Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Ryan Kohler
I've had two 64 core R815's for two months and have had no problems with them running CentOS 6.3. Just remember that these are bulldozer's and that for each processor of "16" cores, there are 16 integer cores and 8 shared floating point cores. I would love to get my hands on the sandy bridge r620s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:24:55 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > No problem, goes nicely, *EXCEPT* that it demands that the NICs be > em1, etc, *not* eth0, etc. You can install CentOS with biosdevname=0 Make sure you enter it when booting from the installation CD (or pxeboot, kickstart, ...) Brgds

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Surya Saha
Thank you for the feedback. I also have 6.3 running smoothly on a 2850 (up till now). I don't expect any major issues with R815's but just checking in case somebody found otherwise. -Surya On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Steve Thompson wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Surya

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Surya Saha wrote: > >> Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell >> Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks > > I don't have any R815's, but I have run CentOS 6.3 on a variety of other > Dell hardware (PE29

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Surya Saha wrote: > Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell > Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks I don't have any R815's, but I have run CentOS 6.3 on a variety of other Dell hardware (PE2900, R410, R710, etc) with no issues

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/16/2012 02:56 PM, Surya Saha wrote: > Hi, > > Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell > Poweredge R815 > servers? How was your experience? Thanks > > -Surya > I have run "CentOS-5.6 to 5.8" and "CentOS-6.0 to 6.3" on several Dell 710, Dell 720, and Dell 810 serve

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Surya Saha
Very true :-) Thank you for the links, Alex. The matrix overview was useful. -Surya On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am 16.10.2012 21:56, schrieb Surya Saha: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell >>> Poweredge R

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread m . roth
Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 16.10.2012 21:56, schrieb Surya Saha: >> Hi, >> >> Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell >> Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks > > Dell Poweredge R815 isn't new. That's the 11th generation, superseded by > the 12th gen

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread m . roth
Surya Saha wrote: > > Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell > Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks > No problem, goes nicely, *EXCEPT* that it demands that the NICs be em1, etc, *not* eth0, etc. mark ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 16.10.2012 21:56, schrieb Surya Saha: > Hi, > > Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell > Poweredge R815 > servers? How was your experience? Thanks > > -Surya Dell Poweredge R815 isn't new. That's the 11th generation, superseded by the 12th generation like R820.

[CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-16 Thread Surya Saha
Hi, Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks -Surya -- Surya Saha Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University, NY, USA http://www.linkedin.com/in/suryasaha