Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:22:13 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Valerio Daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for P400i controller Message-ID: <491B10C5.9020208@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <27dbfc8c0811120905o25d5f7e8yb45aca9f10e5e4cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <27dbfc8c0811120905o25d5f7e8yb45aca9f10e5e4cc@mail.gmail.com>
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Valerio Daelli schrieb: > Hi > > we plan to buy a new server for our infrastructure > and we are considering a DL360 G5. > We have a few questions: > > -is the controller well supported under FreeBSD? > Do you have any success-story about it? > We use a lot of HP servers with various controllers under various releases of FreeBSD. So far, everything works. (G3,G4,G5 - usually DL380 or DL385) > -is it possible to control the rebuild of the array via camcontrol > or any other command-line tool? Is camcontrol > the only tool to monitor the drive status or is there any port? > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/#acu The array rebuilds automatically, though, IIRC. It's just needed if you want to add an additional logical disk because you plugged in some additional drives. > We are looking for a controller that has a good support with FreeBSD. > What is your opinion? > > The Px00 controllers are OK. But for mass-storage, we're moving to Solaris + ZFS. It works great as an NFS-server for FreeBSD. Rainer
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