RELENG_6 on HP ProLiant ML 350 G4p

[Henrik Lidström]

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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] För Albert Shih
> Skickat: den 31 januari 2006 22:21
> Till: lars
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> Ämne: Re: RELENG_6 on HP ProLiant ML 350 G4p
>
>  Le 31/01/2006 à 12:18:46+0100, lars a écrit
> > Hi all,
> > > I'm planning on getting a HP ProLiant ML350 G4p server (p for the 
> > iLO). Apparently this machine has a Smart Array 641 controller for 
> the > SCSI HDDs.
> > > > > I'd like to set up a RAID1 volume for the OS and a RAID 5 
> volume for > the data.
> > > I assume the RAID volumes can be set up via the RAID controller > 
> interface during the POST, I think it's called RBSU or something like 
> > that.
> > > I want to slice the RAID 1 volume for the OS with /, swap, /var, 
> /tmp, > /home and the RAID 5 volume with a /data slice.
> > > No gvinum or soft-RAID.
> > > I want to keep it as KISS as possible.
> > > > > Does FreeBSD recognize the two volumes as two disks and 
> behave > accordingly?
> > > Has anyone on this list successfully deployed a system in such a way?
> > > Or do you have any suggestion to improve on this idea of setup?
> > Sorry my english is not very good. I don't understand you problem.
>
> If you want have two raid volume under you Smart Array there are no 
> problem to FreeBSD to use it. Don't forget with a scsi card (raid or 
> not) it's the scsi controller to inform the OS what disk you have. 
> It's not the OS. Then if you OS (like
> FreeBSD) have right driver to use your SmartArray there no problem.
>
> But don't forget if you use FreeBSD under ML serie (like me) you can 
> not use the HP linux software to manage (and watching) your hardware.
>
> Regards.
>
>
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Hmm, I had no trouble running the software on ML350G3's.
http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/

It does'nt work ?

/Henrik