On Aug 15, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > There have been only two times so far, when I've had something work > on RHEL > and not work on CentOS. And I only remember one of them. If you > have a > failed disk on a Dell server with a PERC array controller, the only > way to > replace the disk without rebooting and using the BIOS PERC management > interface is to use OpenManage, and that unfortunately has RHEL > proprietary > code in it. So always buy the genuine RHEL for a Dell server with a > PERC > card.
THat's not true, there are OMSA Yum repositories that work just fine with CentOS 4 and 5 (as well as Scientific Linux, Fedora, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and SLES). Just take a look at the 'bootstrap' script they provide to install the YUM repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/bootstrap.cgi (More info here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/#yum ) The software on anything other than RHEL isn't officially "supported" but I've had very good support from Dell when dealing with faulty RAID hardware when I was running a RHEL-rebuild. I've used OpenManage to track down a failed disk, remove it, add the replacement and delete the foreign config off the replacement disk, all on a non-RHEL OS. -- Jonathan Billings <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
