IBM x-series servers and Debian [was: RE: Why are company's not certifying Debian?]
Rishi,
We use stacks of IBM x-series servers, notably x33# for our 1ru boxes, and
x34# for 2ru - when more disk is required on-board.
Anyways, Debian works fine on these boxes. However, with the new ones, you
need a custom bootfloppy or CD-ROM to handle the Fusion MPT device (x33#),
or ServerRAID controllers (if purchased with x34#). There are even tools to
monitor the status of each: ipssend (serveraid), and cfg1030 (Fusion MPT).
Feel free to nag IBM about Debian support though. They could always make it
easier to port .rpm's to .deb's, or even provide them in the first place!
I can provide you with 2.4.x series kernel config files that will build a <
1.3MB kernel to boot recent x-series.
Cheers,
Martin Foster
Systems Engineer
Pacific Internet (Australia) Pty Ltd
w: http://www.pacific.net.au
e: martin_foster@pacific.net.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Rishi [mailto:rishi.forums@gmail.com]
Sent: 30-Oct-04 16:20
To: Alvin Oga
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian?
> the server you buy, is herein "blessed/certified to work with debian"
> - see the incompatibility list as what was previously
> posted for what is known NOT to work
Hi Alvin,
joking apart. :-) .. really what I meant was once I tried to install
Debian Woody on an HP server and it was unable to do so ... meaning...
it did not have the SCSI controller driver to install the OS on the
HDD. However, with Red Hat, I was able to download an RPM which
contained the SCSI drivers for it load at startup.
In the same way right now I was hoping to buy this server and use the
built in features like Hardware RAID and Mobile / pager notification
when disk fails.
Will these features be supported? I have not had a look at this
hardware and thus can't try it out. I need to find out as much
information about it from forums and websites before I place the
order.
Anyway I'm considering trashing the idea of hardware RAID and go for
an Assembled 1 U Rack Server with two 80 GB IDE hard disks. On which I
Will use the second disk for backups.
Thanks for the help though.
Regards
--
Rishi
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