On Sep 15, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Russell Howe wrote:
Johan Strvm wrote, sometime around 15/09/08 15:46:
Well, the main questions is if DL360/DL320 & OpenBSD is working
good together, the rest is only me thinking out loud :)
They work fine for me.
I have a pair of DL320 G5 machines each with a quad port Intel Pro/
1000 PT card in them and they do all our vlan routing and pass
traffic off into an OSPF area on its way to the internet.
Sounds good. Are you using only these quad ports? Or the onboard too?
I've been thinking about using one onboard to external, one for pfsync
and then get a dualport NIC where both ports are bonded to the switch.
Since I will do both external and internal routing (but I'm not sure I
will even be able to get that performance out of the box so might be a
none-problem), it would be nice to have 2GBit in case I actually push
1 gig of traffic on the external interface (in which case the internal
would be full too and thus internal routing would suffer)..
You don't happen to have any numbers on performance do you?
iLO is fine - just set it up for serial console (if you want a GUI
console you have to buy an 'Advanced iLO' license, but it's really
not needed for a router box). You'll probably want to flip the iLO
virtual serial port to be the 1st serial port, just to make life
simpler.
Yeah, openbsd works pretty good with the serial console, but how is it
with BIOS etc? If I recall correct one can access RBSU (HPs rom boot
thingy) etc from text console too. How is it with bootloader support
for console? That works all the way right? Never used it myself in
openbsd.
The DL320 can have proper RAID, but only if you buy an additional
controller. I use a pair of 80G SATA drives with the onboard
controller and they work fine (the box doesn't really do much disk I/
O - all the network monitoring and graphing is elsewhere).
Yep, thats my plan too (or well 250G since 250G is almost as cheap as
80G, and we are using 250G in other machines, no need for different
spares), and use software raid. One thing I'm worried about though is
if one disk fails, will the BIOS be able to boot from the other disk
with a broken/empty disk in the first slot? I haven't seen any
indications in the BIOS about being able to change, and I've had
similar problems before (empty disk in slot1, disk with OS in slot2,
box refusing to boot since disk1 is empty).
They are quite noisy (as are most if not all 1U servers), and
probably not very power-efficient. I didn't see the problem with a
single PSU when I'm running them with CARP, pfsync, sasync and OSPF.
The dual PSU would be for redundancy, we got two feeds in the colo
area. But if I go with 320 I'll just put one machine on each feed, so
I can take down one of them and still have the traffic flowing in in
case of power maintenance/problems.
Thanks
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Johan
