Hi guys,
I’ve been trying to install Router OS 6.35 on one of my Dell Servers R710, unfortunately the installer doesn’t recognize the hard drive. I tried with (disks on RAID and without RAID config) the H700 RAID card and nothing, also tried with the PERC 6/i RAID card and nothing, and finally tried with a USB flash drive in the internal USB port and also nothing, the installer doesn’t recognize the hard drives. Any idea? PCI-Express SSD card?
i think a good option is to install routerOS virtualized
The thing is that I really wouldn’t like to use a virtualized router as our main core router.
I have two offices running x86 on ESXi 6. It works quite well, and as a bonus you can clone the VM and script ESXi to power up the clone if/when the main crashes and won’t boot.
If you really want it on the hardware, need to keep the RAM to a max of 2GB, and you will need to run an SATA hard drive off of a native controller. It will not detect a Dell PERC or LSI Megaraid.
You could also deploy it as CHR on VMware. That’ll give you a 64-bit install versus the x86 which is only 32-bit. Plus, the advantages of running in VMware are numerous…not being tied to a specific piece of hardware, the ability to increase the hardware resources available to the VM without having to upgrade physical hardware, flexible NIC support, etc.