Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-12 Thread Steve Shockley
On 8/8/2014 7:54 AM, Matthias Appel wrote: HP Dynamic Smart Array is a RAID solution combining a storage host bus adapter (HBA) and proprietary software components. You don't want to use this...hell, nobody should want to use this! The theory behind these fakeraid controllers is that you

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread Francois Pussault
Soft RAID is nearly transparent, low cpu or ram use, it uses some cpu but as you know 99% of time CPU just wait for bus... PF+VPN+SQUID+POSTFIX+SENDMAIL+APACHE+PHP classical webapp/mail server ? I guess ? you may have enough memory with 4Gohigher memory is always better of course...

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread David Dahlberg
Am Donnerstag, den 07.08.2014, 18:51 +0530 schrieb Indunil Jayasooriya: Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. They are probably defaulting to raid-mode, which doesn't work under OpenBSD. i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under OpenBSD? Will I have

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/07/14 22:56, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing functions etc? Than a good RAID card? of course. significantly more? probably not. I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or Sendmail and

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-08 Thread Matthias Appel
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] Im Auftrag von Nick Holland Gesendet: Freitag, 8. August 2014 13:35 An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ? On 08/07/14 22:56, Indunil Jayasooriya

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Søren Aurehøj
Den 07-08-2014 06:52, Indunil Jayasooriya skrev: Dear OpenBSD users, We have a new hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 server with 2 x 1TB Hard disks. When we are going to install Open BSD 5.5 64 bit, Openbsd can't detect These 2 Hard disks ( 2 x 1 TB) These are 2 hard disks of 7.2 K SATA 1 TB It asks

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. I switched to AHCI/SATA mode in BIOS. OpenBSD 5.5 64 bit Detected BOTH HARD DISKS. So I installed it. I now have 2 TB. On first disk, I partitioned /, swap , /usr and /var on the other 1 TB hard disk, I just

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread David Coppa
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com wrote: See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. I switched to AHCI/SATA mode in BIOS. OpenBSD 5.5 64 bit Detected BOTH HARD DISKS. So I installed it. I now have 2 TB. On first

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Thorsten Bonck
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 02:08:02PM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: We got this server with 2 x 1 TB hard disks. Because we want a mirrored Hard drive with 1 TB. But We got it WITHOUT getting it mirrored. We can tell the Hardware vendor to mirror this 2 hard disks. My question is after

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. They are probably defaulting to raid-mode, which doesn't work under OpenBSD. i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under OpenBSD? Will I have to go with Software RAID? -- Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards Søren

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Francois Pussault
: Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com Sent: Thu Aug 07 15:21:59 CEST 2014 To: Søren Aurehøj so...@fab-it.dk, misc misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ? Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. They are probably defaulting to raid-mode, which

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com [2014-08-07 15:23]: Try to change the harddrive settings in BIOS. They are probably defaulting to raid-mode, which doesn't work under OpenBSD. i.e - does NOT this server's Hardware Raid (Mirror) work under OpenBSD? Will I have to go with

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
If so just not use the fake-raid, disable it, and use soft-raid from BSD. If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing functions etc? I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or Sendmail and Apache etc.. Therfore I can't beleive HP

hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-06 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Dear OpenBSD users, We have a new hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 server with 2 x 1TB Hard disks. When we are going to install Open BSD 5.5 64 bit, Openbsd can't detect These 2 Hard disks ( 2 x 1 TB) These are 2 hard disks of 7.2 K SATA 1 TB It asks which is the Hard disk with this sign ? ' It does

Re: hp proliant dl 320e gen 8 for openbsd 5.5 64 bit ?

2014-08-06 Thread Jonathan Gray
That machine apparently ships with Dynamic Smart Array B120i which has a vendor specific software RAID mode. Looks like it only works on Linux with a closed source 'hpvsa' driver https://access.redhat.com/articles/118133 See if you can switch it to a standard AHCI/SATA mode in the bios. On Thu,