Re: dell 6850

[Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org>]

On 01/03/2008 08:12 PM, Chris Parker wrote:
> I just recently got a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with 14 disk array and
> 132t Tape library.  Does anyone have any experience with this server?

The 6850 should "just work" with Etch.  If you are using >4G RAM, you 
might consider using the amd64 flavor.  I don't spend a whole lot of 
time in testing/unstable land, but I would be surprised if there were 
any major installer problems.

> Are there any issues/problems to be aware of?

It's a power-hungry beast..  ;)  but will be a faithful workhorse.

> An Oracle database will be run on it.  What would be a recommended
> config?

The only issue I have ever run into with Oracle is an installer abend if 
I there was smaller than 2xRAM swap space - although there is a bypass 
on that config check in the installer somewhere.

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Kind Regards,
Michael Shuler