On Friday 08 October 2010, David Hubbard wrote:
> Hi all, I've got an R900 with four six-core cpu's that
> will be doing Symantec NetBackup backing up and
> de-duplication duties over ten gig via a Cisco 4900M
> so it's going to need to be a fiber card, short range.
>
> Any recommendations on best
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> Well, that's a nice flamebait if I ever saw one...
>
> These "enterprise" distros are generally very bloated. Who wants Bluetooth
> support and a desktop environment on a server? You need to do a lot af
> deselecting when installing RHEL/CentOS t
On Thursday 26 August 2010, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Hi there, I am testing some R510s /w PERC H700 that I am going to be using
> for storage systems.
>
> I am using a very basic benchmark (hdparm -tT /dev/sdb) to get a relative
> performance number between different disks (it doesn't have to be real
>
On Thursday 29 July 2010, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Has anyone done any testing for the H200 for various Linux distributions
> yet?
We've done some testing on 64-bit CentOS-5.4 and 5.5. It "just works" (as a
sas-controller, raid is only 1/0) and we got quite good performance (aggreate
software raid0
On Friday 09 July 2010, Tim Small wrote:
> Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> > We've seen both Hitachi and Seagate 2T drives from Dell.
>
> Great, thanks. Any ideas what model and firmware numbers (preferably
> hdparm -I or otherwise cat /proc/scsi/scsi or lsscsi etc.).
Behin
On Thursday 08 July 2010, Tim Small wrote:
> Blake Hudson wrote:
> > Tim Small wrote:
> >> I know they've previously been shipping Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB drives,
> >> but I've no idea which vendor/model 2TB drives they're using?
> >
> > I recently purchased a couple Dell branded 2TB SATA drives.
On Friday 21 May 2010, Markus Kovero wrote:
> Latest "fix" for issue is to disable C-states under processor configuration
> in bios. this also fixes problems in other OS's (eg. in solaris) Dell has
> been aware of the issue for months without real fix, just workarounds.
Note that disabling c-state
On Monday 19 April 2010, Fabio Catunda wrote:
> Hi,
You're missing two steps below.
> I have a "PowerEdge 1950" with a "PERC 5/i Integrated" controller on
> "RAID-1" with two "232.25GB" disks.
>
> I need some more disk space, so I bought two 2TB disks.
>
> What I would like to know is if it's pos
On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Murphy, Brian S CTR USAF AFSPC 83 NOS/Det 4 wrote:
> Ah - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/updates/i386/RPMS/ has
>
> kernel-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm
> and
> kernel-smp-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm
>
> both dated 4 Nov 2009 - looks good.
>
> Is there some way to know how that tra
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, John Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:36:54AM -0500, J. Epperson wrote:
> > And UPSs! We must ensure that we have appropriately proprietarily
> > conditioned power for our proprietary servers. And no third party
> > replacement batteries either. Lord only
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, William Warren wrote:
> On 2/9/2010 5:17 PM, howard_sho...@dell.com wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your comments and feedback regarding exclusive
> > use of Dell drives. It is common practice in enterprise storage solutions
> > to limit drive support to only those d
On Saturday 06 February 2010, Stroller wrote:
...
> I just find it completely stunning that Dell, without some kind of a
> warning, would sell me a "SATA" computer that doesn't accept standard
> SATA drives.
I agree that this is the worst part. In truth it's not a server that takes
SATA drive
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, patrick_b...@dell.com wrote:
> By Console Redirection we mean serial port console redirection. The
> interface works fine over the iDRAC virtual KVM. This was decided since the
> Lifecycle Controller uses a graphical interface.
At first your description seemed great b
> > On our new R410, randomly when eth0 is pushing more than 30Mbps of
> > traffic
> > the interface sometimes times out and shuts off:
...
> > This morning I found this post suggesting adding "options bnx2
> > disable_msi=1
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf"
Do report back and tell us if this fixed your
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, mark robare wrote:
...
> I just got a 2850 and am running ubuntu server 9.10
>
> I want to build a more efficante kernel
In general there's not much to be gained. In some specific cases it may be
worth the effort. What exacly do you think is very ineffective right
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