From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 21:26:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAE3106567A for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:26:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msaad@datapipe.com) Received: from exchfe01.datapipe-corp.net (exchfe01.datapipe-corp.net [64.106.130.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68408FC0A for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msaad@datapipe.com) Received: from cookbook.lan (192.168.128.20) by exchfe01.datapipe-corp.net (64.106.130.71) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.0.783.2; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:26:17 -0400 Message-ID: <484C4E6D.7060306@datapipe.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:26:05 -0400 From: Mark Saad User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <3cc535c80806071158h44ec9be1pbe72ca6711016bde@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cc535c80806071158h44ec9be1pbe72ca6711016bde@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Andy Kosela Subject: Re: Current status of support for high end SAN hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: msaad@datapipe.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:26:20 -0000 Andy I am currently using HP MSA1500cs SAN setups on FreeBSD 7 and 6.3 using qlogic cards in HP DL380G4 and G5 servers. I am not yet using multipath fiber channel which is supported in 7 and I want to test this out soon. As for Redhat ES 4 and 5 I am also using the same hardware setup , I have to say that RedHat ES4 works better for me the Enterprise 5 . ES5 has some odd ball networking issues, when you upgrade from say update 0 -> 1 or 1 -> 2. For some reason Redhat decided that it needed to remove your configs for eth0 as part of the upgrade. I would say to look at using 64Bit FreeBSD 7-RELEASE and ZFS as the filesystem on the SAN. ZFS is hands down better then EXT3+LVM . Andy Kosela wrote: > Hi all, > What is the current status of support for high end SAN hardware in FreeBS= D? > I'm especially interested in support for HP EVA/XP disk arrays, Qlogic > HBAs, multipathing. > How FreeBSD compares in this environment to RHEL 5? > > -- > Andy Kosela > ora et labora > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Mark Saad Managed UNIX Support DataPipe Managed Global IT Services () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments This message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you ar= e not the intended recipient, please advise us immediately and delete this = message. See http://www.datapipe.com/emaildisclaimer.aspx for further info= rmation on confidentiality and the risks of non-secure electronic communica= tion. If you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message a= nd we will send the contents to you.