I've been running OpenSolaris on my Dell Precision Workstation T7500 for 9 months, and it works great. It's my default desktop operating system, and I've had zero problems with hardware compatibility.
I also have installed EON 0.600 on my Dell PowerEdge T410 (not so different from your R510). A few words of caution: 1. Beware of the onboard controllers. The "RAID" controller on that motherboard only works in Windows; neither Linux nor OpenSolaris can recognize drives attached to it at all. So I was stuck running in "ATA" mode at the beginning, which is awful in terms of performance. 2. I'd also recommend avoiding the PERC cards, in particular since it makes drives attached to it impossible to transport to another system. Instead, I use the SAS 6i/R controller. That's built into the motherboard on the PW T7500, and I got one separately for the PE T410. That works well, and is completely fine with OpenSolaris. I'd recommend those, because then you can be sure to get the cabling from Dell (which in the case of the PowerEdge, was completely nonstandard). And if the card fails, they'll replace it ASAP, which isn't necessarily the case with other vendors' cards. So aside from the RAID controller and cabling issues on the PE T410, I've had nothing but good experiences in terms of Dell Precision workstations and PowerEdge servers, running OpenSolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
