Installing Centos On The Dell Poweredge C6220; Prerequisites; Installation - Dell PowerEdge C6220 Installation Manual

Dell PowerEdge C6220 and CentOS 6.2: A LAMP Reference
Architecture
memory management capabilities, and ext4 file system support. For more information
about CentOS, visit http://www.centos.org/.
INSTALLING CENTOS ON THE DELL POWEREDGE
C6220

Prerequisites

BIOS requirements
When installing CentOS 6.2 (64-bit), we used the default factory BIOS setting for
the server. Based on your workload requirements, BIOS settings may require
adjustment, but you should thoroughly test these changes prior to production
implementation.
Driver prerequisites
In our lab installation, we used a Dell PowerEdge C6220 with the LSI MegaRAID
SAS 9265-8i RAID controller. Using this storage controller, CentOS installs and runs
without extra hardware drivers or software modules on the Dell PowerEdge C6220.

Installation

Deployment options
We recognize in mass deployment situations there are various options for OS
deployment including Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) or orchestration tools such
as Puppet. For this guide, however, we wish to prepare our "gold image" for CentOS on
a single Dell PowerEdge C6220 server node. To do this, we used its embedded
baseboard management controller (BMC) console and virtual installation media.
Storage configuration
The Dell PowerEdge C6220 can use several storage controllers to guard against
disk failures. For this guide, we assume that we wish to change the disk configuration
from the factory installation. We created one RAID6 virtual disk using the LSI MegaRAID
SAS 9265-8i RAID controller and the six 900GB internal hard drives assigned to the
server. We partitioned for the virtual disk for both OS and application data. Detailed
instructions on how to configure the storage controller are in
Installing the operating system
1. Using the BMC, assign the CentOS-6.2-x86_64-bin-DVD1 installation DVD to
the node and start the server.
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