Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:47:41 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Martin <list@manuelmartini.it>, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: Stable on Blade server Message-ID: <200702230947.42074.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <0a807254b24ef0be5d38e9959401a605@127.0.0.1> References: <20070223110654.770d3904@DELOREAN.manuelmartini.it> <0a807254b24ef0be5d38e9959401a605@127.0.0.1>
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On Friday 23 February 2007 07:12, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin <list@manuelmartini.it> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to > > sustain the growinng demand of our customers. > > > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc > > we have several blade centers in our datacenters. None of them were able to > boot up 6.1-RELEASE (which was the last one I tried). In general, the IBM > blade center is crap IMO. The management capabilites (some java / vnc > applet speak KVM over IP) is completely borked. Debian Linux runs, but > FreeBSD seems to have problems with the way those IBM blades are handling > the keyboard. Dunno any details, though :) Maybe you'd like to take a look > at HP's blades. I recall that the FreeBSD project got a HP blade donation > and is using a fully equipped HP Bladecenter. Maybe HP is your way to go if > you want to use FReeBSD on blades :) > > HTH, > Marian > > PS.: If I'll find the time to do so, I'll try a pxeboot of 6.2-RELEASE on > some different blades of us. Although this won't happen before end of next > week (to busy right now). I can also recommend HP blades in general. I haven't had a chance to play with FreeBSD on one, but the hardware is solid and the management interface is good. There's a JVM-based remote console that works on most platforms I've tried as well as the IE-only one. The IE-only one has built-in floppy/CD support and a couple other tricks, but there's also a standalone JVM-based media applet. I'm 99% sure that the built-in SAS controller is supported by ciss(4), and 90% sure that the built-in ethernet controller is supported, probably by bge(4). I'm not sure about the fibre controllers. I'm setting up a few of these in the next few days so I may boot to a 6.2 CD on one of them. I'll report what I find if so. JN
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