HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[Johan Ström]

First of all, nice with all these positive answers! Thank you all  
(without responding to each and every post:))!


On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pete French wrote:

>> What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0)
>> and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card.
> ...
>> So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 /  
>> P400i)?
>
> We have around 20 machines like that and they work beautifully. We
> run 7.0/amd64 on the machines now, but we have run 6.2/i386 in the  
> past
> and that work fine - though you will only be able to use the first
> 3.5 gig of RAM.

I don't have any plans on running i368, running amd64 on the  
supermicro box now without any problems (that I can relate to that at  
least).

How long have you run 7.0 (before release)?  From all the other  
responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems  
at all.

>
>
>> Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with
>
> We run 7.0 on these machines and it works fine - I always prefer 7.0
> to 6.3 on SMP machines as it performs better. Also 7.0 works well with
> the iLO on these machines - I seem to recall when I installed 6.X that
> it didn't work too well and I had to use boot floppy images. I'd say
> go for 7.0 and amd64 if you can.

This is where I'm a bit curious. What OS interaction does iLO do? That  
needs to be "compatible" i mean.
On my current box I got a IPMI card that gives me (when its working..)  
SOL capabilities.. To what degree can I remote control with iLO? If  
I've understood correct, I get the exact console as on screen with kb  
access, over web/ssh/telnet. Is this working good? This is one of my  
important points for changing since its so crappy on my current box,  
and when the box is a couple of miles away its quite nice to have it  
working flawlessly..
iLO over internet? Possible, impossible? Encryption? (yes i know, not  
exactly freebsd related questions but.. )


Another thing, how is it with physical monitoring? Temperatures/ 
fanspeeds/voltage?

Thank you (all)! :)

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Johan