Michael, Also... Those Dell's often use Broadcom NIC's, which we may or may not enable in the kernel.
If the Dell's hardware requires kernel RAID drivers, that could be a problem. Lonnie > On Mar 22, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > You covered the correct answers quite well :-) > > But, for the bare metal case... > The SAS drives might be a problem, not sure. > > The Dell BIOS must support "Legacy" (not UEFI) boot. > > Lonnie > > > >> On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Michael Knill >> <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> I'm looking at running Astlinux on a dedicated DC based blade server and >> wondering if there are any glaring reasons why it wont work before I go >> through the setup. >> I realise this has been discussed before and the outcome was to run it >> inside a VM on the server but I would rather avoid installing this if I >> don't need to. >> And I also realise that a VPS is cheaper and better as I can snapshot it >> regularly but for some of my high end use cases, there is nothing like a >> dedicated server for guaranteed performance and I am looking to build >> redundancy across Data Centres. >> >> The specs are: >> Dell PowerEdge M610 >> 4 Core Intel Xeon L5630 - 2.13Ghz >> 4G RAM >> 2 x 146G SAS in RAID1 >> >> Thanks all. >> >> Regards >> Michael Knill >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
