Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:16 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers Message-ID: <20051026175916.GB45100@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de>
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:38:47PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote.. > > > > > >>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). > >> > >> > > > >FreeBSD happens to support most Qlogic based FC cards with the isp(4) > >driver. > > > > > > > > I know. It just happens that I see every LUN 4 times, due to the > multipath configuration we have! Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the storage? > Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while > rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN). THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2 -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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