From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 22:33:00 2009 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 0EB69106564A for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98638FC0C for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:32:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1622119E019; Fri, 1 May 2009 00:32:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1B1A19E023; Fri, 1 May 2009 00:32:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49FA2718.8050803@quip.cz> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 00:32:56 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Louis Kowolowski References: <49F9A324.8090007@quip.cz> <31531C02-AC38-4535-8FFC-8518CDF2E9B4@cryptomonkeys.org> In-Reply-To: <31531C02-AC38-4535-8FFC-8518CDF2E9B4@cryptomonkeys.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: experiences with Supermicro Twin servers? (6016TT / 6026TT / 6015TW) 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: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:33:00 -0000 Louis Kowolowski wrote: > On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> Hi all, >> are there somebody with some experiences (bad or good) with >> Supermicro Twin servers? Mainly with 2U model 6026TT-TF or 1U model >> 6016TT-TF build on top of Intel 5520 Tylersburg (or any other?) >> >> We would like to buy some Twin servers, but I do not have chance to >> test it before. >> Are there any know problems with Twin servers generally, or are there >> any issus with FreeBSD 7.x with used CPU / chipsets / NICs? >> > I own 2 personally, and my employer has 2 also. I'm pleased with > them. Thus far, they've run a year w/o any issues. They were > purchased from iX Systems(.com). Can you please post the model number of your servers? > Things you should be aware of, at least for the 1U units (I don't have > the 2U). FreeBSD 7.0R didn't support booting off USB media. The IP > KVM, while it works wonderfully, provides virtual media that show up as > USB. 7.0 booted well from USB media on my Sun Fire X2100 M2 servers, but I know there were (are) problems with booting FreeBSD on some motherboards. I have problems with 7.0 on HP ML110 G5. 7.1 is booting OK on this HP ML110 G5. Did you try booting some newer versions on your servers? > They only have 1 PCI-e slot, I filled mine with the IP KVM dedicated > interface. Do you have any other issues with IPMI + KVM as posted by Andrew Snow? > Don't use the onboard "RAID" it's somewhere between unreliable and > non-functional. It shows up as either Intel matrix, or Adaptec host RAID. > > I've been using them with ZFS and gmirror. Fast, solid, happy. Same here, I have gmirror on all those entry level servers and I am testing ZFS on one of them. Thank you for your advice. Miroslav Lachman