Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:24:07 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Remy de Ruysscher" <remy@unix-asp.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFBFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050909090835.9ABAF43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Your not going to find much because when people don't have problems with something they generally don't post about it. Also, there's a couple different hardware configurations for the DL360, that model number is kind of a catchall. The biggest complaint about these is with the SCSI RAID controller there is lack of software for online management of the array - if a disk dies your pretty much stuck at looking at the lights on the front of the box to tell you that one's dead. HP did write a raid management utility for these for Red Hat linux perhaps if you went to HP and waved a lot of cash for a large purchase of these servers around they might be convinced to release the source code for that driver for it to be ported over. I take it you have checked out http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Remy de >Ruysscher >Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:08 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Recommendations on Proliant DL-360 server with FreeBSD? > > >Hi, > >We are about to invest in a new server farm, which will consist of the >HP Proliant DL-360 (2Gb ram, 2x 3.0Ghz Xeon, >2x 73Gb SCSI 15k, RAID-1, redundant powersupply, iLO). We have already >2 of these beauties running, but the management >wants "proof" this server is robust and stable for FreeBSD 5.4 >/ MySQL / >Apache 2 / PHP usage (webserver/mailserver). > >I feel very confident about this machine, but they want some sort of >customer recommendations, URLs, FreeBSD support/testen as >"proof". Since >it's i386 it has tier-1 support, but that is not enough. We have had >very bad experiences with the HP Proliant DL-140's (which I >rejected BTW). > >Yes I have googled but found little useable links. If you have >any URLs, >or you use such a machine with FreeBSD 5.x please let me know! > >Thanks for you help! > >Regards, >Remy. > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: >8/31/2005 >
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