Louis Kowolowski wrote:
On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Hi all,
are there somebody with some experiences (bad or good) with
Supermicro Twin servers? Mainly with 2U model 6026TT-TF or 1U model
6016TT-TF build on top of Intel 5520 Tylersburg (or any other?)
We would like to buy some Twin servers, but I do not have chance to
test it before.
Are there any know problems with Twin servers generally, or are there
any issus with FreeBSD 7.x with used CPU / chipsets / NICs?
I own 2 personally, and my employer has 2 also. I'm pleased with
them. Thus far, they've run a year w/o any issues. They were
purchased from iX Systems(.com).
Can you please post the model number of your servers?
Things you should be aware of, at least for the 1U units (I don't have
the 2U). FreeBSD 7.0R didn't support booting off USB media. The IP
KVM, while it works wonderfully, provides virtual media that show up as
USB.
7.0 booted well from USB media on my Sun Fire X2100 M2 servers, but I
know there were (are) problems with booting FreeBSD on some
motherboards. I have problems with 7.0 on HP ML110 G5. 7.1 is booting OK
on this HP ML110 G5. Did you try booting some newer versions on your
servers?
They only have 1 PCI-e slot, I filled mine with the IP KVM dedicated
interface.
Do you have any other issues with IPMI + KVM as posted by Andrew Snow?
Don't use the onboard "RAID" it's somewhere between unreliable and
non-functional. It shows up as either Intel matrix, or Adaptec host RAID.
I've been using them with ZFS and gmirror. Fast, solid, happy.
Same here, I have gmirror on all those entry level servers and I am
testing ZFS on one of them.
Thank you for your advice.
Miroslav Lachman
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