From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 17:05:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01D316A41F for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: from ratchet.nebcorp.com (ratchet.nebcorp.com [205.217.153.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7439B43D49 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: by ratchet.nebcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 62803D9834; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:05:35 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20050830170535.GC97419@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <20050829222939.F1044@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050829222939.F1044@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Servers (Blade & SAN) 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: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:35 -0000 On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:34:25PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I've been starting to investigate migrating from "individual servers" to a > more infrastructure approach to our servers ... namely, blade servers to > run the applications on, with a SAN backend for the data ... > > Specifically, I've been looking at the HP Blade / SAN hardware ... but, of > course, like everyone else, HP doesn't support (or plan to support) > FreeBSD ... > > So, I'm curious as to what experiences ppl have had with HP ... I have no personal experience, but http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ looked promising. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/