Hello all, we are about to engage a procurement procedure of servers. There is a high probability to purchase DELL hardware. I want OpenBSD to be supported on the hardware. I have 2 broad options
- Go with PowerEdge R410 - Go with PowerEdge R620 (latest generation of servers) The first option has only a single PCIe slot so I cannot have hot swappable disks AND Intel Ethernet interfaces (preferred from Broadcom but unfortunately Broadcom is on-board and I cannot get rid of them). The second option has the disadvantages of recent hardware (= can be unsupported). My main concerns are the PERC controller, where I saw that PERC 310 is supported in mfi(4) and the Intel NICs (these servers come with Intel Ethernet I350, still unsupported from what I saw, they are on the hardware wanted list). The machines will be bought and put to use in at least 6 months from now, one or two OpenBSD releases will have been made. What do you think? Will the hardware be supported by then? As you can tell I do not control the procurement procedure, but I can ask for specific DELL hardware. Regards, Kostas -- Kostas Zorbadelos twitter:@kzorbadelos http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kzorba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- () www.asciiribbon.org - against HTML e-mail & proprietary attachments /\
