From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 14:48:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E27016A404 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:48:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0956813C46B for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:48:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l1NEmElB095624; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:48:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:47:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070223110654.770d3904@DELOREAN.manuelmartini.it> <0a807254b24ef0be5d38e9959401a605@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <0a807254b24ef0be5d38e9959401a605@127.0.0.1> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702230947.42074.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Martin , Marian Hettwer Subject: Re: Stable on Blade server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:48:17 -0000 On Friday 23 February 2007 07:12, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to > > sustain the growinng demand of our customers. > > > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc > > we have several blade centers in our datacenters. None of them were able to > boot up 6.1-RELEASE (which was the last one I tried). In general, the IBM > blade center is crap IMO. The management capabilites (some java / vnc > applet speak KVM over IP) is completely borked. Debian Linux runs, but > FreeBSD seems to have problems with the way those IBM blades are handling > the keyboard. Dunno any details, though :) Maybe you'd like to take a look > at HP's blades. I recall that the FreeBSD project got a HP blade donation > and is using a fully equipped HP Bladecenter. Maybe HP is your way to go if > you want to use FReeBSD on blades :) > > HTH, > Marian > > PS.: If I'll find the time to do so, I'll try a pxeboot of 6.2-RELEASE on > some different blades of us. Although this won't happen before end of next > week (to busy right now). I can also recommend HP blades in general. I haven't had a chance to play with FreeBSD on one, but the hardware is solid and the management interface is good. There's a JVM-based remote console that works on most platforms I've tried as well as the IE-only one. The IE-only one has built-in floppy/CD support and a couple other tricks, but there's also a standalone JVM-based media applet. I'm 99% sure that the built-in SAS controller is supported by ciss(4), and 90% sure that the built-in ethernet controller is supported, probably by bge(4). I'm not sure about the fibre controllers. I'm setting up a few of these in the next few days so I may boot to a 6.2 CD on one of them. I'll report what I find if so. JN