Topic: New server components

[smeerbartje]

smeerbartje

Careful, the motherboard I was referring to was the Intel DQ35JO or DQ35JOE. It is listed here
https://hardware.redhat.com/list.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Hardware%20Certification&quicksearch=Intel&offset=100
as certfied for Centos5.1

Also see
https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=383941


Backwards compatibility from Centos5.1/sme8 is not guaranteed, but from experience is does work with sme7.3 (for nearly 9 months) and now sme7.4 since the upgrade a few days ago.

So you can buy that motherboard knowing it will be OK now and OK when sme 8 final is released.

It appears to be the only desktop motherboard fully certified (for Centos5.1).

Hi Mary,

Yes, I'm also referring to the DQ35JOE You really helped me out, thanks.

[smeerbartje]

Hi all,

Here is my (almost definitive) configuration:

• Antec Piano Black Slimline Micro ATX PC Case 350 Watt 80PLUS certified power supply (€91,35, link)
  
• Intel Johannesburg S775 Q35 MATX (DQ35JO) (€98,31, Link)
  
• Intel Core2Duo E7300 2,66Ghz / 1066FSB (€95,70, Link)
  
• Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB SATAII 3.5I" 7200RPM 16MB 0A35415 (€50,03, Link)
  
• Kingston 2GB 800MHZ DDR2 NON-ECC CL6 DIMM (€30,45)
• Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter - PCI (€22,62, Link)
  

Anyone ideas for improvements. And will this machine need a lot of power?

[David Harper]

If you buy two hard drives SME automatically will set up RAID 1 mirroring, which has saved lots of people's bacon (including mine) over the years.

According to the Intel support site, the driver for the PRO/1000 GT card is supported by all versions of the 2.6.x kernel, so you should be with this choice.

Also, if you are running VMWare in a production environment, 4Gb of RAM might be appropriate, especially given the fact that the RAM appears to be pretty cheap.

[smeerbartje]

If you buy two hard drives SME automatically will set up RAID 1 mirroring, which has saved lots of people's bacon (including mine) over the years.

According to the Intel support site, the driver for the PRO/1000 GT card is supported by all versions of the 2.6.x kernel, so you should be with this choice.

Also, if you are running VMWare in a production environment, 4Gb of RAM might be appropriate, especially given the fact that the RAM appears to be pretty cheap.

Thanks for your reply, exactly my thoughts. The server will not be a production server, just a home server running NAT, FTP, Squeezebox server and two vmware images (Oracle 10g database just for fun/learning and an Windows XP image)