Re: FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers
Maximillian Dornseif wrote: What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD IBM Blade hardware in production? The posts you saw were maybe mine: I have one such system: 6-STABLE on LS21, Opteron. You need to run at least FreeBSD 6.3 to support the network controller and possibly the QLogic FC controller. The only serious issue might be umass (compile it out from the kernel once you install the system, otherwise the boot process will wait a long time). I still didn't try 7.0-RELEASE on it so it might not work. Otherwise, the machine is working and is very solid - no problems at all once the installation and configuration is done. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers
Somebody using FreeBSD IBM Blade hardware in production? Hello Maximillian, I'm not using it myself, but a friend of mine is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE on IBM BladeCenter LS20, AMD Opteron 2.4GHz/800 MHz. He says the big problems are getting the BladeCenter's USB console working across reboots and multipathing the HBAs. His FreeBSD blades boot of the SAN and they all have dual HBAs. Since FreeBSD 6.1 has zero multipath support, he has to disable one of the HBA for the boot process to work. I think FreeBSD 7.0 is a *lot* better with respect to the USB console. But I have no idea about the HBA multipath support? Anyway, if you do have more specific questions, please feel free to send them to me. I'd forward them to my friend or hook you two together. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers
What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD IBM Blade hardware in production? Regards Maximillian Dornseif -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FReeBSD-on-IBM-Blade-Servers-tp16470687p16470687.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qlogic QMH2462 Fibre Channel on HP Blade Servers
Hello All, I'm trying to install 6.2 Release on an HP blade, but the isp driver doesn't recognize the new Qlogic fibre channel adapters. I also tried stopping at the boot loader and manually loading /boot/kernel/isp.ko, but the fibre channel still doesn't work. Because of the way the blades are managed, I can't capture the device info at boot time. However, they are seen as serial fibre channel devices by pci. Is there a patch for isp forthcoming? Any suggestions? (I'm only subscribed to freebsd-isp, so please copy me with any replies) Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blade Servers w/ SAN backend ... anyone doing this?
On Wed, 2005-Sep-14 15:22:32 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: From what little I've learnt so far, there is an HP Fiber Channel controller that is used to connect the Blade to the SAN, but I can't find anywhere that indicates that there is a FreeBSD driver for it ... A model number, chipset or PCI ID would be helpful here. If it's integrated FC controller then what model blade is it? Also, another thing that was mentioned to me was the ability to 'boot on SAN', instead of having drives in the Blade itself ... is this something that can be done with FreeBSD, and, if so, is there anywhere on the web I can read up on this? Booting is reliant on the BIOS - if the BIOS supports booting off a disk-like device then you can (AFAIK) be sure that FreeBSD will boot. Getting beyond booting depends on the kernel having a suitable driver. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blade Servers w/ SAN backend ... anyone doing this?
I'm talking to my supplier about going this root, and am having problems finding out if I can even do it :( I was pointed to jcagle's page on the HP Blade stuff (http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle), but what I can't seem to find is how to connect the Blade-SAN ... From what little I've learnt so far, there is an HP Fiber Channel controller that is used to connect the Blade to the SAN, but I can't find anywhere that indicates that there is a FreeBSD driver for it ... Is anyone running such a configuration right now? Also, another thing that was mentioned to me was the ability to 'boot on SAN', instead of having drives in the Blade itself ... is this something that can be done with FreeBSD, and, if so, is there anywhere on the web I can read up on this? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone using blade servers???
Elliot Finley wrote: I'm looking for a blade server that will work with FreeBSD 5.x. Is anyone successfully using one? I would appreciate hearing about it. TIA Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3upsystems.com sales department told me yesterday they have FreeBSD support, and they can fit 12 blade servers in a 4u chassis, but they are a little hard on the wallet. Just not worth it for our company. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone using blade servers???
I'm looking for a blade server that will work with FreeBSD 5.x. Is anyone successfully using one? I would appreciate hearing about it. TIA Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blade servers
Are there any modern blade servers (P4 2.6G or faster) that work reliably with FreeBSD? TIA Elliot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
