diff --git a/about/computers.mdwn b/about/computers.mdwn index 35d5aee5..9c8a2f1b 100644 --- a/about/computers.mdwn +++ b/about/computers.mdwn @@ -273,9 +273,10 @@ living in our home. ### dosinux.intern.schottelius.org Midi tower used for gaming. Name is a combination of "dos on unix", -because I used dosbox to run old games on it. +because I used dosbox to run old games on it. The case was +bought from Dicks Computer Dienst, with a blue handle. -### grauerstar +### grauerstar.intern.schottelius.org Nice workstations from HP, a [[HP J6000|hpJ6000datasheet.pdf]] featured with @@ -287,7 +288,7 @@ a HPPA processsor. I was running it with both Debian and Gentoo. * Used: ~2006 - ~2008 (unclear) * No real productive use, just played around with it. -### grauerklon +### grauerklon.intern.schottelius.org Same machine as grauerstar. Just bought two of them, you never know how many HPPAs you need, don't you? diff --git a/blog/dell-r815-hands-on-with-linux.mdwn b/blog/dell-r815-hands-on-with-linux.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce2a4985 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/dell-r815-hands-on-with-linux.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +[[!meta title="Linux on the Dell R815"]] + +In my office resides a +[Dell R815 testmachine](http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-r815-spec-sheet-en.pdf), which would like to get infected with Linux and get tested. + +## Dell R815? + +That's what you get with that "little box": + + * 2U 19" rack chassis + * 4x 12 Cores (AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6174) ("Magny Cours") + * 64 GiB memory (DDR3, 1333 Mhz) + * 5x 136 GiB HD + * iDrac6 + +For detailled information, have a look at +[[the get-sysinfo output|get-sysinfo.sh.sgs-r815-01.log]]. + +## Remote access / iDrac6 + + * Works with conkeror + javaws from Sun Java 6 (archlinux) + * Works with Mozilla 3.5.9 + Sun Java 6 (windows) + * Even german menua (locale read?) + * keyboard doeees not work... select menue sometimes fixes it + * Video refresh is very slow (only parts of **ps aux** can be seen) + * Has shortcuts in the menu for **alt-fx** and **ctrl-alt-fx*** + * Somebody at Dell or at Avocent (as seen in About iDRAC 6 about) seems to + have noticed that Linux is available + * General the KVM website is slow (about 3 seconds to load subpage) + * Boot device can be forced (without going to the BIOS) + * Has syslog support + * No logs when enabling + * Tried to trigger via cold boot of the system (no success) + * Seems to work only with the ip address + * IP address is submitted as the hostname (instead of sgs-r815-ra01) + * Need to select "Use DHCP to obtain DNS server addresses" manually + +## Debian Lenny + +See only 32 cores, kernel is compiled with this limit. As Debian +Lennys Linux kernel (2.6.26) does not support the raid controller +found in the system, it's not possible to install it currently. + +## Ubuntu 10.04 + +Ubuntu 10.04 installs fine on the machine. As another friendly sysadmin +has already prepared an automated network installation of Ubuntu +(thanks Steven!), I could easily get the machine up and running. + +## Future + +The machine is now up and running with Ubuntu 10.04 and configured with +puppet. It's now open for the +[Systems Group people](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/) for use. Have fun! + + +[[!tag eth unix]]