HPE DL 160 Gen 10 + E208i-a

[Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh]

Julien,

On 18/09/2019 10:57, Julien Cigar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you has successfully installed FreeBSD (12) on a
> DL 160 Gen 10, is it well supported?
Yes, well, I have on a DL360 gen10, it is the 2U rack version, with a
different RAID controller, see lower.


> 
> I plan to get a model with an "HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10
> controller", from what I can read in the documentation it doesn't have
> any BBU and can be configured in HBA + pass-through mode (could someone
> confirm ?) so it should be suitable for ZFS, right?
Well, so I have experience with the P4xx series on FreeBSD, I have
installed it successfully on Gen6, Gen8, and Gen10.

The Linux Driver for RHEL from HPE suggest that the HPE E208 is a newer
HPE Microsemi Controller, using the smartpqi drivers.

FreeBSD has support for the smartpqi driver
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=smartpqi&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports
So I would say the HPE E208 should work under FreeBSD 12.


> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Julien
> 
> 
Regards,
Toshaan.


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