Re: Stable on Blade server


Hi there.

I just tried to install 6.2 on an IBM Bladecenter without any luck, i did a bit
of "googling" and asked around and it seems that IBM Bladecenter isn't supported
at all....some have "got it to work" with all kinds of messy workarounds....which
frankly arent worth the effort.

Hopefully someone will take the project of fixing at least the keyboard and scsi
issues so we can all use this wonderful hardware for FreeBSD...

I might even donate access to að blade if someone could make the effort of
debugging this.

--
Isak Ben,


---------- Original Message -----------
From: Marian Hettwer <mh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Martin <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freebsd-stable@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:12:49 +0100
Subject: Re: Stable on Blade server

Hi there,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to
sustain the growinng demand of our customers.

We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can
anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc

we have several blade centers in our datacenters. None of them were able
to boot up 6.1-RELEASE (which was the last one I tried). In general, the
IBM blade center is crap IMO. The management capabilites (some java / vnc
applet speak KVM over IP) is completely borked. Debian Linux runs, but
FreeBSD seems to have problems with the way those IBM blades are handling
the keyboard. Dunno any details, though :) Maybe you'd like to take a look
at HP's blades. I recall that the FreeBSD project got a HP blade donation
and is using a fully equipped HP Bladecenter. Maybe HP is your way to go
if you want to use FReeBSD on blades :)

HTH,
Marian

PS.: If I'll find the time to do so, I'll try a pxeboot of 6.2-RELEASE on
some different blades of us. Although this won't happen before end of next
week (to busy right now).

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