Ian Forde <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 PM: >> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running >> dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). >> >> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with >> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this. >> >> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller >> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs. >> >> Any feedback on this is appreciated. > > I don't forsee any problems. I'm running CentOS 5.2 on a 2950 III and > omreport installs fine without any problems. I can see the RAID array > and monitor via the Nagios omreport plugins (search nagios-exchange for > them). Onboard NICs shouldn't be a problem either... Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm split... This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try to install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support issue? Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* could happen though... Kernel panics??
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