Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre-OS)

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:33:20AM +0100, Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:33:20AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:33:20AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But..

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:33:20AM +0100, Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But..

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:16:10PM +0100, Johan Ström wrote: The advantage to iLO is that it's the equivalent of KVM-over-IP, supporting virtual media too (read: an ISO image on your laptop/local client machine being used as a CD on the server itself, thus you can install whatever OS you want,

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:33:20AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote:

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:37:52 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IPMI is one of those things that's presented as a great idea (and it but the actual implementations done by vendors (or at least Supermicro) appears to be a complete mess. Very disappointing. Perhpas we should have

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:40:49PM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre-OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:41:53AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Str?m wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre-

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:24:27AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Joe Koberg wrote: The iLO is a completely separate management processor with its own network port. It runs its own OS and has its own IP address. It runs an SSL webserver for access. The iLO is

SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead of the default BSD scheduler. What's the advantage of ULE / disadvantage of the default? Is it specific to this hardware?

Re: SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Rong-en Fan
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead of the default BSD scheduler.

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:57 PM, David Schutt wrote: Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote: For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features), it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades I've tried, using a remote install

Re: SchedULE vs BSD scheduler - Was: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Rong-en Fan wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Those machines work very well with both FreeBSD 6 and 7. If you install FreeBSD 7, remember to enable ULE instead

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-13 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote: For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features), it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades I've tried, using a remote install CD from the Java applet (there's one for remote devices like disks,

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-13 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-13 Thread David Schutt
Johan Ström wrote: On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote: For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features), it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades I've tried, using a remote install CD from the Java applet (there's one for remote

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of the standard one. That should be fixed with the latest BTX btw. I haven't followed the BTX thread closely, but from what I remember it was about

HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly running apache + php + mysql (or at least thats where the load will be). It's not an

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. Try the -proliant mailinglist at [EMAIL

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly running apache + php + mysql (or at least thats where the load will

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16:48PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:20:42AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16:48PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. What I'm looking at is a DL360

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. ... So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? We have around 20 machines like that and they work beautifully. We run

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Claus Guttesen
What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. I've googled and looked through the list archives trying to find success stories/problem reports using FreeBSD on this box, but haven't found very

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Johan Ström wrote: What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. We have exactly that combination. You can find dmesg, pciconf, DMI etc. here: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/dmesg/hp-dl360g5/ Those

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/03/2008, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of the standard one. That should be fixed with the latest BTX btw. I haven't followed the BTX thread closely,

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 03:28:51 pm Ivan Voras wrote: On 12/03/2008, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of the standard one. That should be fixed with

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
First of all, nice with all these positive answers! Thank you all (without responding to each and every post:))! On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pete French wrote: What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems at all. I've been running it since last september - never had any problem with it, and am pretty convinced it is stable. This is where I'm a bit curious.

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Joe Koberg
The iLO is a completely separate management processor with its own network port. It runs its own OS and has its own IP address. It runs an SSL webserver for access. The iLO is accessible over the network any time the machine is plugged into power. I am not sure about IPMI access to it. The

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Pete French wrote: How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems at all. I've been running it since last september - never had any problem with it, and am pretty convinced it

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Joe Koberg wrote: The iLO is a completely separate management processor with its own network port. It runs its own OS and has its own IP address. It runs an SSL webserver for access. The iLO is accessible over the network any time the machine is plugged into

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Joe Koberg
Johan Ström wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre-OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after POST I have to have the advanced licensed option? I don't do

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Ström wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre- OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after POST I have to