On Friday 23 February 2007 07:12, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
