From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 19:50:51 2008 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 712F3106566B for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224048FC1D for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so198766wra.13 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:50:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=3KCYrlZC6jo4z1r7QIKq1fqBri7SZv/TSeAVdkQb1lE=; b=fX16j8j9Nm1rMVcEVjjbfvONxVFXJyUDYRs3yGERmVtA/aZVcyoevpGDDsO6gHwgEuf7xrd2naHv/IpfxRXazxAhW0H6ixl6suYHnjQH1IzR2jzlqETubBqODvybYbk0DFyx7DkymnrAxCyb+LuKi8mjqSRBvP1SaqMbjfQtEVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=th0SWDAxJk2nNpKjNzwRVLzL2emDgSU7Avt524JLQSSRjVMsuHICvDcLGnFNLtPqdXxxwSAtRDPxqk2kngD1jkNPi8HXPWj9/M57ngzHkuck6nFITNNeAsR4gmRVUNgHzwXeZ1+pGVKjV2QVPczkfe5e4xmv7v+OLhqi0JFfMVY= Received: by 10.140.251.1 with SMTP id y1mr851344rvh.11.1207338649997; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.192.18 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <226ae0c60804041250j5dc8f204yf3ff886867d9178e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:50:49 -0400 From: "David Robillard" To: "Maximillian Dornseif" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers 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, 04 Apr 2008 19:50:51 -0000 > Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? Hello Maximillian, I'm not using it myself, but a friend of mine is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE on IBM BladeCenter LS20, AMD Opteron 2.4GHz/800 MHz. He says the big problems are getting the BladeCenter's USB console working across reboots and multipathing the HBAs. His FreeBSD blades boot of the SAN and they all have dual HBAs. Since FreeBSD 6.1 has zero multipath support, he has to disable one of the HBA for the boot process to work. I think FreeBSD 7.0 is a *lot* better with respect to the USB console. But I have no idea about the HBA multipath support? Anyway, if you do have more specific questions, please feel free to send them to me. I'd forward them to my friend or hook you two together. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122