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  • Wiki Page: Ubuntu LTS Hardware Enablement Stack

    LTS releases For customers who want to deploy Ubuntu Server in an enterprise environment, Dell recommends that they use an LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu Server, which is currently v12.04, originally released in April 2012. LTS releases have a support life cycle of 5 years, as opposed to...
    on16 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: gPXE and network deployment of operating systems

    This wiki is written by Shiva Katta and Krishnaprasad K from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. This wiki talks about a specific problem and it’s solutions while using gPXE for operating system deployment over the network. What's gPXE? Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) provides the...
    on15 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Ubuntu Server

    Dell and Canonical Dell and Canonical have reached an agreement to collaboratively support our mutual and future customers by bringing the best of breed support for both the hardware and OS. We have both seen the increasing demand for our solutions to be integrated, and we are happy to be able to...
    on8 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Linux Tips and Tricks

    In this section, we include Linux tips and tricks that our experienced Linux engineers have found over the years. Whether you are a system administrator, developer or just a casual user, these tips and tricks are sure to come in handy. Feel free to add your own :) Enhancing the bash command prompt...
    on30 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Ubuntu Server Networking

    In Ubuntu Server, configuring network interfaces is surprisingly straight-forward. As opposed to other Linux distributions, where there is a configuration file per each interface (which can be hard to manage), there is only one network interface configuration file in Ubuntu: /etc/network/interfaces...
    on18 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Red Hat

    Dell has been offering the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OS since 1998. Dell and Red Hat Alliance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) on 10 November 2010. RHEL 6 is supported by Dell and Red Hat on all Dell 9G, 10G and...
    on9 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Linux OS Support on Dell PowerEdge Servers

    Linux OS Support Matrix Dell has extensive Linux expertise through our dedicated Linux engineering and technical support teams. The following Linux distributions are supported through collaborative support agreements between Dell and our respective Linux partners. Please see our support overview...
    on9 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Linux

    Welcome to the Dell Enterprise Linux Wiki. This wiki provides the opportunity to learn more about what Dell is doing with Linux on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and workstations. To learn more about Linux projects and what the Dell Linux Engineering team is working on, use the navigation pane...
    on9 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Linux Projects

    DKMS The Dell Linux engineering team works on projects that help improve the usability of Linux in the enterprise. These projects have been embraced by the Linux community and are widely used. DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependent...
    on9 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Python fun

    I have a background in Unix / Linux system administration and as such, I have a lot of experience with bash script programming. Lately I've been moving away from bash scripting and playing more with python. Though some tasks are better suited for bash scripting, a lot of them are easier and simpler...
    on12 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Linux Distributions

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Dell supports Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® on PowerEdge and Precision Workstations. Visit dell.com/redhat to find out more. More information here . SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Dell supports Novell® SuSE® Linux Enterprise Server on PowerEdge servers. Visit...
    on11 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Red Hat Network Satellite administration tips

    I manage a Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server in our lab for our Red Had Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts, and throughout the years I’ve gathered a few tips and hints that have made my life easier. Some of these tips can probably be found in the official Red Hat documentation already, others are...
    on28 Nov 2012

  • Wiki Page: SUSE

    Dell has been offering the SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server (SLES) operating system since 2005. In 2011, The Attachmate Group acquired Novell and now operates SUSE as an independent business. Dell and Novell Alliance Linux Operating System Solutions SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ...
    on25 Jul 2012

  • Wiki Page: Announcing the release of biosdevname 0.4.1

    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 Lan-on-Motherboard (LOM) numbering in the system. Biosdevname is a udev helper application that...
    on20 Jul 2012

  • Wiki Page: Using ledmon/ledctl utilities on Linux to manage backplane LEDs for PCIE SSD Software RAID drives

    Ledmon and ledctl are two utilities for Linux that can be used to control LED status on drive backplanes. Normally drive backplane LEDs are controlled by a hardware RAID controller (PERC), but when using Software RAID on Linux (mdadm) for PCIE SSD, the ledmon daemon will monitor the status of the drive...
    on11 Jun 2012

  • Wiki Page: KVM Virtualization Made Easy

    If you rather download this article as a PDF, click here . For a follow-up article that covers additional topics, click here . Jose De la Rosa Dell Linux Engineering Introduction Purpose of this article This article describes how to quickly setup and manage a virtualized environment...
    on31 May 2012

  • Wiki Page: Linux Virtualization

    In this section we explore everything related to virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Other Linux-based hypervisors such as ESX and XenServer are covered in the Virtualization section. KVM Virtualization in RHEL 6 Made Easy KVM Virtualization...
    on31 May 2012

  • Wiki Page: KVM Virtualization Security

    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...
    on16 Apr 2012

  • Wiki Page: Enhancing the bash command prompt

    The bash command prompt in most Linux distributions is pretty bland. If you use the Linux command prompt on a regular basis, perhaps you have noticed that in most Linux distributions, it looks something like this: [user@hostname dir]$ Don’t get me wrong; this can be quite useful, as it displays...
    on5 Feb 2012

  • Wiki Page: Linux Blogs

    The following are blog entries on the Dell TechCenter Community Site, made by members of the Dell Linux Engineering team on several interesting topics: AMD Opteron 4200 series processors supported on R415 and R515 servers Announcing the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 on Dell PowerEdge...
    on11 Jan 2012

  • Wiki Page: Oracle VM & Dell

    Oracle VM enables data centers to run multiple virtual machines on a single piece of hardware. The bare-metal hardware runs software that enables you to install multiple instances of operating systems that are able to run simultaneously and independently, in their own secure environment, with minimal...
    on2 Nov 2011

  • Wiki Page: KVM Virtualization Advanced Topics

    Coming Soon
    on2 Nov 2011

  • Wiki Page: Linux FAQs

    What is Linux? From wikipedia.org: Linux is a Unix-like computer OS . The Linux® OS is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; its underlying source code can be modified, used, and redistributed by anyone, freely. Full definition on wikipedia.org What Enterprise...
    on2 Nov 2011

  • Wiki Page: Linux Links

    The links below point to technical and marketing information for Linux-related programs at Dell: Unofficial Dell software and firmware repositories: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository Dell & Linux: http://www.dell.com/linux n-Series Systems: http://www.dell.com/nseries Dell & Red...
    on2 Nov 2011

  • Wiki Page: Linux Hardware Monitoring

    Dell OpenManage Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is the suite of tools provided by Dell for managing an individual server. See the official OpenManage site for product information. Obtaining OMSA OMSA is included with the purchase of every new PowerEdge server. It comes on a CD included in...
    on2 Nov 2011
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