Dell has an ugly habit of changing components even within the same model year of hardware. You can't predict how well supported something is based on "PowerEdge R410" until you have your specific one in front of you.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Kostas Zorbadelos <kzo...@otenet.gr> wrote: > Hello all, > > we are about to engage a procurement procedure of servers. There is a > high probability to purchase DELL hardware. I want OpenBSD to be > supported on the hardware. I have 2 broad options > > - Go with PowerEdge R410 > - Go with PowerEdge R620 (latest generation of servers) > > The first option has only a single PCIe slot so I cannot have hot > swappable disks AND Intel Ethernet interfaces (preferred from Broadcom > but unfortunately Broadcom is on-board and I cannot get rid of them). > > The second option has the disadvantages of recent hardware (= can be > unsupported). My main concerns are the PERC controller, where I saw that > PERC 310 is supported in mfi(4) and the Intel NICs (these servers come > with Intel Ethernet I350, still unsupported from what I saw, they are on > the hardware wanted list). > > The machines will be bought and put to use in at least 6 months from > now, one or two OpenBSD releases will have been made. What do you think? > Will the hardware be supported by then? > > As you can tell I do not control the procurement procedure, but I can > ask for specific DELL hardware. > > Regards, > > Kostas > > -- > Kostas Zorbadelos > twitter:@kzorbadelos http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kzorba > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > () www.asciiribbon.org - against HTML e-mail & proprietary attachments > /\
