Last week I asked if there was an accessible way to configure a PERC (accessible to the blind that is). Well, I have managed to boot from a grml CD, get speech started, and install the dellomsa debian port. To install the dellomsa port, you'd have to update the sources.listt file, then do an 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install dellomsa'.
I still intend to make a modified grml disk with dellomsa already installed. But don't hold your breath. [Probably no other blind people on this list anyway.) So now I can do a 'omreport storage vdisk'. The results are below. It looks as if Dell has already configured the RAID for me. My only remaining question is whether the below configuration is optimal for a database server. It says /dev/sda is RAID 1. That will be the OS. But /dev/sdb is RAID10. People here were recommending RAID 6. Should I change it? What about the other settings like read policy, write policy, and cache policy? List of Virtual Disks in the System Controller PERC 6/i Integrated (Embedded) ID : 0 Status : Ok Name : Virtual Disk 0 State : Ready Progress : Not Applicable Layout : RAID-1 Size : 136.13 GB (146163105792 bytes) Device Name : /dev/sda Type : SAS Read Policy : No Read Ahead Write Policy : Write Back Cache Policy : Not Applicable Stripe Element Size : 64 KB Disk Cache Policy : Disabled ID : 1 Status : Ok Name : Virtual Disk 1 State : Ready Progress : Not Applicable Layout : RAID-10 Size : 272.25 GB (292326211584 bytes) Device Name : /dev/sdb Type : SAS Read Policy : No Read Ahead Write Policy : Write Back Cache Policy : Not Applicable Stripe Element Size : 64 KB Disk Cache Policy : Disabled _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
