Re: [Astlinux-users] Running Astlinux on a dedicated server

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Michael,

You covered the correct answers quite well :-)

But, for the bare metal case...
The SAS drives might be a problem, not sure.

The Dell BIOS must support "Legacy" (not UEFI) boot.

Lonnie



> On Mar 22, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
> 
> Hi All
>  
> I'm looking at running Astlinux on a dedicated DC based blade server and wondering if there are any glaring reasons why it wont work before I go through the setup.
> I realise this has been discussed before and the outcome was to run it inside a VM on the server but I would rather avoid installing this if I don't need to.
> And I also realise that a VPS is cheaper and better as I can snapshot it regularly but for some of my high end use cases, there is nothing like a dedicated server for guaranteed performance and I am looking to build redundancy across Data Centres.
>  
> The specs are:
> Dell PowerEdge M610 
> 4 Core Intel Xeon L5630 - 2.13Ghz
> 4G RAM
> 2 x 146G SAS in RAID1
>  
> Thanks all.
>  
> Regards
> Michael Knill
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