On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Hi all,
are there somebody with some experiences (bad or good) with
Supermicro Twin servers? Mainly with 2U model 6026TT-TF or 1U model
6016TT-TF build on top of Intel 5520 Tylersburg (or any other?)
We would like to buy some Twin servers, but I do not have chance to
test it before.
Are there any know problems with Twin servers generally, or are
there any issus with FreeBSD 7.x with used CPU / chipsets / NICs?
I own 2 personally, and my employer has 2 also. I'm pleased with
them. Thus far, they've run a year w/o any issues. They were
purchased from iX Systems(.com).
Things you should be aware of, at least for the 1U units (I don't have
the 2U). FreeBSD 7.0R didn't support booting off USB media. The IP
KVM, while it works wonderfully, provides virtual media that show up
as USB.
They only have 1 PCI-e slot, I filled mine with the IP KVM dedicated
interface.
Don't use the onboard "RAID" it's somewhere between unreliable and
non-functional. It shows up as either Intel matrix, or Adaptec host
RAID.
I've been using them with ZFS and gmirror. Fast, solid, happy.
--
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