On 2012-04-04, Kostas Zorbadelos <kzo...@otenet.gr> wrote: > Hello all, > > we are about to engage a procurement procedure of servers. There is a > high probability to purchase DELL hardware. I want OpenBSD to be > supported on the hardware. I have 2 broad options > > - Go with PowerEdge R410 > - Go with PowerEdge R620 (latest generation of servers) > > The first option has only a single PCIe slot so I cannot have hot > swappable disks AND Intel Ethernet interfaces (preferred from Broadcom > but unfortunately Broadcom is on-board and I cannot get rid of them).
I haven't come across any problems with bnx(4). Did you look at 2U boxes at all? > The second option has the disadvantages of recent hardware (= can be > unsupported). My main concerns are the PERC controller, where I saw that > PERC 310 is supported in mfi(4) and the Intel NICs (these servers come > with Intel Ethernet I350, still unsupported from what I saw, they are on > the hardware wanted list). > > The machines will be bought and put to use in at least 6 months from > now, one or two OpenBSD releases will have been made. What do you think? > Will the hardware be supported by then? > > As you can tell I do not control the procurement procedure, but I can > ask for specific DELL hardware. > > Regards, > > Kostas > So your choice is between hardware which should already work in OpenBSD and hardware which (at least the nics) is known not to work yet but might work sometime in the future. Nobody here can make that decision for you :)
