From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 4 04:07:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E22810656A6 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matts@bmihosting.com) Received: from mail.bmihosting.com (bmihosting.com [66.55.146.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D914A8FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bmihosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2428A43CF for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:28:53 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bmihosting.com Received: from mail.bmihosting.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spark.bmihosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oMHAZA48m70T for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:28:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.15.2] (cpe-66-27-116-189.san.res.rr.com [66.27.116.189]) by mail.bmihosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5B2E18A43BA for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:28:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Szubrycht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:28:52 -0800 Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: 7.x on Dell R900? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:07:23 -0000 Hello List, I cannot find any fresh information on compatibility of Dell PowerEdge R900 and FreeBSD after googling for several hours, so I decided to ask here. If this is not the right place, please redirect me to. All of our servers run FreeBSD with one exception - a CentOS machine, which adds to the overall maintenance workload and keeping up to date. Back in the day, after getting the R900 (without prior OS compatibility research), the word was that FreeBSD will not run on this hardware and we ended up installing CentOS. That was well over a year ago and I am wondering if anyone could share some insight into the current compatibility status, installation/operation pitfalls and any other tips that would allow me to get away from Linux on this R900 box and create a homogeneous server-space environment with FreeBSD 7.x. Here are some basic specs, I can provide more details if needed: 4 x 4-core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon CPU's 32GB RAM LSILogic PERC 4e/Di Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM PERC 6/i Rev: 1.11 Any creative help will be appreciated. Thank you. Best Regards, Matthew Szubrycht