From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 17:55:54 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 CE94416A492 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:55:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4A243D58 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:55:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27BD290C35; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17803-08; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87FC290C20; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 89ECB4A373; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891754A108; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:51 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:55:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Tamouh H." In-Reply-To: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:55:54 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: > I know there have been a lot of mentioning of 3Ware and SCSI. But I went > on 3WARE website and there is not a single SCSI Adapter RAID or else! > > In that case, the only real players left for SCSI are Adaptec and LSI > (aside from HP controllers). Adaptec is out of question for FreeBSD due > to its performance, so really only LSI left! In our case, where we are dealing with co-located servers, we've finally settled on HP Proliant servers ... not only do I like the SAS drives (4 in a 1U rack so that I can use RAID1+0), but iLO is 's gift to remote administration, and the HP RAID controllers actually provide FreeBSD with usual status information without requiring some external utility ... Cost is a bit more, but when your servers are several countries south of you, and you hate disturbing the techs down there if you don't have to, the ability to see the BIOS (motherboard and RAID controller), as well as everything happening on the console ... and being able to reboot ... I'll pay the extra ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664