From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 08:41:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEC116A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:41:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC8143D45; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:41:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8F8fXv1026940 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:36 +1000 Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (localhost.alcatel.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8F8fXSR045149; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au) Received: (from pjeremy@localhost) by cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id j8F8fW2D045148; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:41:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20050915084132.GC40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20050914145231.N1170@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050914145231.N1170@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blade Servers w/ SAN backend ... anyone doing this? 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: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:41:39 -0000 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