hp ProLiant DL360 G4 or G5 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE?

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Sat Jul 15 03:56:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Christoph Schug wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
>> Joakim Platbarzdis <joakim at nobleentertainment.com> wrote:
>> > I'm planning on deploying a server using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.
>> >
>> > What is your suggestion, should I go for hp ProLiant DL360 G4 or is
>> > there any sense in waiting for G5, that will be available to me
>> > within a few weeks?
>> >
>> > Any compatability issues to look forward to? I know very little of
>> > FreeBSD (this is my first attempt).
>>
>> We're running 6.1 on DL360 G2, G3 and G4 for several weeks.
>> No issues so far, except there doesn't seem to be a way to
>> monitor the hardware (fans and temperature) under FreeBSD.
>> (G5 vs. G4 shouldn't make a difference in that regard,
>> though.)
>
> The SAS models of generation G4 and all G5 have SAS RAID controllers.
> While at least some of them should be supported be ciss(4) as well, I
> would rather stick to DL360 G4 SCSI model since its SmartArray 6i RAID
> controller is well tested.

I'm running the HP DL360 G4p / SAS with the RAID controller and ciss 
driver, and haven't experienced any problems so far ... have 2 servers 
online so far, and a third on order ...

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