Comments on: What is the most powerful server we can rent from a datacenter? http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/ The Journal Of A Linux Sysadmin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Fully Subscribedhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-89915 Fully Subscribed Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:45:55 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/#comment-89915 Cool post on the most powerful server we can rent from a datacenter? | MDLog:/sysadmin! Cool post on the most powerful server we can rent from a datacenter? | MDLog:/sysadmin!

]]> By: - Marius -http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-1195 - Marius - Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:07:46 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/#comment-1195 I will have such a server deployed on EV1 sometime during the next weeks so I will see for myself if there are any software problems with it... Though, I will be running Debian on it (it will come installed with RHEL and I will reinstall it remotely to Debian Etch). I'll keep you posted if I see any problems. I will have such a server deployed on EV1 sometime during the next weeks so I will see for myself if there are any software problems with it… Though, I will be running Debian on it (it will come installed with RHEL and I will reinstall it remotely to Debian Etch). I’ll keep you posted if I see any problems.

]]> By: practicalithttp://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-1194 practicalit Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:32:23 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/#comment-1194 I have this server. And I'm running Ubuntu 6.0.6.1 update from 6.0.6 via apt-get dist-upgrade.The main problem was the megaraid_sas driver issue if you look on the ubuntu forums it tells how to get around that. Then once you configure /etc/network/interfaces with the auto eth0 and the ip addresses then you don't have to modprobe bnx2. I have this server. And I’m running Ubuntu 6.0.6.1 update from 6.0.6 via apt-get dist-upgrade.

The main problem was the megaraid_sas driver issue if you look on the ubuntu forums it tells how to get around that.
Then once you configure /etc/network/interfaces with the auto eth0 and the ip addresses then you don’t have to modprobe bnx2.

]]> By: - Marius -http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-422 - Marius - Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:50:49 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/#comment-422 Kevin,Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I will not be able to test this in the next days as I was expecting... I have a client that has several servers on theplanet and they didn't want to add this to his setup. They said that the new servers are available only on their new datacenter (D6, hmm), and could not add it near the old ones... I hate these things so much... Anyway maybe in the future I will see this in action.Cheers, - Marius - Kevin,

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I will not be able to test this in the next days as I was expecting… I have a client that has several servers on theplanet and they didn’t want to add this to his setup. They said that the new servers are available only on their new datacenter (D6, hmm), and could not add it near the old ones… I hate these things so much… Anyway maybe in the future I will see this in action.

Cheers,
- Marius -

]]> By: Kevinhttp://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Kevin Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:30:42 +0000 http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/21/what-is-the-most-powerful-server-we-can-rent-from-a-datacenter/#comment-397 I just got one of these 1950's in for testing from dell. Ours is very similar execpt we have 2 x 73gig SAS drives in raid 1. One word of warning. Nothing with a 2.4 kernel will work with SAS, well as ive found so far. We use FC4 on these appliances and it does not detect the drives nor the nic. Also on the 1950's they went to a broadcom chipset on the dual 1000mbs nic's. the bx2 chipset drivers so far Ive only seen in 2.6 kernels. So right now Im working on transitioning our packages from FedoraCore 4 to FC5. So yea they are fast and small....but not an easy transition for people that may have custom builds or scripts I just got one of these 1950′s in for testing from dell. Ours is very similar execpt we have 2 x 73gig SAS drives in raid 1. One word of warning. Nothing with a 2.4 kernel will work with SAS, well as ive found so far. We use FC4 on these appliances and it does not detect the drives nor the nic. Also on the 1950′s they went to a broadcom chipset on the dual 1000mbs nic’s. the bx2 chipset drivers so far Ive only seen in 2.6 kernels. So right now Im working on transitioning our packages from FedoraCore 4 to FC5. So yea they are fast and small….but not an easy transition for people that may have custom builds or scripts

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