Hmm thanks Lonnie. Not looking good so far ☹
Do you think I should give it a try and see how it goes or just go straight for
VM?
Regards
Michael Knill
On 23/3/19, 10:21 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
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
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