Re: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9

2015-12-17 Thread Dmitriy Kulikov 
Hi!

Using of gmirror is a legacy decision. I suggest you to study the documentation 
on ZFS. It provides many advantages, especially with larger drives (over 300GB).
In particular, ZFS provides quick system recovery when a sudden power-off (when 
fsck can run for a very long time).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
https://blogs.oracle.com/roch/entry/when_to_and_not_to
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/index.html
https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool=8
http://xgu.ru/wiki/ZFS


Best Regards,
Dmitriy


  - Original Message - 
  From: Ivan Kurtev 
  To: Dmitriy Kulikov 
  Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:11 AM
  Subject: Re: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9


  Hi Dmitry,


  Thank you very match for your urgent replay!


  it was very useful for me. I will use gmirror, instead of B140i to build my 
mirror


  Best Regards,


  Ivan Kurtev



  On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Dmitriy Kulikov <dmitri_kouli...@mail.ru> 
wrote:

Hi!

Buying the server with B140i controller is not good idea for installing 
FreeBSD.  But it's a "question of money".  ;-(
The entire series controllers Bxxxi often has bugs and performance 
degradation in FreeBSD.
As a workaround to install FreeBSD with the controller Bxxxi you can use 
following recommendation:
-
Turn off the software RAID in BIOS, and it should work fine.

To disable the Bxxxi RAID, do this:

On Boot press F9 and enter the Setup

System Options
   SATA Controller Options
   Embedded SATA Configuration : Enable SATA Legacy Support

   HP Dynamic Smart Array Bxxxi RAID Controller : Disabled

PCI Device Enable/Disable

   Intel(R) SATA Controller #1 : Enabled
   Intel(R) SATA Controller #2 : Enabled
   HP Dynamic Smart Array Accelerator Manager : Disabled

-
Network controller 361T should be fine.
Integrated network controllers of HP are working well too.

I just installed FreeBSD 10.2 on DL360 Gen9 server (K8N32A) with integated 
network adapter, H240ar HBA disk controller and 2 HDD.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hp-gen9-arrays-support.52588/#post-306304
http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=5=43285=375871#p375871
It was difficult because HP is not interested in collaboration with 
FreeBSD. But in general I guess that buying a server K8N32A is very 
cost-effective for medium projects.
I used root on ZFS-sripe - it is a good modern solution.



Best Regards,
Dmitriy




-
- Original Message - From: "Ivan Kurtev" <ikur...@gmail.com>
To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:47 PM
Subject: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9



  Hi All,

  Is it possible to install FREEBSD 10  on following server:

  HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9

  Storage Controller->HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller

  Network Card->HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter

  Thank You for your attention!

  Best Regards,

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Re: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9

2015-12-16 Thread Dmitriy Kulikov 

Hi!

Buying the server with B140i controller is not good idea for installing 
FreeBSD.  But it's a "question of money".  ;-(
The entire series controllers Bxxxi often has bugs and performance 
degradation in FreeBSD.
As a workaround to install FreeBSD with the controller Bxxxi you can use 
following recommendation:

-
Turn off the software RAID in BIOS, and it should work fine.

To disable the Bxxxi RAID, do this:

On Boot press F9 and enter the Setup

System Options
   SATA Controller Options
   Embedded SATA Configuration : Enable SATA Legacy Support

   HP Dynamic Smart Array Bxxxi RAID Controller : Disabled

PCI Device Enable/Disable

   Intel(R) SATA Controller #1 : Enabled
   Intel(R) SATA Controller #2 : Enabled
   HP Dynamic Smart Array Accelerator Manager : Disabled

-
Network controller 361T should be fine.
Integrated network controllers of HP are working well too.

I just installed FreeBSD 10.2 on DL360 Gen9 server (K8N32A) with integated 
network adapter, H240ar HBA disk controller and 2 HDD.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hp-gen9-arrays-support.52588/#post-306304
http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=5=43285=375871#p375871
It was difficult because HP is not interested in collaboration with FreeBSD. 
But in general I guess that buying a server K8N32A is very cost-effective 
for medium projects.

I used root on ZFS-sripe - it is a good modern solution.



Best Regards,
Dmitriy




-
- Original Message - 
From: "Ivan Kurtev" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:47 PM
Subject: Installing FREEBSD on HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9



Hi All,

Is it possible to install FREEBSD 10  on following server:

HP ProLiant DL60 Gen9

Storage Controller->HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller

Network Card->HP Ethernet 1Gb 2-port 361T Adapter

Thank You for your attention!

Best Regards,
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Disk Controllers - ciss driver mismatch of supported devices

2015-07-28 Thread Dmitriy Kulikov 
Hello!

Sorry, I found a mismatch between the lists of supported controllers of driver 
ciss. On the website of the developers stated that ciss supports new disk 
controlers of servers HP Gen 9 (H240ar, P440ar, etc.). But in the FreeBSD 10.1 
documentation their support is not mentioned. Does FreeBSD 10 support new disk 
controlers (H240ar, P440ar) of servers HP Gen 9?
http://cciss.sourceforge.net/
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html

Of course, I also found incomplete compliance supported network controllers HP.
But that can be partly understood through matching chips.


Best regards,
Dmitriy
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