From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 13:48:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B076416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:48:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1-b.inoc.net (mx1-b.inoc.net [64.246.131.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2490143D39 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:48:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rblayzor@inoc.net) Received: from [192.168.0.16] (noc-gw0-fe.dc1-alb.inoc.net [64.246.129.30]) by mx1-b.inoc.net (build v5.2.7) with ESMTP id 20913659 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: <42383942.2000200@inoc.net> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:48:50 -0500 From: Robert Blayzor Organization: Independent Network Operations Consortium, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dell PowerEdge 1855 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:48:52 -0000 I'd like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers running on either FreeBSD_4 or FreeBSD_5. I'm looking to deploy several servers and I know that the 1850's will run just fine. I have concerns over the PERC4/im and the ethernet controllers on the 1855's. I assume since the 1855's have Intel Gig-E controllers they use the em driver, which I've had good luck with in the past. Apparently the 1855's integrated RAID uses the LSI (mpt) driver. I've heard mixed results on this with earlier versions of 4.x and 5.x, but nothing in the latest releases, 4.10+ and 5.3. Can anyone share their experiences with performance and stability on these machines? TIA -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor\@(inoc.net|gmail.com) PGP: http://www.inoc.net/~dev/ Key fingerprint = 1E02 DABE F989 BC03 3DF5 0E93 8D02 9D0B CB1A A7B0 If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0