From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 14:20:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4639E16A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6655E43D46 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 9481 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2005 14:20:14 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 9384, pid: 9477, t: 2.2682s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Oct 2005 14:20:12 -0000 Message-ID: <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:20:05 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=7.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:17 -0000 Arun Raman wrote: >Hi, > >Had anyone successfully installed FreeBSD (any version) on a IBM blade server? > > I would love to run it on our LS 20 BladeCenter blades (Dual Core, Dual Opteron). But we don't have local disks, only SAN. And FreeBSD totally lacks multipathing and failover-support for the integrated Qlogic card (or just about any FC-card). So, this is one more place where I can say "Goodbye" to FreeBSD and "Hello" to RHEL. I found an old posting from Pavel J. Dawidek, claiming to have written a complete MP-solution (GEOM_ROME): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2004-January/000064.html But it seemed to be "closed source" back then - I wonder what the status is nowadays. cheers, Rainer