yeah, with 2000 servers split between CentOS and RHEL and 700 PE1850 and PE1950 Dell servers, I haven't seen any differences betweeen CentOS and RHEL in any of the Dell OMSA stuff or online BIOS flashes or anything...
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Aug 15, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> There have been only two times so far, when I've had something work >> on RHEL >> and not work on CentOS. And I only remember one of them. If you >> have a >> failed disk on a Dell server with a PERC array controller, the only >> way to >> replace the disk without rebooting and using the BIOS PERC management >> interface is to use OpenManage, and that unfortunately has RHEL >> proprietary >> code in it. So always buy the genuine RHEL for a Dell server with a >> PERC >> card. > > THat's not true, there are OMSA Yum repositories that work just fine > with CentOS 4 and 5 (as well as Scientific Linux, Fedora, Oracle > Enterprise Linux, and SLES). Just take a look at the 'bootstrap' > script they provide to install the YUM repository: > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/bootstrap.cgi > (More info here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/#yum ) > > The software on anything other than RHEL isn't officially "supported" > but I've had very good support from Dell when dealing with faulty RAID > hardware when I was running a RHEL-rebuild. I've used OpenManage to > track down a failed disk, remove it, add the replacement and delete > the foreign config off the replacement disk, all on a non-RHEL OS. > > -- > Jonathan Billings <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
