I'm looking to replace our 8 year old IBM Express x3550 servers and I'm looking for recommendations.
They have hardware RAID 1 with 2x760GB drives, 4GB RAM and Xeon E5410 quad core 2.33Ghz processor.
THe biggest problem here is that the server is too slow, so really any modern server would probably do to replace it. Dual power supplies are HW RAID are on my wants list though.
What I'm looking for is makes / models that play well with Linux. The only real problem I have with the IBMs is that the HW RAID was not supported by Linux. While I was able to configure it through the BIOS, and the RAID worked when needed, i.e. when a HDD died, I could not monitor the state via Linux.
Other than that I don't have any odd requirements. It's just going to be a bog standard LAPP server.
I'm based in Leeds in the UK, so a UK based model would also be required.
CHeers, Gary
On 03/08/2015 01:37 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I'm looking to replace our 8 year old IBM Express x3550 servers and I'm looking for recommendations.
They have hardware RAID 1 with 2x760GB drives, 4GB RAM and Xeon E5410 quad core 2.33Ghz processor.
THe biggest problem here is that the server is too slow, so really any modern server would probably do to replace it. Dual power supplies are HW RAID are on my wants list though.
What I'm looking for is makes / models that play well with Linux. The only real problem I have with the IBMs is that the HW RAID was not supported by Linux. While I was able to configure it through the BIOS, and the RAID worked when needed, i.e. when a HDD died, I could not monitor the state via Linux.
Other than that I don't have any odd requirements. It's just going to be a bog standard LAPP server.
I'm based in Leeds in the UK, so a UK based model would also be required.
CHeers, Gary
Hi,
I can recomment IBM M4/M5 Series (now it's Lenovo). They are newer than yours, they play well with CentOS/RHEL (got plenty installations). You have IPMI/dual PSU/dual CPU. The RAID is LSI, which is supported and you can monitor it with the tools from LSI. I am sure you can find many companies in UK, that offer this hardware.
Regards,
On Monday 03 August 2015 14:09:13 Todor Petkov wrote:
Hi,
I can recomment IBM M4/M5 Series (now it's Lenovo). They are newer than yours, they play well with CentOS/RHEL (got plenty installations). You have IPMI/dual PSU/dual CPU. The RAID is LSI, which is supported and you can monitor it with the tools from LSI. I am sure you can find many companies in UK, that offer this hardware.
Regards,
Hi Todor,
Thanks for that. I am looking at Lenovo at the moment.
I'm also looking at the DELL PowerEdge R630 with the H330 RAID controller. Google seems to come up with conflicting reports on this though, some saying it works fine while others are having trouble with the RAID controller not showing any drives when doing the install.
Does anyone have experience of this kit?
On 03/08/2015 04:24 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi Todor,
Thanks for that. I am looking at Lenovo at the moment.
I'm also looking at the DELL PowerEdge R630 with the H330 RAID controller. Google seems to come up with conflicting reports on this though, some saying it works fine while others are having trouble with the RAID controller not showing any drives when doing the install.
Does anyone have experience of this kit?
As I remember, DELL are using LSI as RAID. However, I don't know exactly about this model.
You can check this site http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ for HW RAID recommendations.
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