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[[!meta title="Linux on the Dell R815"]]
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In my office resides a
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[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.
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## Dell R815?
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That's what you get with that "little box":
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* 2U 19" rack chassis
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* 4x 12 Cores (AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6174) ("Magny Cours")
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* 64 GiB memory (DDR3, 1333 Mhz)
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* 5x 136 GiB HD
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* iDrac6
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For detailled information, have a look at
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[[the get-sysinfo output|docs/sys-specs/get-sysinfo.sh.dell-r815.log]].
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## Remote access / iDrac6
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* Works with conkeror + javaws from Sun Java 6 (archlinux)
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* Works with Mozilla 3.5.9 + Sun Java 6 (windows)
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* Even german menu (java interpreted locales?)
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* Keyboard doees not work sometimes; selecting something in the menu sometimes fixes it
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* Video refresh is very slow (only parts of **ps aux** can be seen)
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* Has shortcuts in the menu for **alt-fx** and **ctrl-alt-fx**
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* Somebody at Dell or at Avocent (as seen in About iDRAC 6 about) seems to
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have noticed that Linux is available
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* General the KVM website is slow (about 3 seconds to load subpage)
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* Boot device can be forced (without going to the BIOS)
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* Has syslog support
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* No logs when enabling
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* Tried to trigger via cold boot of the system (no success)
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* Seems to work only with the ip address
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* IP address is submitted as the hostname (instead of sgs-r815-ra01)
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* Need to select "Use DHCP to obtain DNS server addresses" manually
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## Debian Lenny
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See only 32 cores, kernel is compiled with this limit. As Debian
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Lennys Linux kernel (2.6.26) does not support the raid controller
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found in the system, it's not possible to install it currently.
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## Ubuntu 10.04
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Ubuntu 10.04 installs fine on the machine. As another friendly sysadmin
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has already prepared an automated network installation of Ubuntu
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(thanks Steven!), I could easily get the machine up and running.
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## Future
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The machine is now up and running with Ubuntu 10.04 and configured with
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puppet. It's now open for the
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[Systems Group people](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/) for use. Have fun!
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[[!tag eth unix]]
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