hmm... I am wondering why no one had post a reply on my inquiry? Am I too much of a 'upscale' kind of guy because I want to install this beast on a scsi/raid system? I checked Dell's website and they only had drivers for Red Hat distro.
check the hardware compatibility file at docs.astaro.org for SCSI/RAID controller support. I am pretty sure that AMI/Dell controllers are supported although I have never tried.
I have just installed Astaro on a Poweredge 2550. All that I had to do was configure the PERC controller as a SCSI device, rather than a RAID controller in the BIOS.
As per http://docs.astaro.org/asl-hardware.txt, the Adaptec PCI based SCSI controllers (including the PERC controller) are supported, but not when configured as hardware RAID controllers.
The option to change the PERC raid controller from RAID to SCSI is in the BIOS of the Poweredge 2550, and I would guess that it is similar for the Poweredge 1550.
Why go so high scale? I've managed to get two Astaro boxes working great on PowerEdge 380's - added an extra two port NIC and I was set. No worries about SCSI hardware or other incompatabilities. Most of the firewall tasks on this box are BUS/NIC/CPU/Memory related, so having a super fast drive subsystem isn't going to matter a great deal unless you're doing some intensive proxying.
Why go so high scale? I've managed to get two Astaro boxes working great on PowerEdge 380's - added an extra two port NIC and I was set. No worries about SCSI hardware or other incompatabilities. Most of the firewall tasks on this box are BUS/NIC/CPU/Memory related, so having a super fast drive subsystem isn't going to matter a great deal unless you're doing some intensive proxying.
we're about to install Astaro on a Dell PE2550, and while it was a relief to find out that I can use the PERC by disabling the RAID I really would like to use RAID for mirroring the whole thing..
I'm in the process of evaluting Astario and I'm running 2.025 on a Dell 1550. Everything seems to be working well; all the h/w was detected during the installation. This system is NOT using a RAID controller, just the on-board SCSI which is detected as an Adaptec 78xx controller.
