Re: shopping for a new server
Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. Tim Kellers On 08/25/11 13:57, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellerstimot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with this PERC? The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. The 2500 currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc. I Googled and found a bunch of somewhat older posts that showed some NIC issues and some PERC issues but it looked like most issues had been corrected by the beginning of 2011. Does anyone have any recent duccess/failure stories? I'd probably be looking to run 8.2 RELEASE AMD or 9.0 AMD when it becomes release. Thanks Tim I'm currently configuring FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 on an R610 with PERC H700 RAID controller. H700 uses the mfi(4) driver, I think that also goes for PERC 6/I. Network uses the bce(4) driver. No real problems to report. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with this PERC? The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. The 2500 currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc. I Googled and found a bunch of somewhat older posts that showed some NIC issues and some PERC issues but it looked like most issues had been corrected by the beginning of 2011. Does anyone have any recent duccess/failure stories? I'd probably be looking to run 8.2 RELEASE AMD or 9.0 AMD when it becomes release. Thanks Tim I'm currently configuring FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 on an R610 with PERC H700 RAID controller. H700 uses the mfi(4) driver, I think that also goes for PERC 6/I. Network uses the bce(4) driver. No real problems to report. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) and Linux. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) and Linux. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm Just one more reason NOT to buy anything from Dell -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with this PERC? The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. The 2500 currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc. I can't recommend the R610 highly enough. I have them as firewall/routers and DNS servers and they are fantastic. 8.2-RELEASE amd64. As Maxim pointed out, they use the mfi and bce drivers...I've added some Intel quad-port fibre NICs using the igb driver to the firewalls and haven't had any issues. My only suggestion is to pay attention to disk speed and RAID type if you're going to do heavy database work. I have a 200GB PostGreSQL database on RAID5 with 10K disks that crawls on data loads so I'm in the process of verifying to RAID 1+0 performance (we're neither CPU- nor memory-bound but the reported disk I/O via iostat is atrocious). dmesg for any of our R610s available on request if you want specifics. kmw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:38:26 -0400 Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com articulated: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) and Linux. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm Just one more reason NOT to buy anything from Dell I fail to see the reasoning behind your statement. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shopping for a new server
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console Redirection. You should also leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. Is anyone working on integrating support into FreeBSD? There is an abundance of info available and drivers for both Windows (obviously) and Linux. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/IntelPRO/R167266/en/ioat.htm http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023725.htm Jack Vogel was working on this a number of years ago, but there wasn't much interest at the time: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-August/011574.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-November/015911.html Here's a more recent thread on the topic: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-June/035573.html - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
