[BlueOnyx:23660] Re: BO on a Dell Poweredge R510?

[Neil Watson]

On 2/6/2020 8:55 PM Chris Gebhardt wrote:

On 2/6/2020 2:37 PM, Neil Watson wrote:


    >> Hi

    >> Wondering if anyone has put BlueOnyx onto a Dell Poweredge R510? 
Does it play nicely with a Dell H700 RAID adapter?

    >> Any other comments?


      >  BlueOnyx will work fine on Dell hardware.    We've got hundreds 
anywhere from the old PE2950's to newer R730.

Thanks for the reassurance, Chris.

On the basis "it'll work", I've come by a Dell Poweredge R710 with a 
PERC H700 RAID adapter...

Thought I'd try the latest BO (5210R) and the installer just 't see the 
disk on the H700 (its singular at the moment, but I plan for it to be 
Raid 5).

Some digging has found this 
https://fatmin.com/2019/11/23/installing-rhel-8-1-on-dell-r710-r610-with-h700-raid-controller/ 
which suggests that the H700 no longer has a driver on the Centos 8 
images ( :( ) and suggests supplying the driver via an OEMDRV image - 
but I can't get it to work...

I couldn't get the latest 5209R to install either - but have managed to 
install Centos 7.7 so I wonder if that was just an oddity...


Have you worked out a recipe for installing 510R on Poweredges that have 
H700 RAIDs that you'd be prepared to share perhaps? I'm sure I'm not 
going to be the only one trying to do it!

I'm just beginning to worry that my trusty 5107R-running is heading to 
"end of support" with the end of Centos 6 so needs to be replaced...

TIA

Neil