Testing recommendations for new hardware

Greetings - I will be purchasing a new server within the next month (PE T610) that will be used as a Samba file server (and some additional functions) for a small office. It will be the primary storage server for the work of 8 staff members, running Centos 6. I have seen over the last few yea

Re: SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Nathan Hruby : > >> Is this configuration supported? > > No idea.  But try turning of SMART if you have it on.  Also you might > want to check for firmware upgrades. > > We've had some problems where SMART checks were tripping SAS dr

Re: SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

Quoting Nathan Hruby : > Is this configuration supported? No idea. But try turning of SMART if you have it on. Also you might want to check for firmware upgrades. We've had some problems where SMART checks were tripping SAS drives off-line. Doing a "/sbin/chkconfig smartd off" "fixed" the issu

SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

Hi! I have a number of Dell R410's with SAS 6/iR controllers running CentOS 5.5. These controllers are setup with no arrays on them -- we are using the controllers as simple SAS controllers for a specialized filesystem application. In this config the controller presents 4 disks to the system as

Re: Overview of management components?

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:33:47AM +0100, patrick_fisc...@dell.com wrote: > ITA: > - Discovery > - Inventory > - Alert Management > - Patch Management > - Reports > - easy to use if you start first time with SysMgmt Apps > - completely free > - requires Open Manage Server Administrator on each Serv