buy a HP DL380 G6

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:44:19AM +0200, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote:
> > Hi all, I would like to know if there is any who is working with a HP
> > DL380 G6
> > because I'm going to buy two of them but i have seen comments about bad
> > performance with the
> > CISS driver for the HP smart array p410i.
> > My idea is make a dedicated postgresql server (freebsd 8, 6 HD raid1 and
> > 22G ram).
> > any reply please....
> 
> The only thing you have to be careful about is the 10G NIC (broadcom 57711
> based).
> There is no driver yet for it, not even in current.
> Unless something has turned up recently.
> So better exchange the NIC with something supported.

The DL360/380 g7 come with 4x1GB nc382i ports, which is based on the Broadcom
BCM5709. The 10G you are talking about is on the Blades, like BL460 g6/7 
and BL490 g6.

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Regards, Ulf.

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