Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:34:08 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd running on used Rack server Message-ID: <CAEC7391V_qTzjpXOQ8Vdhq1ZBwqtt-0jBXGPyj88X9BVQjdAdw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200717211305.79C4F1D2C83C@ary.qy> References: <20200717192349.GA40739@geeks.org> <20200717211305.79C4F1D2C83C@ary.qy>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 14:13 John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > In article <20200717192349.GA40739@geeks.org> you write: > >You would want to play to FreeBSD's strengths. Ie. especially ZFS. > >Ie many Dell servers would have a RAID card in them instead of a HBA for > direct JBOD support. > >ZFS really works best with direct access to the disks as a JBOD. > > My server is a Dell PowerEdge R410 with two Xeon CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and > four disks > set up as a pair of ZFS mirrors. Works great. > > My main complaint has nothing to do with FreeBSD. The iDRAC remote > console software only > works with Java 6 or older so I have to keep a deliberately not-updated > old PC around to > connect to it. > I used to work for that company on the M1000 team. The iDRAC firmware was one of those nasty little projects where D forced Americans to train their Indian and Chinese replacements before laying them off to please Wall Street. > >
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