freeBSD certified server hardware ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, ke han wrote:

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> On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
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>>> David Robillard wrote:
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>>> What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a
>>>> test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with
>>>> a FreeBSD install disk and try to boot/install it on the hardware
>>>> you're interested in. That's what I do with HP, Sun and IBM (IMHO, try
>>>> to avoid Dell).
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Dell is, or at least they were, supplying PCs with FBSD installed.
>>> Personally, I have had FBSD installed on Dell, IBM and HP, with HP
>>> causing the most problems. IBM and Dell have worked for the most part
>>> quite nicely.
>> 
>> I'm up to 3 HP servers right now, and nary a problem with any of them ... 
>> probably the best servers I've picked up yet ... everything 'just worked' 
>> ...
>
> What HP model are you using?

HP Proliant DL360 G4p's ... RAID controller uses the ciss driver, ethernet 
uses the bge driver ... single core CPUs right now ... and 4xSAS drive in 
a RAID1+0 configuration ... I fought my supplier on moving to HP unti he 
wore me down, and, so far, wish I had switched years ago ...

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