HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[Johan Ström]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Krassimir Slavchev wrote:

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> Johan Ström wrote:
>> Hello!
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>> Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box,
>> which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random  
>> hangups,
>> crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc..
>> 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.
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> I have some DL360 G5 (3.0GHz E53xx) with 8G, 4x146G SAS and P400i and
> they work perfect with  7.0 (amd64) and sched ULE!
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>> I've googled and looked through the list archives trying to find  
>> success
>> stories/problem reports using FreeBSD on this box, but haven't found
>> very much.. Only thing was
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> Try to find "Performance!" thread on this list

Found it, but the main point seemed to be dont compile postgres stuff  
with incompatible threadsafeness? Or did I miss something?

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg92787.html

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>> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html which says
>> "Functional" which isnt very informative ;)
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>> So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 /  
>> P400i)?
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> Yes, P400i works fine with ciss(4) driver

Can i offline/online drives, rebuild arrays etc from the OS?

Thank you!