From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 14:01:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0361E106566B for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903298FC1D for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm12 with SMTP id m12so594886wer.13 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.135.233 with SMTP id u83mr2300546wei.33.1326463291803; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dr7sm940272wib.3.2012.01.13.06.01.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:01:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F103938.6080604@my.gd> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:01:28 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F10315C.6070809@clermont.cc> In-Reply-To: <4F10315C.6070809@clermont.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 14:01:34 -0000 On 1/13/12 2:27 PM, Pascal S. Clermont wrote: > 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 > We're successfully running 8.2-RELEASE on Dell's PowerEdge M1000e. We don't have a SAN and thus no use for FC, so I wouldn't be able to tell you about that. Why don't you just get a manufacturer to *lend* you a chassis + 1 blade server, so that you may test ? We've done that with Dell.