Hi All! The problem is that Ubuntu's installer has very poor support for setting up RAID during installation. We could set up the partitions and RAID using the console and then install, but that is going to be painful when doing a dist-upgrade.
Also, there is no support for Intel's firmware SWRaid implementation in Ubuntu. I've been through the forums etc and its all flaky at best. Fedora supports SWRaid, fakeraid, as well as Linux's own swraid, out of the box. Anyone has experience setting up Ubuntu on Intel Server Boards? Fedora is giving me pain on the graphics front, but that is immaterial with a server. If anything, it will discourage users from directly logging on the console, which is a good thing. Regards, Saurabh - Show quoted text - On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Dhanada Mishra <dhana...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are trying to configure a high end server for our thin-client lab and our > consultant advises us to go fr Fedora instead of Ubuntu. The reason is that > Ubuntu server operating system can not take advantage of all of the high end > capabilities of the hardware. Does any one have any experience in this and > advise us one way or the other. > > The configuration of the server is as follows and it will support 60 thin > clients. > > 1. Enterprise Server ES5500 > > Intel Server Board S5500BC > > Dual Xeon 5506 – Quad Core > > 8 GB DDR3 ECC RAM > > Dual 500 GB SATA Enterprise HDD > > ES55002855 > > Regards; > Dhanada > > -- CEO, Thinvent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. www.thinvent.in +91-99903-44885 -- Dhanada K. Mishra Human Development Foundation (HDF) www.hdf.ac.in Ph. 9437513080
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