On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:44:01AM -0500, Bryan Allen wrote: > They're solid, and they fly.
That's what I hoped to hear. > You can pick up RAM cheap from crucial, and get disk sleds from memoryx > (541-2123) so you don't have to pay disk markup. This is not an issue. The one I'll have at hand has 4GB RAM, which is more than what is currently supported by the OS. > I do not use the SAS RAID card, and couldn't speak its being supported by > OpenBSD regardless. (I have a J4200 plugged into the non-RAID SAS card, > because > ZFS > hardware RAID.) Having at least RAID1 hardware would be nice for resilence in case of a disk failure. I won't even touch the ZFS part, I don't want to even accidentally start falmewars! ;) > You may find that you'll need to disable some of the em(4) ports so you can > get > access to the Service Processor. I run OpenBSD on my X2100 M2s and have to > disable bge* (via config(8)) so I can get at the SP. Just something to keep in > mind when provisioning. Having a few ports on the x4170 is nice for many purposes. LOM is nice too, but I can use a serial console if the box comes with a serial port. Have to check this. thanks a lot Luca
