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Re: [Astlinux-users] Running Astlinux on a dedicated server
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From: Lonnie A. <li...@lo...> - 2019-03-23 00:31:09
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Hi Michael, Personally, I would start with a VM hypervisor, the basic VMware ESXi is free isn't it ? You know that will work and gives you additional flexibility. The hardware is still dedicated. Others can chime in... Lonnie > On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:45 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote: > > Hmm thanks Lonnie. Not looking good so far ☹ > Do you think I should give it a try and see how it goes or just go straight for VM? > > Regards > Michael Knill > > On 23/3/19, 10:21 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...> wrote: > > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>> Ast...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >>> >>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr.... >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Ast...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr.... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Ast...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr.... |
