From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 21:57:45 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 E76311065670 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.se) Received: from core.stromnet.se (core.stromnet.se [83.218.84.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A811B8FC22 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.se) Received: from localhost (core.stromnet.se [83.218.84.131]) by core.stromnet.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F18CD4640F; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at stromnet.se Received: from core.stromnet.se ([83.218.84.131]) by localhost (core.stromnet.se [83.218.84.135]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f52hi7WSmW9q; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from johan-mp.stromnet.se (90-224-172-102-no129.tbcn.telia.com [90.224.172.102]) by core.stromnet.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9251D46414; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:13 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <89A232E0-CB36-4EE0-B66D-DCA4AB6F20DD@stromnet.se> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= To: Pete French In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:57:41 +0100 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories? 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: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:46 -0000 First of all, nice with all these positive answers! Thank you all (without responding to each and every post:))! On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pete French wrote: >> What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) >> and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. > ... >> So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / >> P400i)? > > We have around 20 machines like that and they work beautifully. We > run 7.0/amd64 on the machines now, but we have run 6.2/i386 in the > past > and that work fine - though you will only be able to use the first > 3.5 gig of RAM. I don't have any plans on running i368, running amd64 on the supermicro box now without any problems (that I can relate to that at least). How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems at all. > > >> Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with > > We run 7.0 on these machines and it works fine - I always prefer 7.0 > to 6.3 on SMP machines as it performs better. Also 7.0 works well with > the iLO on these machines - I seem to recall when I installed 6.X that > it didn't work too well and I had to use boot floppy images. I'd say > go for 7.0 and amd64 if you can. This is where I'm a bit curious. What OS interaction does iLO do? That needs to be "compatible" i mean. On my current box I got a IPMI card that gives me (when its working..) SOL capabilities.. To what degree can I remote control with iLO? If I've understood correct, I get the exact console as on screen with kb access, over web/ssh/telnet. Is this working good? This is one of my important points for changing since its so crappy on my current box, and when the box is a couple of miles away its quite nice to have it working flawlessly.. iLO over internet? Possible, impossible? Encryption? (yes i know, not exactly freebsd related questions but.. ) Another thing, how is it with physical monitoring? Temperatures/ fanspeeds/voltage? Thank you (all)! :) -- Johan