FreeBSD on IBM blade servers

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:38:47PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote..
> > 
> >
> >>Arun Raman wrote:
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> >>   
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>Had anyone successfully installed FreeBSD (any version) on a IBM blade 
> >>>server?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>I would love to run it on our LS 20 BladeCenter blades (Dual Core, Dual
> >>Opteron).
> >>But we don't have local disks, only SAN.
> >>And FreeBSD totally lacks multipathing and failover-support for the
> >>integrated Qlogic card (or just about any FC-card).
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >FreeBSD happens to support most Qlogic based FC cards with the isp(4)
> >driver.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> I know. It just happens that I see every LUN 4 times, due to the 
> multipath configuration we have!

Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the
storage?

> Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while 
> rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN).

THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org