:
Seriously, some of us used to re-flash some of the older LSI
John Heim writes:
I hope this is not too far off topic (maybe its considered on topic [I
hope]).
Makes a nice change from the third-party drives thread :-)
I think we can get a machine with a quad core, 32 Gb of RAM, and 300 Gb disk
for under $6000. But I'm confused about disk. I would
Quoting John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu:
to go) and mysql. We have databases for spamassassin bayesian rules,
drupal, moodle, imp (webmail), and our own private data. Our private data
is pretty small with the biggest table containing under 10,000 records. We
do have a table with about 4,00
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:35:06PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
for under $6000. But I'm confused about disk. I would think disk pspeed
would be fairly important. How can I configure a machine with a fast disk?
What are my options from Dell in that regard?
Get the fastest RAID controller
This is perhaps off-topic too, but I have always wondered...
You might also want to look at getting a hardware RAID card or
daughterboard like the PERC-6i - these will allow you to set up a
RAID-10/50/60 that will stripe all data between two drives, giving you
another twofold speed
Some of you may be interested to read this:
http://yo61.com/dell-omsa-on-centos-5-4-x86_64-no-controllers-found-error.html
Let me know if it works for you.
R.
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If the power fails to the system, or the kernel crashes, the OS level
cache will never be written to disk and data may be lost. In the event of a
power failure, the battery backed RAID cache will be written to disk when power
is restored.
This allows processes that like to
It's about write caching. Fsync() can't return (and thus, e.g., your sql
transaction can't return committed) until the data is on durable storage
(that's what the D in ACID means). Battery-backed cache on the controller
counts, because if you pull the plug, the data will still get to disk.
Please, email your Dell customer rep and complain about this!
I did.
I contacted my Dell customer rep and he forwarded my complain to the
product support group. He said they may re-evaluate things if lots of
people complain. (I can hope...)
We don't have the Dell R710's, and I still
Hi,
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Adam Nielsen wrote:
This is perhaps off-topic too, but I have always wondered...
You might also want to look at getting a hardware RAID card or
daughterboard like the PERC-6i - these will allow you to set up a
RAID-10/50/60 that will stripe all data between two
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Please, email your Dell customer rep and complain about this!
I did.
I contacted my Dell customer rep and he forwarded my complain to the
product support group. He said they may re-evaluate things if lots of
people complain. (I can hope...)
If the power fails to the system, or the kernel crashes, the OS level
cache will never be written to disk and data may be lost. In the
event of a power failure, the battery backed RAID cache will be
written to disk when power is restored. This allows processes that
like to confirm their data
Quoting Adam Nielsen adam.niel...@uq.edu.au:
Ahh, okay, so it's not there for pure write speed as such, it's there so
that software can be told yes, the data you just wrote is now on disk
no matter what even though the actual disk write may happen at a later
time.
Yes, all true. But it is
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:36:54AM -0500, J. Epperson wrote:
And UPSs! We must ensure that we have appropriately proprietarily
conditioned power for our proprietary servers. And no third party
replacement batteries either. Lord only knows
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