From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 17 21:13:14 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FF636EC49 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B7kP45ChSz4YDh for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 1419 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2020 21:13:06 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=588.5f121462.k2007; bh=irsD5y75FBF7AkpazFTYnuEts4+lC2w4sgJQd/lggtk=; b=qJBFIWODSNnIQqBPh0eihax4YoLURt61F+uEO9WtIZb5Lpyu/tWoj07Pk3O2ROZ/ZQs/RfSlFSdrPz6y8voNuYFbvGZft/KL0xkIrMUb+efx7UEOc2bXvo9VHgFkIK+z13iGRcrqfRAAp3PwMz3w/c/Yozoouq42oWnTFx6IPpMbNxNriwJz4Nrx0kEZh/1fNm4ZcK5uk7hkoJNzWkPexl+0uNaDY9JSlSZFOgKV/+1JO67bB81xb5HN4oqXl6xs Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTP via TCP6; 17 Jul 2020 21:13:05 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id 79C4F1D2C83C; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:13:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: 17 Jul 2020 17:13:05 -0400 Message-Id: <20200717211305.79C4F1D2C83C@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: merlyn@geeks.org Subject: Re: Freebsd running on used Rack server In-Reply-To: <20200717192349.GA40739@geeks.org> Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B7kP45ChSz4YDh X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=iecc.com header.s=588.5f121462.k2007 header.b=qJBFIWOD; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=iecc.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of johnl@iecc.com designates 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=johnl@iecc.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.66 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.04)[-1.037]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[iecc.com:s=588.5f121462.k2007]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_MED(-2.00)[iecc.com:dkim]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2001:470:1f07:1126::/64]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.981]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[iecc.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[iecc.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.14)[-1.140]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:13:14 -0000 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. R's, John