Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:20:25 +0200 From: Etienne Ledoux <etienne@unix.za.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: 2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12 Message-ID: <200306181139.47521.etienne@unix.za.org>
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I will have the privilage of installing something on the above mentioned hardware. I've never installed/configured hardware like this. Basically it is 2 servers connected to a exteral raid device with scsi cables. These servers can access the device at the same time. Which makes it nice for redundency and load balancing. We are going to use it as a big NFS mailstore which other mail servers will access to deliver mail (smtp/pop3, etc.). The mailservers will all be running FreeBSD (postfix, amavisd-new, courier-imap/pop3, sqwebmail,freevrrpd, etc. etc). *feerr!* I will put these servers behind a FreeBSD firewall using ipnat for round-robin load balancing. So it should eventually be a nice big redundent, load balanced mailserver behind a firewall and everybox will be running FreeBSD. My question is with regards to the servers I want to use as the NFS mailstore(2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12). Can I run FreeBSD on it too ? I guess the answer is yes? but Is FreeBSD the best option for this type of hardware and will it be difficult to configure. Or is Linux a better alternative ? I honestly have no idea what the best option is and don't want to reliase a month or two later when everything is live that I made a mistake and shouldve done something else or installed something else. tx e.
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