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My home storage system is here: 2 servers twin quad core xeons with twin lsi cards and a 24-bay sata jbod. So before I walk the hardware raid road I want to give linux raid a fair chance. Problem is I know no command line and need badly a gui to configure the arrays/volumes. I have spent a few days installing CentOS 6,2 where they wiped out most of the admin gui:s!? Ubuntu server was kind of sad too with no gui whatsoever for disk-jobs. I rolled Centos back to 5,7 and tomorrow I'll know if I have better luck.
Are there any gui-apps for handling raid and lvm's in any of these graphical systems ?
Why would you not want to use (real) hardware RAID ?. Slap LVM on top of that works mighty fine (even though I'm not a fan of LVM).
(I can understand wanting to avoid the lame on-board fake-RAID.)
Both SLES and RHEL offer GUI frontends. I agree Latest CentOS would be the way to go for a free solution.
Thanks, the lvm install went fine and it shows in the CentOS menu.
Could you instruct me how to install the Samba Server Config Package for CentOS 6,2 and also the Raid Mdadm Functionality via a package with gui. This would complete my initial test requirements.
Thanks a lot!
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Originally Posted by rhbegin
If you do a install of CentOS 6.2 you can select the various packages like a Window Manager.
you need this package
yum install system-config-lvm
this is a graphical tool for lvm
I would go back to CentOS 6.2 as it is a lot fresher with a ton more packages available, and setup the EPEL repo as well.
Lastly, for ease of use you can install a package called 'yumex' a graphical tool which will show ALL available packages/installed ect...
Check out the distro 'ClearOS' -formerly clarkconnect- . It's based on CentoS ,but their main goal are gui users. It's supposed to do a lot (samba server,shares,proxy,firewalling,and much much more). It's got a free community version ,but also a payable enterprise version with proper support.
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