On 03/08/2015 01:37 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I'm looking to replace our 8 year old IBM Express x3550 servers and
I'm
looking for recommendations.
They have hardware RAID 1 with 2x760GB drives, 4GB RAM and Xeon E5410
quad
core 2.33Ghz processor.
THe biggest problem here is that the server is too slow, so really any
modern
server would probably do to replace it. Dual power supplies are HW
RAID are
on my wants list though.
What I'm looking for is makes / models that play well with Linux. The
only
real problem I have with the IBMs is that the HW RAID was not supported
by
Linux. While I was able to configure it through the BIOS, and the RAID
worked
when needed, i.e. when a HDD died, I could not monitor the state via
Linux.
Other than that I don't have any odd requirements. It's just going to
be a
bog standard LAPP server.
I'm based in Leeds in the UK, so a UK based model would also be
required.
CHeers, Gary
Hi,
I can recomment IBM M4/M5 Series (now it's Lenovo). They are newer than
yours, they play well with CentOS/RHEL (got plenty installations). You
have IPMI/dual PSU/dual CPU.
The RAID is LSI, which is supported and you can monitor it with the
tools from LSI.
I am sure you can find many companies in UK, that offer this hardware.
Regards,
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