On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just went halfway through the "build your own custom kernel, >> manually configure partition tables, etc., etc." rituals to set up >> software RAID for OpenBSD 4.8, and have concluded that it's not >> economical the engineering time to do all that manual work for >> something available in hardware. >> >> So, I'm looking for modest servers simply act as a locked down >> external SSH server. I can lock down the OpenSSH pretty thoroughly, >> I'm just looking for modest, known-compatible server hardware. Any >> good recommendations? The listings for RAID compatibility include a >> lot of higher end cards, and for this application, RAID 1 is plenty. >> >> > > Be sure to buy two of them, for when the RAID card fails. >
My prepositions also seem to have run shrieking for the hills while writing that note. My English is usually better than that.... This is a fair point, and I did intend to buy several for various other uses as well. I'm looking at replacing/upgrading a set of hardware, so standardizing on hardware and keeping several hosts compatible with robust OpenBSD is reasonable. I'd like to start it right: even though the software RAID is available, I found the very helpful server compatibility list at http://www.armorlogic.com/openbsd-information-server-compatibility-list.html, and the RAID compatible chipset list at http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware. Problem is, the twain don't easily meet. I don't need RAID6, just RAID1, and drilling down through server specs to find whether they're compatible is.... fairly painful. And for the server compatibility list, a lot of those aren't being manufactured anymore, or are way, way more server than I need. (I just need pizza boxes, not virtualizaton clustering servers.) So, I'm looking for recommendations. Modest 1U pizza boxes? Even brand names for known-good PCI or PCIe SATA controllers would be helpful, rather than having to chew through the chipsets. (Been there done that, lots of vendors keep it really obscured, and my old favorite 3Ware got bought by LSI.....)
