From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 11:29:28 2003 Return-Path: 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 5BA4837B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.1u.ca (mail.1u.ca [216.138.197.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9AB743F93 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM) Received: (qmail 74105 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jun 2003 18:29:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.freebsdsystems.com) (lnb@freebsdsystems.com@192.168.0.27) by angus.1u.ca with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 18:29:04 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lnb@freebsdsystems.com) by mail.freebsdsystems.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:29:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3677.192.168.0.2.1056652144.squirrel@mail.freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626175859.GA9420@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <29950-220036426165441966@M2W051.mail2web.com> <20030626175859.GA9420@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:29:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Lanny Baron" To: "Brooks Davis" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: "akanwar@digitarchy.com" cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1u rackmount servers. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:29:28 -0000 Take a look at our Servers: http://www.FreeBSDsystems.com Lanny Brooks Davis said: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:54:41PM -0400, akanwar@digitarchy.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am looking for user recommendations for 1u rack mount servers that >> work >> with FreeBSD (4.8). These will be placed in a colo facility so my >> requirements are: >> >> 1) Basic Lights out managemant via serial console >> 2) 2.66 or better processor >> 3) at least 2 gigE NICs >> 4) IDE/SCSI 80GB drive >> >> I am most concerned about good drivers for (3) and (4). > > I've had good luck with the Intel OEM 1U Xeon boxes. We've got about 70 > of them. We haven't used the managment functionality extensivly though. > You can get them from a number of vendors. We bought ours from Iron > Systems. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD FreeBSD Systems, Inc / Freedom Technologies Corp. http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM 1.877.963.1900 +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~