hi ya pedro
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a couple of questions.
>
> i'm looking for a Linux distro to install on Compaq DL380 and DL360 G3
> Servers.
> I'm relatively confortable with Debian but can't find any support on the part
> of hardware manufacturers for Debian.
>
> - Where can i find some support (ML's, sites,....) about Debian and Compaq
> Servers ?
>
> - As anyone experienced this kind of difficulty ? what was the solution ?
> changed distro to Red Hat ? choose different hardware ?
what kind of "enterprise support" ??
- i dont know if compaq(hp), dell, gateway, hundreds-of-resellers have
a specific "debian" support
- i think the hardware support that you care about, is sorta limited to:
- does debian recognize the nic chipset
- does debian recognize the svga chipset
- does debian recognize the ide chipset
and since your comfy with debian, you dont need to worry about
driver support
- hardware support might want..
- dell/compaq has a 2-hr turn around on any part replacements
- and you pay an arm and leg for "parts replacement"
- and if they send you the wrong parts... they dont care
that you paid for 2hr turnaround that took 2 days to
get the box back up and online again
- i dont kow if they are any good at it ...
they all failed the disk fail (replacement) simulation tests
- have spare parts on your shelf if you are worried about
replacement parts
- have a spare server if you are worried about getting back online
asap ... when the main server died for whatever reason
- original (cpu/disk/pc-cards) manufacturers warranty numbers
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Warranty/
- "3 yr warranty" usually means you ship the bad part back to the
manufacturer AFTER you get an rma#, and wait 4-6 weeks for a
replacement part
- backup your data ... to 3 different places ... daily, weekly, monthly
and evenly spread out amongs the 3 backup servers
and test that it works, restore a full working server from bare
metal
main: ls -laR / > /tmp/main.lst
restored# ls -laR / > /tmp/restored.lst
diff /tmp/main.lst /tmp/restored.lst
exclude /proc and some /dev/xxxx and some other stuff
- now you can sleep ..
c ya
alvin
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