Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
On Monday 22 March 2004 16:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > > PostgreSQL database usage. > Well, back when I was in traineeship for school, we had an PE2650 running FreeBSD 5.1. It was a tad unstable, since we had frequent kernel panics. However, one day my mentor re-compiled the kernel with newer sources, and it was rock solid. Probably some problems with the RAID controller, he said. I don't have any experiences with 4.X though, but I think it will be working just fine. It's a production release after all. So if you run into any problems, it might be the RAID controller. Cheers, Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
> > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > PostgreSQL database usage. We had a 2650 for a while and I was using it for development with FreeBSD. It worked fine - until another group here stole it for their stuff so we had to come up with a different machine a 1550 and a 4650, both of which also run FreeBSD fine. The 4650 has a raid controller, but we haven't made much use of it for raid stuff yet. You might want to get larger disks. The 18GBs are already small in this world. I think they have 36GB that do 15k RPM, though I think that on the list I looked at last week at DELL the 72 GB disk only did 10K RPM. jerry > PowerEdge 2650 > Processor 2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz > Memory 1.0GB DDR, 2X512 DIMMS > Hard Drive Backplane 5 Bay (1x5) Hot Plug SCSI Hard Drive Backplane > Hard Drive Configuration On-Board RAID 5 > 1st Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 2nd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 3rd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 4th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 5th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > Primary Controller PERC3-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Ch- > Embedded RAID > Floppy Drive 1.44MB Diskette Drive > First Network Adapter Intel Pro 100S NIC w/ or w/o IP SEC Encryption > Optical Device 24X IDE Internal CD ROM > Power Supplies Redundant Power Supply, without Y-cord > Rack Rails VersaRails for Non-Dell 4-Post Rack > > Apprecite comments; > > Dave > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Dave wrote: > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > PostgreSQL database usage. > > PowerEdge 2650 > Processor 2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz > Memory 1.0GB DDR, 2X512 DIMMS > Hard Drive Backplane 5 Bay (1x5) Hot Plug SCSI Hard Drive Backplane > Hard Drive Configuration On-Board RAID 5 > 1st Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 2nd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 3rd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 4th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 5th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > Primary Controller PERC3-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Ch- > Embedded RAID > Floppy Drive 1.44MB Diskette Drive > First Network Adapter Intel Pro 100S NIC w/ or w/o IP SEC Encryption > Optical Device 24X IDE Internal CD ROM > Power Supplies Redundant Power Supply, without Y-cord > Rack Rails VersaRails for Non-Dell 4-Post Rack I've two similar 2650 systems (diffferences are: 5x73 GB RAID 5, Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet) running FreeBSD 4.9 without any problem. Regards Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ ___ GWDG / __/__ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__//___// Germany ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Dave wrote: > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > PostgreSQL database usage. Well, have had some 2650 under my fingertips for deployment, but due to specs from the projects, no one of them actually runs BSD in production. Some short tests revolved no problems with a 4.9, RAID working fine, but not tested on really high loads. The only problem I ran into ist the mechanical mounting of that box in a standard Rack. Dell (at least in Europe) uses 4-post Racks, with square holes. The rails only have some length adjustment of less then 2 inch, so when the distance of the front and rear posts is too far apart, or too close together, then it won't fit. The VersaRails are used for mounting in Racks with round holes, and have similar limitations. On their Website Dell have some diagram with exact measurements for VersaRails, check this out before ordering. To make the whole stuff more bizarre, I asked Dell what the front/rear-distance of their own (mostly OEM-relabelled Racks like Rittal with fixed posts) is, no answer yet. Also some rails from a 2550 fitted in one rack, but the rails of a 1750 (the new 1Ubox) were 2 mm short :-(( Another try would be the new Intel or relabelled Sun boxes, like the V65x from Sun, also verry nice hardware inside... Well, apart from mounting (check your racks!) I see no disadvantage... HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9
We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive PostgreSQL database usage. PowerEdge 2650 Processor 2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz Memory 1.0GB DDR, 2X512 DIMMS Hard Drive Backplane 5 Bay (1x5) Hot Plug SCSI Hard Drive Backplane Hard Drive Configuration On-Board RAID 5 1st Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI 2nd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI 3rd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI 4th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI 5th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Primary Controller PERC3-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Ch- Embedded RAID Floppy Drive 1.44MB Diskette Drive First Network Adapter Intel Pro 100S NIC w/ or w/o IP SEC Encryption Optical Device 24X IDE Internal CD ROM Power Supplies Redundant Power Supply, without Y-cord Rack Rails VersaRails for Non-Dell 4-Post Rack Apprecite comments; Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
