From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Dec 31 13:16:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F1437B406 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.engr.ucsb.edu (mail.engr.ucsb.edu [128.111.53.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9010D43ED8 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shvetima@engineering.ucsb.edu) Received: from ecipc056.engr.ucsb.edu ([128.111.53.119]) by mail.engr.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18TTkP-0004Ly-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:16:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: Shvetima Gulati X-X-Sender: To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Blade servers and BSD (fwd) Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, We are planning on purchasing blade servers for our datacenter. We want to run FreeBSD on these. We are currently considering looking at Dell PowerEdge 1655MC, IBM Bladecenter, RLX serverblade and HP Proliant BLp series. If anyone has used any of these machines with FreeBSD, we would be happy to know about your experiences and recommendations. Thanks for your time, -Shvetima. P.s. Please cc me on the reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message