From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 06:33:12 2010 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 17A77106566C for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13658FC14 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fiSe1d0071zF43QADiZCpg; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:33:12 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fiaW1d00C3S48mS8kiaWw6; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:34:30 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 870DF1E3033; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:33:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:33:10 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100209063310.GA23387@icarus.home.lan> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B70FEEC.6070007@modulus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B70FEEC.6070007@modulus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:33:12 -0000 On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H > > Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board > with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It > takes up to 4GB of RAM, and there's even a version with KVM-over-LAN > for headless operation and remote management. Neat hardware. But with regards to the KVM-over-LAN stuff: it's IPMI, and Supermicro has a very, *very* long history of having shoddy IPMI support. I've been told the latter by too many different individuals in the industry (some co-workers, some work at Yahoo, some at Rackable, etc.) for me to rely on it. If you *have* to go this route, make sure you get the IPMI module which has its own dedicated LAN port on the module and ***does not*** piggyback on top of an existing LAN port on the mainboard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |