RDP Support on DL145 for both Windows and Linux

[Kevin_249]

Hi, from the latest support matrix of RDP for Linux 1.10, it only listed DL585 and DL140 support on RDP, how about DL145. Has anyone try it, what are the steps or potential issues that I need to know?

[Craig Jackson_3]

I was trying this over the weekend, and it doesn't work. Various files delivered with RDP assume that there's a cciss RAID controller present, and the DL145 doesn't have one. (Most notably, GRUB.IMG for installing SLES 9.)

I was able to get the PXE boot stuff to boot a disk based on a firmware upgrade disk. I need to write up how I did that.

I asked the RDP support folks about the DL145, and they just said it was unsupported.

[David Claypool]

RDP LE 1.10 Support Matrix at http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00209412/c00209412.pdf does in fact list DL145 as supported. Interestingly, RDP WE 2.0 Support Matrix at http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00294279/c00294279.pdf does not. No idea why, but I'll bring it up to the Product Manager.

[Craig Jackson_3]

And here we loaded RDP Windows Edition because we needed to get the more universal capabilities. (Loading both Windows and Linux.)

It would also be good to apprise the RDP Product Manager of http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ . Lots of good stuff there.

[Nathan Pangburn]

I could never get RDP-LE 1.10 to work with DL145 servers, and now that the 1.20 version is coming out it neither the DL140 and DL145 are listed as supported (http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11713_na/11713_na.html).

So, if support for these servers is gone in the latest versions of RDP for both Windows and Linux, what is the reason?

[Craig Jackson_3]

The real hangup on the DL145 that I saw is that it doesn't have a RAID controller. A number of things in the RDP SUSE install, including GRUB.IMG and the AutoYast file, assume the existence of a RAID controller.

Craig

[Ricardo Giron]

I just test in a Windows 2003 enviroment and is not support. In my lab I have the Adaptec 2021S RAID SCSI Controller. :(