OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0 for Ubuntu is now available for download. This is a major new release, as OMSA 7.0 is designed with PowerEdge 12G servers and iDRAC 7 in mind. We've tested OMSA 7.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is great, since Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS introduces support for Dell...

Posted on behalf of Charles Rose from Enterprise Linux Engineering. Dell PowerEdge Servers and Precision workstations with recent Linux based distributions support naming network interfaces with meaningful, predictable names (in place of the traditional "eth" names) like em1 and p2p4. Red...

Dell TechCenter Linux users may be wondering what you get when you cross Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS13 laptop ? That's easy, Project Sputnik, the new developer laptop initiative ! "Sputnik is part of an effort by Dell to better understand and serve the needs of developers in Web companies...

Ubuntu Server 12.04 (a.k.a. Precise Pangolin) was released today by Canonical. Some of the new features in Ubuntu Server 12.04 include a rebase to the 3.2 kernel, inclusion of the latest OpenStack release and full support for Xen virtualization. For full details on these and other exciting features,...

For the past few months I have been looking at KVM virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS and just recently started looking at KVM security. I have a small deployment in my lab with a few Dell PowerEdge servers, EqualLogic iSCSI storage and several Linux Virtual Machines (VMs), and even...

Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering Team. Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8 Operating System on Feb 2012, which includes driver updates, bug fixes and support for new hardware. For detailed information, please refer to RHEL 5.8 release...

Dell recently unveiled the 12th generation servers including rack mountable servers (Dell PowerEdge R720, R720XD, R620), Blades (Dell PowerEdge M620) and Tower Server (Dell PowerEdge T620). Enterprise Linux OS Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 1 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 7 x86...

Posted on behalf of Narayanan D from Dell Linux Engineering team. Dell launched the 12th Generation of PowerEdge servers—powered by Intel’s E5 26xx series processors and Patsburg C600 chipset . These processors (Socket-R compatible) have a maximum of 8 cores per socket and offers upto...

Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering team. SUSE has recently announced the availability of SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Operating System. SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP2 is based on Kernel 3.0 (3.0.13-0.27-default). Linux 3.0 kernel brings the latest in innovation...

SUSE on Feb 28th, 2012, announced the general availability of SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 (SP2). SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 introduces Linux Kernel 3.0, which is the successor of the Linux kernel 2.6 series. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 includes support for new hardware (including...

Posted on behalf of Srinivas Gowda from Dell Linux Engineering Team Dell recently announced 12 th Generation PowerEdge Servers . It supports host of new features and Hardware. One such hardware feature is to use KCS interrupts for IPMI communication from Linux OS to Baseboard Management Controller...

Introduction Systems management, which includes managing OS updates, hardware information and overall system health, has always been a tedious and hard-to-manage task for I/T administrators. If you run Ubuntu, you can use Landscape , an all-in-one in-band systems management tool from Canonical used...

Posted on behalf of Narayanan D from Dell's Enterprise Linux Engineering team Dell PowerEdge Servers R415 and R515 now support AMD Opteron 4200 series of processors. These processors are Socket C32 compatible and it supports maximum of 8 cores per socket. On these dual sockets servers the system...

Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering Team. Red Hat has recently announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 Operating System, which includes driver updates, bug fixes and support for new hardware. For detailed information, please refer to RHEL 6.2 release...

Posted on behalf of Narayanan D from Dell's Enterprise Linux Engineering team AMD recently announced the release of Opteron 6200 series of processors. These processors are Socket G34 compatible and these have a maximum of 16 cores per socket. Opteron 6200 series of processors can be popped...

Diskless boot is a known concept and I am not trying to re-introduce the same in this blog. I will primarily concentrate on diskless booting (RHEL6) to an iscsi LUN in this article. Systems can boot to iscsi LUNs primarily in two ways. A system can use an option ROM during POST to connect to the...

Earlier this year, Novell released SUSE Manager, a systems management solution for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) systems, which provides management, system provisioning and monitoring capabilities. What I particularly like about SUSE Manager is that it is based on the open source project Spacewalk...

Ubuntu Server Edition 11.10 (a.k.a. Oneiric Ocelot) was released from Canonical on October 13, 2011. Some of the new features include Juju and Orchestra , which is a collection of software for rapidly deploying and managing datacenter services. In addition, Ubuntu Server Edition 11.10 is based on the...

This is posted on behalf of Jordan Hargrave, an engineer on Dell's Linux Engineering team Biosdevname is a utility used to help map Linux ethernet devices to their physical location in a system. Traditionally in Linux, ethernet devices have been named ethX, which may or may not correspond to the...

Red Hat has released the beta edition of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0. RHEV is Red Hat’s end-to-end virtualization solution and is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology. Some of the key enhancements in RHEV 3.0 include: The RHEV Manager (RHEV...

One interesting new feature in OpenSSH that has been delivered in releases starting last year is Certificate Authority support. This is a very useful and easy to implement option in OpenSSH with the small difficulty that it is very new and is very difficult to find documentation for. The purpose of this...

When dealing with databases, speed and latency are of the utmost importance. Though there’s a tendency to continuously strive for a higher speeds and lower latencies, we can’t always justify the cost. Things are further complicated as performance on systems degrade over time, requiring more...

NOTE: The LiveDVD solution outlined below is NOT supported by Dell. Dell already supports multiple options for customers to update their firmware of the hardware components in Dell servers. i) Life Cycle Controller ii) System Build and Update Utility (SBUU) iii) Server Update Utility ...

For the past few months, the Dell Linux Engineering team has been working to upgrade the infrastructure that hosts our software and firmware repositories at linux.dell.com and our open source depot at opensource.dell.com . Not only did we procure new servers with more powerful processors and increased...

I recently encountered what was, at least for one system administrator, a source of confusion while setting up a real-time, low latency Linux system. Current Dell servers use processors which can be put into lower power states when they are idle to save power. These idle states are called C states...