Are they still supporting the hardware (next-day service) if we are using a BSD though? I think I can live with offline upgrade of the firmwares.. But if it breaks the support of the hardware that become an issueHPE doesn't provide support for FreeBSD.
is this brcause of the drivers or it was doing the same under a supported OS?I have DL20 Gen10 server. It has installed 12.2 and works fine except one thing, very noisy fans. That was the reason why I installed this server in garage instead of home.
Yes hardware support is not related to the OS in any way.Are they still supporting the hardware (next-day service) if we are using a BSD though?
I can't tell for sure, but I read on their forum, that it's because absence of a freebsd agent. For any fan complaints they are suggesting to install some kind of agent, which exists for linux only.is this brcause of the drivers or it was doing the same under a supported OS?
The fan speed remains between 6% and 8% for all three fans from the concern of high fan speed (above 30%) once Agentless Management Service is installed
thanks for the link. I'm not sure then if i will use freebsd then on this machine One of the main reason I wanted to do it was ZFS.If you are using dynamic smart array raid then the temp of the disk are reported correctly and the fan speed should be low. If you are using AHCI the disk temperatures are reported via Agentless management service for ILO 5 which software is not available for FreeBSD and Fan is running on high speed. There's similar issue when you are using non complain NMVE drive with missing temperature reporting.
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hrm I have already one machine (redundant supply) and SAS drives but with this controller; I will look at changong it for the second one . So you mean using hardware raid with freebsd instead of using ZFS?If you haven't already bought this one i would recommend to select a server with redundant power supply with hardware raid controller like P400 series and use SAS drives.
I thought the same and bought this controller. And yes, it reports the temperature. At least I see it through iLO. Without Smart Array fan speed was 70%, now it's just 30%.I thought that the HPE Smart Array E208i-p SR Gen10 will let freebsd correctly report the temperature even in HBA.
Yes, instead of ZFS use UFS. Note that for RAID 5 you need flash-backed write cache (FBWC) it's actually 72-bit DDR3 memory for r/w cache. You still have UFS snapshots and live system remote backups using dump no journal (ufs, local, soft-updates)So you mean using hardware raid with freebsd instead of using ZFS?
ciss0: <HP Smart Array P440> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0x92e00000-0x92efffff,0x92f00000-0x92f003ff at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci2
ciss0: PERFORMANT Transport
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<HP RAID 5 OK> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
<HP RAID 1(1+0) OK> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass1)
<AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ses0,pass2)
<AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 2.00 0001> at scbus13 target 0 lun 0 (ses1,pass3)