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

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

Michael,

Also...
Those Dell's often use Broadcom NIC's, which we may or may not enable in the kernel.

If the Dell's hardware requires kernel RAID drivers, that could be a problem.

Lonnie


> On Mar 22, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
> 
> 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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