[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus wrote: > 1. SCSI Drives (2x18.2) > LVM or Manual Partition ? Partitioning a scsi the same as ide ? Do i > need extra drivers for this? >
In my experience, LVM is almost an absolute necessity for most enterprise servers, as is a file system that can be resized without unmounting. ReiserFS can do it, as can XFS and JFS, but last I heard, this was still impossible on ext3. With LVM, a resizable filesystem, and a hardware RAID array that allows one to add and remove discs on the fly, one can very easily slap a disc into the machine, add the new disc into the volume group, grow the logical volume, and resize the filesystem, immediately adding more free space, all without ever rebooting or otherwise stopping any running processes on the system. Neat, ain't it? Without a resizable filesystem, it's a lot less useful, but still way, way more flexible than the fixed partitioning schemes most people wind up getting stuck with. If you're becoming an enterprise admin, I would strongly recommend that you study how LVM works if you don't already understand it. You probably won't need extra drivers for the SCSI controller if you're using one of the enterprise GNU/Linux distributions such as RHEL or SLES. > 2. RAID or notRAID > Should i configure it ? This is really my first time to configure a > server grade machine. > I imagine you'll want hardware RAID if you have it, especially if this is supposed to be an enterprise server running 24x7 with no downtime acceptable. > 3. Linux Flavor ? > This is a machine that will be used for "Enterprise" material. > I ve been using Fedora, but what distro would be the best ? > CentOS, or if you can afford it, RHEL or SLES. I've explained in the past when either of these two expensive "enterprise" distros might be needed, but in a nutshell, they would not be better than the gratis CentOS distribution unless (1) you want the support contract that goes with them, or (2) you are trying to run finicky proprietary software like Oracle (in which case you won't get any help running it without official RHEL or SLES installed). -- Supporting world peace through Nuclear Pacification. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
