2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12

From: Etienne Ledoux (etienne_at_unix.za.org)
Date: 06/20/03

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    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:20:25 +0200

    I will have the privilage of installing something on the above mentioned
    hardware. I've never installed/configured hardware like this. Basically it is
    2 servers connected to a exteral raid device with scsi cables. These servers
    can access the device at the same time. Which makes it nice for redundency
    and load balancing.

    We are going to use it as a big NFS mailstore which other mail servers will
    access to deliver mail (smtp/pop3, etc.).

    The mailservers will all be running FreeBSD (postfix, amavisd-new,
    courier-imap/pop3, sqwebmail,freevrrpd, etc. etc). *feerr!*
    I will put these servers behind a FreeBSD firewall using ipnat for round-robin
    load balancing.

    So it should eventually be a nice big redundent, load balanced mailserver
    behind a firewall and everybox will be running FreeBSD.

    My question is with regards to the servers I want to use as the NFS
    mailstore(2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12).
    Can I run FreeBSD on it too ? I guess the answer is yes? but Is FreeBSD the
    best option for this type of hardware and will it be difficult to configure.
    Or is Linux a better alternative ? I honestly have no idea what the best
    option is and don't want to reliase a month or two later when everything is
    live that I made a mistake and shouldve done something else or installed
    something else.

    tx
    e.

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