From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 12:37:55 2006 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 8526F16A436 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:37:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mgedv.at (mail.mgedv.at [195.3.87.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128CF43D45 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:37:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgedv.at (SMTPServer) with ESMTP id 54157186864; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:37:50 +0200 (MEST) From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" To: Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:37:56 +0200 Message-ID: <000501c669f7$696b5c00$dededede@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcZp9PiTnxClS0V2Q5eNNbQSMTjTlwAAPqhg Cc: willay@gmail.com Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nospam@mgedv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:37:55 -0000 > Our vendor preference is HP, if anyone could share their experience > with the following products (in regards of network/sata support and > anything else mentioning): > > HP DL140 G2 > HP DL145 G2 > HP DL320 G4 > HP DL360 G4 we tried dl320 g2, g3, g4, dl380 g3 with sata/ciss drives, 1-4gb ram, P4/XEON, DUAL-XEON with freebsd 5 and 6. as of the *bsd's, freebsd has the best support for the hp DL*s. sata support is not given for all embedded raid- controllers but you can still use raid 1 functionality using raidctl. hdd failures can render the system hang for 3-5sec's on sata devices but after this timeout, everything's fine. rebuild is sometimes only possible by os-command, pluggin' in the new drive is sometimes not enough ;-) nw/chipset support is working (at least on all machines we use). no performance issues, except you configure as router and you use many different irq's for all interfaces (only occurred on a machine with 8 interfaces). thermal zone / ipmi support is not really close to the vendors ideas and sometimes produces wrong numbers, but if you don't want to set fan-speed or check temp. on all mentioned devices, it's fine. also, system management like (red-power fail, red-fan fail, etc...) is not really talking to the os and vice versa, therefore you'll have to check for errors like this on your own. furthermore, bios/fw upgrades can sometimes be really annoying, if you don't have usb-boot-support you'd run into troubles because hp only delivers them for some specific os's and freebsd is not on the list. btw. if somebody reads this and thinks: hey, bullshit i know a way of doing this better and it works fine with my DL, please let me know! best regards and good luck w. the hw :-)