+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2010-01-26 17:09:09, Luca Corti wrote: | | Anyone has any experience with this Sun box? I'm looking for decent hardware to run OpenBGPd over a 1 Gbps Internet transit. | | It's an Intel Xeon 5520 quad-core with an Intel 5520 chipset and ICH10R, I guess no problem here. | It comes with 4 gigabit ports (Intel 82575EB) which should be fine em(4). | I'm wondering if the Sun Storagetek SAS RAID card is supported though, the technical specs talk about it as being "LSI-based".
I have several of these systems. They do not run OpenBSD, so I can only speak to the hardware: The hardware is excellent. It's easy to work on; it's stable; it has decent introspection via the BMC. It has a couple minor, but very nice, fixes over the X4150s (mostly to do with button placement and some internal cabling). I have had zero problems with these systems. They're solid, and they fly. You can pick up RAM cheap from crucial, and get disk sleds from memoryx (541-2123) so you don't have to pay disk markup. I do not use the SAS RAID card, and couldn't speak its being supported by OpenBSD regardless. (I have a J4200 plugged into the non-RAID SAS card, because ZFS > hardware RAID.) You may find that you'll need to disable some of the em(4) ports so you can get access to the Service Processor. I run OpenBSD on my X2100 M2s and have to disable bge* (via config(8)) so I can get at the SP. Just something to keep in mind when provisioning. Cheers. -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.
