Hi, I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to sustain the growinng demand of our customers. We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc bye -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070223/416e7135/signature.pgp
Martin wrote:> Hi, > > I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to > sustain the growinng demand of our customers. > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/miscI don't have any particular experience with Blade servers in general, but perhaps this article is some help for you: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/IBM_Blade_-_english Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj
Hi there, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin <list@manuelmartini.it> wrote:> > Hi, > > I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to > sustain the growinng demand of our customers. > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc >we have several blade centers in our datacenters. None of them were able to boot up 6.1-RELEASE (which was the last one I tried). In general, the IBM blade center is crap IMO. The management capabilites (some java / vnc applet speak KVM over IP) is completely borked. Debian Linux runs, but FreeBSD seems to have problems with the way those IBM blades are handling the keyboard. Dunno any details, though :) Maybe you'd like to take a look at HP's blades. I recall that the FreeBSD project got a HP blade donation and is using a fully equipped HP Bladecenter. Maybe HP is your way to go if you want to use FReeBSD on blades :) HTH, Marian PS.: If I'll find the time to do so, I'll try a pxeboot of 6.2-RELEASE on some different blades of us. Although this won't happen before end of next week (to busy right now).
> Maybe HP is your way to go if you want to use FReeBSD on blades :)I run FreeBSD on a lot of HP blades and can confirm that it works very nicely and is rock solid stable. have been doing this since 5.X and am now running 6.2 -pcf.
> > Maybe HP is your way to go if you want to use FReeBSD on blades :) > > I run FreeBSD on a lot of HP blades and can confirm that it works very > nicely and is rock solid stable. have been doing this since 5.X and > am now running 6.2Assume you refer to the older hp-blades and *not* the newer c-class ones. The c-class-blades do *not* currently support the build-in NIC due to a SerDes-issue. regards Claus
> Assume you refer to the older hp-blades and *not* the newer c-class > ones. The c-class-blades do *not* currently support the build-in NIC > due to a SerDes-issue.Ah, thats worth knowing! yes, our blades are a couple of years old so would be b-class ones.
Il giorno Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:12:48 +0000 Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> ha scritto:> > Assume you refer to the older hp-blades and *not* the newer c-class > > ones. The c-class-blades do *not* currently support the build-in NIC > > due to a SerDes-issue. > > Ah, thats worth knowing! yes, our blades are a couple of years old > so would be b-class ones. >which type of hp blade work with 6.2? thanks
> which type of hp blade work with 6.2?Ours are BL20p G3 and BL20p G2 blades according to the iLo. -pete.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:38:16PM +0000, Pete French wrote..> > which type of hp blade work with 6.2? > > Ours are BL20p G3 and BL20p G2 blades according to the iLo.How did you install FreeBSD on them? Using RDP? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
> How did you install FreeBSD on them? Using RDP?RDP ? I installed using iLo - just connect the ISO image of the CD as virtual media and you can then boot and install as if it was a normal PC with a drive in the front of it. -pete.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:05:54PM +0000, Pete French wrote..> > How did you install FreeBSD on them? Using RDP? > > RDP ? I installed using iLo - just connect the ISO image ofRemote Deployment Pack. Software from Altiris. Really neat.> the CD as virtual media and you can then boot and install as > if it was a normal PC with a drive in the front of it.OK, I see. I have some BL35p and BL25p at work that I want to try at some point. ENOTIME sofar -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
Hi, I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to sustain the growinng demand of our customers. We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc bye
Hi, I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to sustain the growinng demand of our customers. We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc bye
Martin <list@manuelmartini.it> writes:> We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/miscIf you use FreeBSD don't look upon IBM blades at all. I've installed few freebsd 5.4 on IBM HS20 blades. If you need console, the only way to get there is through java web interface that sucks, brakes and crashes constantly. Because the keyboard is not supported you have to use it. Everything else also sucked. We had two blade chassis with 28 blade servers and I have never been so frustrated like I was with them and IBM people that did not solve our problem. -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka Witco
----- "Marko Lerota" <mlerota@iskon.hr> wrote:> Martin <list@manuelmartini.it> writes: > > > We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: > can > > anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc > > If you use FreeBSD don't look upon IBM blades at all. I've installed > few > freebsd 5.4 on IBM HS20 blades. If you need console, the only way to > get there is through java web interface that sucks, brakes and crashes > > constantly. Because the keyboard is not supported you have to use it. > > Everything else also sucked. We had two blade chassis with 28 blade > servers > and I have never been so frustrated like I was with them and IBM > people > that did not solve our problem.FreeBSD gets confused on IBM BladeCenter's and attaches to the PS/2 controller, while the actual keyboard is on USB. This is also a problem on many desktop systems, where users only have a USB keyboard. Anyways, FreeBSD is slowly growing a working keyboard mux, so FreeBSD will attach to all available keyboard controllers, and accept input for any attached keyboards. Linux and Windows have this ability already. In the mean time, it is possible to use device hints, and convince FreeBSD to attach the USB keyboard only. I quite like the IBM BladeCenter's. Way better than Dell blades for sure. Tom