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

[Dan R. <da...@ry...>]

Good point.  I had this problem on very similar Dell (R610) hardware.  The easy fix was to add an Intel dual NIC dedicated to the AstLinux VM.Dan
-------- Original message --------From: Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> Date: 3/22/19  7:21 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <ast...@li...> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Running Astlinux on a dedicated server 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 lis...@li...https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-usersDonations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr....