On 10/24/06, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If those servers are in any way mission-critical for you (i.e. if sudden failure would cause you relevant inconvenience) you should seriously consider getting better hardware, even if you have to pay for it.
IMHO, overall these servers are "better hardware" already; not perfect, but when corporate politics dictate buying only Dell and Sun, these are a good choice (and already paid for). The one bad part in the 2650 chassis is the Adaptec controller, which is why I'm asking about "routing around" that one "faulty" chipset by installing a third-party RAID controller, from a manufacturer more friendly to OpenBSD (suggestions welcome). These are not ancient servers, they are relatively new, very reliable, and highly redundant -- except one key piece of their redundancy, the disk array, is unsupported by OpenBSD, (though it was supported when these were originally purchased). On 10/24/06, Per-Olov Sjvholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As you have built in PERC 3/Di controllers.. use it! Otherwise buy anything else but adaptec (like LSI Megaraid)..
I'm leaning towards the LSI solution. Assuming 'aac' is a problem for OpenBSD, we can spend $350+ per server for LSI cards to mitigate this risk, or just give the old hardware to a team which uses RHEL, where they don't worry about PERC3/Di controller bugs. KK
