On 6/13/05, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/13/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - dc, em and sk seems to be the way to go, but what to for quad port > > cards? where to find one, brand names, model numbers, revisions > > I have a number of machines deployed using the Intel PRO/1000 MT > quad GigE PCI-X cards, mostly in Dell PowerEdge systems. They > work great, though I'm not really pushing the limits. >
Which Dell server do you have? Are you doing port trunking with that Quad GigE cards (i mean: a single I/O channel of 4 GigE?) Thanks for your feedback. > > > Any one tried the low end on DELL servers (tower models)? > > TMK, no Dell server offers a supported SATA controller, this includes the > low-end rackmount systems with an embedded SATA controller. Go SCSI. > > Many rackmount Dell products (e.g. PE1850) are available with hardware > RAID on an ami "MegaRAID" controller, these work great with OpenBSD, > as noted by Stuart Henderson. > > > > or is it a better move to build your own by ordering parts, > > if so, what is popular here? > > If you need a support contract on the hardware, rack-dense servers, > or are looking for a highly available server with dual-power and a hot > swap drive enclosure, then building your own may not be an option. > > > > What I am looking for is HW mirroring of drives with hotswap for > > webservers and quadport nic's > > The ability to hot-swap drives requires that everything in the chain > must support hot swap -- the controller, the drive, and the SCSI > enclosure or backplane. This is where buying an integrated server > pays off -- if you blow something up in the process of hot-swapping > drives, you just have one vendor to deal with, no finger-pointing. > > Kevin Kadow
