Dell R610 and R310 Setup procedure
Hi all,
I am waiting for new Dell R610 and R310's and a 4820 rack to arrive. This all new to me so am kind of anxious.
The R610 has 2 RAID1 drives for the OS, and 4 RAID5 drives for the file server. The OS will be Windows 2003. The R310 will be a mail server.
Can you recommend tips and/or practices that may help a noob like me get a head start? Maybe things I should read.
Or, is it pretty straightforward, so just take it as it comes?
Thank you,
Chris
I am waiting for new Dell R610 and R310's and a 4820 rack to arrive. This all new to me so am kind of anxious.
The R610 has 2 RAID1 drives for the OS, and 4 RAID5 drives for the file server. The OS will be Windows 2003. The R310 will be a mail server.
Can you recommend tips and/or practices that may help a noob like me get a head start? Maybe things I should read.
Or, is it pretty straightforward, so just take it as it comes?
Thank you,
Chris
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Wow! Excellent response. Great examples.
Thank you.
Wow! Excellent response. Great examples.
Thank you.
NP ... take care :)
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I appreciate your help. Thank you. 8-)
CORRECTION: The OS will be Windows 2008. My apologies.
We currently have 1x 2003 server and 1x 2000 server running active directory at Windows 2000 level. I was thinking of setting the R610 as a member server at the get go. Then, as time permits, demote the 2000 server. Then set the R610 as a DC and run AD at level 2003 with the 2003 server. Do you think that should work?
Yes, I ordered OpenManage DVD Kit.
The R610 is 2x 146GB 10K SA SCSI RAID1 drives. Since it will be used mainly for the OS, I assume it's ok to allocate the whole 146 GB at once. Unless you guys have better ideas!
The R610 also has 4x 300GB 10K SA SCSI RAID5 drives, to be used for our file server. It will serve mostly AutoCAD .dwg. It will also serve Revit (modeling) files, which can get quite large, e.g. 20 to 100 MB per file. Should I allocate the whole space at once? I was thinking maybe I could use a portion of it for other purposes... maybe a test lab. hahaha.
The R310 will be our mail server (MDaemon). It has 4x 1TB 7.2K SATA RAID5 drives. I'm wondering, why didn't Dell do a RAID1 for the OS partition, too? I guess the OS running on the same partition as the mail server app should be fine?
It also has iDRAC6 Express. How does iDRAC compare to OpenManage?
Chris