[ILUG] Dell PowerVault

[Colm Buckley]

I know some people here have Dell experience, so I thought I'd pop this
one:

I'm looking at some biggish Dell servers for a project, and I was
wondering whether Linux copes well with the PowerEdge/PowerVault
combination.  I'm not looking at the PowerVault NAS systems (the
rebadged NetApp filers), but at something like the PV200S, which
apparently is just a bunch of SCSI disks in a box with a controller or
two.  How is that hooked up to (say) a PowerEdge 6350?  Just a line to
the 6350's external SCSI port?  Does the PV appear as One Big Disk then,
or as a bunch of devices?

If I put a PERC2 into the 6350, can the PV be set to appear as a single
device using RAID5?  And is Linux happy with all this?

         Colm

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