From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 16:24:23 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 63C3A16A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44CD43D48 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:24:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j89GQGb38088; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Remy de Ruysscher" , Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:24:07 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <20050909090835.9ABAF43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with 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: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:24:23 -0000 Your not going to find much because when people don't have problems with something they generally don't post about it. Also, there's a couple different hardware configurations for the DL360, that model number is kind of a catchall. The biggest complaint about these is with the SCSI RAID controller there is lack of software for online management of the array - if a disk dies your pretty much stuck at looking at the lights on the front of the box to tell you that one's dead. HP did write a raid management utility for these for Red Hat linux perhaps if you went to HP and waved a lot of cash for a large purchase of these servers around they might be convinced to release the source code for that driver for it to be ported over. I take it you have checked out http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Remy de >Ruysscher >Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:08 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with FreeBSD? > > >Hi, > >We are about to invest in a new server farm, which will consist of the >HP Proliant DL-360 (2Gb ram, 2x 3.0Ghz Xeon, >2x 73Gb SCSI 15k, RAID-1, redundant powersupply, iLO). We have already >2 of these beauties running, but the management >wants "proof" this server is robust and stable for FreeBSD 5.4 >/ MySQL / >Apache 2 / PHP usage (webserver/mailserver). > >I feel very confident about this machine, but they want some sort of >customer recommendations, URLs, FreeBSD support/testen as >"proof". Since >it's i386 it has tier-1 support, but that is not enough. We have had >very bad experiences with the HP Proliant DL-140's (which I >rejected BTW). > >Yes I have googled but found little useable links. If you have >any URLs, >or you use such a machine with FreeBSD 5.x please let me know! > >Thanks for you help! > >Regards, >Remy. > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: >8/31/2005 >