FreeBSD, HP Smart Array controllers and stuff

[Borja Marcos]

On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:

> I just wanted to ask - how do you guys deal with Smart Array controllers
> ? Do you install Linux/Solaris on these servers (I do), because FreeBSD
> doesn't have an utility to watch after the raid (I'm aware that it used
> to have one, first it was just fine, then it was required to do a lot of
> stuff to use it, and nowadays it's finally noy useable with new
> firmware)?

I own two Microserver Gen8 servers. The way to go is to set up the controller in SATA mode (no RAID)
and use ZFS.





Borja.