UNCLASSIFIED - RE: [Xen-users] Is HP server hardware incompatible with Xen?

["HAWKER, Dan \(external\)" <Dan.HAWKER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

<snip>
>

> Well, I am actually looking for confirmation on a ProLiant

> ML150 G3 machine, not the DL145.
>

> I just don't want to buy the machine to find out that there's

> some problem that stops me from using it for it's intended purpose.
>


Have a ML150 G3 we use as a D2D2T backup staging box for Bacula.
Although it is not presently using Xen, when it arrived I did use it for
running some rudimentary Xen testing. This was a while ago (8months?),
but PV Xen worked fine. It was a bit *fun* to install, as it has some
relatively new hardware that FC5 (our default OS) didn't by default know
about. I didn't test HVM Xen as I was just testing on the off chance we
decided to buy any more.

We did have one issue early on with using a 3rd party SATA RAID card
(Adaptec SA2820) with it, where the BIOS wouldn't get by the SATA card,
but after an update it works pretty well. We purchased it because we
needed a big (sized) box to fill with disks, without the need for lots
of compute power, be reasonably priced and be from HP (corporate IT
policy), so it fits this bill quite nicely. However I probably wouldn't
get another one, for no other reason than we usually need more compute
power and storage is via SAN so no need for a big box.

HTH

Dan
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Dan Hawker
Linux System Administrator
Astrium
http://www.astrium.eads.net

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