Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell Hardware Raid

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell Hardware Raid

[Harold Pritchett]

I have ordered the following server from Dell:

PowerEdge T610
	Tower Chassis for Up to Eight 3.5-Inch Hard Drives
	No Operating System
	Intel Xeon E5504, 2.0Ghz, 4M Cache, 800MHz Max Mem
	6GB Memory (3x2GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked UDIMMs for 1 Processor, Optimized
	Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5709 Gigabit Ethernet NIC
	PERC 6/i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Internal, PCIe, 256MB Cache
		(4) 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Hot Plug Hard Drive
		RAID 6 for PERC 6/i Controller
	DVD-ROM, SATA, Internal
	Electronic System Documentation, OpenManage DVD Kit with DMC

I wish to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 on this using hardware raid-6.
I have four 250 GB drives and four additional hot swap bays for future expansion.

What do I need to do this?  Instructions? Drivers? 32 vs 64 bit?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Harold


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Re: Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell Hardware Raid

[Robin Hill]

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On Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 09:49:10AM -0500, Harold Pritchett wrote:

> I wish to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 on this using hardware raid-6.
> I have four 250 GB drives and four additional hot swap bays for future
> expansion.
> 
> What do I need to do this?  Instructions? Drivers? 32 vs 64 bit?
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
This is mostly a software RAID list, but this looks straightforward
enough.  The specs you listed show that you've specified the RAID-6
setup, so it should arrive pre-configured.  If not, you'll need to set
it up via the controller BIOS (should pop up a message at boot time).
The drivers should be included with RHEL5, and with 6GB RAM I'd say
you'd want 64-bit (there's little reason to go for 32-bit over 64-bit
nowadays).

HTH,
    Robin
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