Dell PowerEdge with large storage array?

[Greg Barniskis]

I would like to hear from anyone using Dell PE servers (e.g. PE 2650 
or larger/newer) with any kind of Dell or non-Dell external storage 
(SAN, NAS or other) with FreeBSD 5.X. What works well? What doesn't? 
Dell Fibre Channel AX100? PowerVault 7XX? Other?

We've used FreeBSD 4.x on a wide variety of hardware, and more 
recently have been planning a 5.4 migration on our older Dell 
servers (PE2650 and lower), but only using the built-in PERC RAID 
stuff with less than 100 GB per box. We can see a need for at least 
a terabyte of storage (possibly more) coming around the bend, and of 
course I would prefer that FreeBSD be the custodian of the storage 
system. Speed is important, but reliability much more so.

Any pointers would be much appreciated, thanks.

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Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
South Central Library System (SCLS)
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