On 6/13/07, George H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm checking out how I could use the ServeRAID-6M card on blade servers for clustering. I am really trying to go for these self-fencing resources. I read the info on setting up ServeRAID on the HA website but I am interested in how the hardware would be setup. The ServeRAID-6M card can only connect to 2 disk. Are they both external disks or internal ? Do I assume I have 1 ServeRAID-6M card per-blade server or more ? I am not at all familiar with IBM Blade servers nor do I have access to anyone who is willing to help me out. Is there a place on IBM where I can find out how the hardware is setup for ServerRAID-6M on a blade server.. and how I would use that setup for Linux-HA ? A few more things, the link going to the IBM Site in the "Create Utilities CD section 3 is not working from this page <http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStarted/ServeRAIDHardwareConfiguration>
Hi, The 6M card has 2 channels available. These are usable using internal or external connectors. But for a cluster you will only use the external connectors because of the shared storage that both cards need to be connected to. I also see from your mail that you are planning to use Blades for this. That will be a issue. Standard Blades do not have a normal PCI slot where you can add the 6M into. Add according to the IBM ServerProven website the 6M is not certified for any Blade. So if you want to use Blades you will either have to use FC and SAN or network replication like DRDB. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds) _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
