From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 13:48:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB18106564A for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pascal@clermont.cc) Received: from mail.clermont.cc (clermont.cc [69.70.237.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5E88FC0C for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.100.125]) by mail.clermont.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF9BA8D33 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:17:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.clermont.cc ([192.168.100.125]) by localhost (mail.clermont.cc [192.168.100.125]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71454-03 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:17:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pascal.devtego.net (hq.kontego.net [64.34.150.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pascal@clermont.cc) by mail.clermont.cc (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58631A8D2A for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:17:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4F10315C.6070809@clermont.cc> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:27:56 -0500 From: "Pascal S. Clermont" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120103 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Bladecenters and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:48:12 -0000 Hi I am currently seeking a bladecenter solution that is supported by FreeBSD. As much as I would enjoy buying one and test it out, this method could come out very expensive. we need to replace our old IBM Bladecenter by more recent equipment. I have looked at ixsystems but they only provide a solution that supports ethernet/infiniband modules. I am wandering if a solution such as a bridgex (http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=products_dyn&product_family=54&menu_section=52) could give me the best of both worlds? but I have never played with any similar device. Does anyone have any current bladecenter hardware that is running FreeBSD? Ideally this bladecenter would possess Fibre Channel modules in order to speak directly with our current SAN. Any gotchas, I should be aware of? Pascal