[H-GEN] Linux Distribution for A Dell Poweredge 840?

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Adrian Sutton wrote on 01/03/2007 03:00:38 PM:

> On the plus side, we now have Debian testing installed and running
> well. The install is ultra-minimal because originally there was a
> problem reading the available packages from the DVD and the installer
> just froze. Second time round I just installed the base system and
> nothing else. It cost me an hour or so in trying to find the
> dependencies for VMware. All the hardware we need (network, SATA and
> CPU) seem to be fully functional. I'm currently setting up an
> instance of IWWCM inside the VM, so it all looks promising.

Excellent, FYI a couple of tips:

1) Ensure that DMA disk access is enabled, check using hdparm[1]

2) The default system clock of the Linux 2.6 kernel is 1000/second, which
unnecessarily stresses the virtual hardware: recompile the kernel to a
lower setting, ie 100/second as per 2.4 kernels.[2]


[1]
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1235138,00.html
[2] http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/host_perf.html

Cheers,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect (Certified)
Architecture Services
Global Business Services - Application Services
IBM Global Services, Brisbane, Australia
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