Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blade Servers w/ SAN backend ... anyone doing this? Message-ID: <20050915084132.GC40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050914145231.N1170@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050914145231.N1170@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Wed, 2005-Sep-14 15:22:32 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >From what little I've learnt so far, there is an HP Fiber Channel >controller that is used to connect the Blade to the SAN, but I can't find >anywhere that indicates that there is a FreeBSD driver for it ... A model number, chipset or PCI ID would be helpful here. If it's integrated FC controller then what model blade is it? >Also, another thing that was mentioned to me was the ability to 'boot on >SAN', instead of having drives in the Blade itself ... is this something >that can be done with FreeBSD, and, if so, is there anywhere on the web I >can read up on this? Booting is reliant on the BIOS - if the BIOS supports booting off a disk-like device then you can (AFAIK) be sure that FreeBSD will boot. Getting beyond booting depends on the kernel having a suitable driver. -- Peter Jeremy
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