<div>We set up a Dell PE 6800 with Perc5 and an PV MD1000 running RedHat Enterprise 4. It was a piece of cake to configure with RAID 1+0. We had a problem a couple months in; the partition information got wiped out during a kernel upgrade and we had to rebuild the entire array from backups (nightmare), but we don't think the array was the issue there.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad Bartram</b> <<a href="mailto:brad.bartram@gmail.com">brad.bartram@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The perc 5/i (the integrated controller) was recognized fine on my new PowerEdge 1900's by CentOS 4.something_or_other
. Unfortunately, I need the non-integrated model to use the power vault. It's good to know that it comes down to being controller dependent rather than being a general pain with the powervault itself. <br><br>Thanks
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<div><span class="e" id="q_113209c780ae483a_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Musone</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mmusone@shatterit.com" target="_blank">
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">The key from my experience with the dell perc controllers is to make sure you've got a driver that recognizes the controller.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">I've had to make my own boot/install disks for just about every distribution because they are not built into the standard boot images.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">If you've got the controller recognized, it should be cake, but I haven't ever hooked up that specific powervault so don't quote me..</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">Mark</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nflug-bounces@nflug.org" target="_blank">nflug-bounces@nflug.org</a>
[mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nflug-bounces@nflug.org" target="_blank"> nflug-bounces@nflug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brad Bartram<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:20 AM
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<p>Hey guys;<br><br>Does anyone here have any experience connecting a Dell DM1000 (powervault) external storage array to a dell poweredge using the perc5/e card and centos (or really any linux flavor)?<br><br>I'm interested in specifically any gotchas or conflicts you ran into. Was it pretty out of the box in terms of setting things up or did it just not work at all?
<br><br>Any info anyone has would be great.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Brad</p></span></div></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" target="_blank">
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