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Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5 on>2TB disks
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- From: Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>
- To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5 on>2TB disks
- Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:53:59 -0400
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have a look at pg89 or pg92 of the owners manual. just what the vossen
ordered. ;-)
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/per710/en/HOM/PDF/HOM.pdf.
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 15:11 -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:56:31 -0400
> > From: Lee Marzke<lee@marzke.net>
> >
> > FYI,
> >
> > Many manufactures are now putting VMware ESXi ( embeded version ) on
> > a 1GB USB thumb drive (internal) [1] to an OEM purchased servers
> > instead of the traditional RAID1 2 disk array. VMware recommends
> > not using internal disks for ESXi ! - boot either from USB or SAN.
>
> Yeah, I remember you talking about that, which is why I was looking for
> such an option on the R710's we're using. But I don't want ESXi, I just
> need the "drive" for the base OS. Such an option was not jumping out at
> me on Dell's configurator, but as we all know Dell's site is cumbersome
> to navigate at best, and you get very different options depending on
> your location and entry-point, which I find intensely annoying since
> that makes it very hard to compare Dell apples to Dell apples.
>
> If I could get an inexpensive internal, "factory," USB/CF/whatever of at
> least 1G (2G would be better), that would be about perfect. Even better
> if I could retro-fit a kit to existing servers. I don't know how many I
> already have in the field, but I'm guessing more than 100.
>
> Thanks,
> JP
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