Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9

[Dmitriy Kulikov]

Hi!

Buying the server with B140i controller is not good idea for installing 
FreeBSD.  But it's a "question of money".  ;-(
The entire series controllers Bxxxi often has bugs and performance 
degradation in FreeBSD.
As a workaround to install FreeBSD with the controller Bxxxi you can use 
following recommendation:
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Turn off the software RAID in BIOS, and it should work fine.

To disable the Bxxxi RAID, do this:

On Boot press F9 and enter the Setup

System Options
    SATA Controller Options
        Embedded SATA Configuration : Enable SATA Legacy Support

    HP Dynamic Smart Array Bxxxi RAID Controller : Disabled

PCI Device Enable/Disable

    Intel(R) SATA Controller #1 : Enabled
    Intel(R) SATA Controller #2 : Enabled
    HP Dynamic Smart Array Accelerator Manager : Disabled

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Network controller 361T should be fine.
Integrated network controllers of HP are working well too.

I just installed FreeBSD 10.2 on DL360 Gen9 server (K8N32A) with integated 
network adapter, H240ar HBA disk controller and 2 HDD.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hp-gen9-arrays-support.52588/#post-306304
http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=43285&p=375871#p375871
It was difficult because HP is not interested in collaboration with FreeBSD. 
But in general I guess that buying a server K8N32A is very cost-effective 
for medium projects.
I used root on ZFS-sripe - it is a good modern solution.



Best Regards,
Dmitriy




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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivan Kurtev" <ikurtev at gmail.com>
To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:47 PM
Subject: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9


> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to install FREEBSD 10  on following server:
>
> HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9
>
> Storage Controller->HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller
>
> Network Card->HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter
>
> Thank You for your attention!
>
> Best Regards,
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