You may remember a few posts back when I talked about putting Solaris x86 on our new Poweredge 2900 box. I ultimately decided against that since VMWare won’t allow a virtual machine to access more than 2TB of RAW disk (instead of using a VMDK file). After seeing how similar OpenFiler is to Red Hat (Openfiler uses rPath Linux) I figured I’d be able to hack Dell OpenManage onto the box to get hardware RAID monitoring.
No dice. I tried installing the RHEL4 and the RHEL5 versions of OpenManage per this thread on the OpenFiler Discussion forum, but according to this thread (started by me) Dell is lazy by compiling OpenManage against libstdc++.so.5 instead of libstdc++.so.6 for RHEL5. I had similar problems when trying to install the LSI SNMP agent to just monitor the health of the RAID array via SNMP. OpenFiler was, at one point in time, based on CentOS — in my opinion switching to rpath was a bad for end users (at least those of us who are trying to install 3rd party apps.)
So it looks like OpenFiler is out, and generic CentOS will be in. We already lost ZFS when Solaris x86 wouldn’t boot on the box, now we’re losing easy-peasy LVM management and snapshotting and will just have a *yawn* boring ass NFS server that will be hard to manage.
After spending four hours working on that today (had to throw that in there so that my coworkers know that they’re not the only people working on the weekend) I went out and cut the lawn and trimmed the bushes. I’m going to try to hit the sack early tonight.
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