Ok thanks guys. Looks like that's it then Regards Michael Knill
From: darricklegacy <dhart...@djhsolutions.com> Reply-To: AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 2:20 pm To: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>, AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Running Astlinux on a dedicated server Hi Michael, I would just go for VMware. As Lonnie mention, ESXi Hypervisor is free and supported on that hardware. Makes it super flexible to move to different hardware in the future. AstLinux runs well on VMware. Darrick ________________________________ From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 12:30 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Running Astlinux on a dedicated server Hi Michael, Personally, I would start with a VM hypervisor, the basic VMware ESXi is free isn't it ? You know that will work and gives you additional flexibility. The hardware is still dedicated. Others can chime in... Lonnie > On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:45 PM, Michael Knill > <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
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