HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[Krassimir Slavchev]

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Johan Ström wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
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>> Johan Ström wrote:
>>> Hello!
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>>> Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box,
>>> which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups,
>>> crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc..
>>> What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0)
>>> and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card.
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>> I have some DL360 G5 (3.0GHz E53xx) with 8G, 4x146G SAS and P400i and
>> they work perfect with  7.0 (amd64) and sched ULE!
>>
>>> I've googled and looked through the list archives trying to find success
>>> stories/problem reports using FreeBSD on this box, but haven't found
>>> very much.. Only thing was
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>> Try to find "Performance!" thread on this list
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> Found it, but the main point seemed to be dont compile postgres stuff
> with incompatible threadsafeness? Or did I miss something?
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg92787.html

Yes, the main point is differ but the hardware is as yours and 7.0 works
without issues.

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>>> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html which says
>>> "Functional" which isnt very informative ;)
>>>
>>> So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)?
>>>
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>> Yes, P400i works fine with ciss(4) driver
> 
> Can i offline/online drives, rebuild arrays etc from the OS?

You don't need to do anything from the OS, just pull out the drive an
plug a new one or the same drive and arrays will be rebuilt
automatically (without rebooting or power on/off! The system doesn't
affected by this operation while running).
I have never tested camcontrol(8) utility but it should work.

Best Regards

> 
> Thank you!
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