Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:57:45 -0400 From: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shopping for a new server Message-ID: <CAJcQMWfB_%2BL17dB6Z2GHj-H2%2B%2BUP3=eBt=ySy3_QWaxskz%2BBtw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> wrote: > Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room = at > work. =C2=A0I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 = =C2=A0has > anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? =C2=A0I'll be= using a > RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with th= is > PERC? =C2=A0The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. =C2= =A0The 2500 > currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc= . > > I Googled and found a bunch of somewhat older posts that showed some NIC > issues and some PERC issues but it looked like most issues had been > corrected by the beginning of 2011. =C2=A0Does anyone have any recent > duccess/failure stories? > > I'd probably be looking to run 8.2 RELEASE AMD or 9.0 AMD when it becomes > release. > > Thanks > > Tim I'm currently configuring FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 on an R610 with PERC H700 RAID controller. H700 uses the mfi(4) driver, I think that also goes for PERC 6/I. Network uses the bce(4) driver. No real problems to report. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be "On without Console Redirection." You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. - Max
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