Hello,
Has anyone got any experience with FreeBSD on the Dell C6220 series servers (basically 4 servers in 2U). I'm looking for something to use as a virtualisation platform (ZFS + bhyve), and these seem to be fairly cheap second hand at the moment.
I'm always a bit wary as I've invariably ended up with some sort of problem in the past. The most common one being the disk controllers not supported fully, or some low end raid controller that has terrible pass-through support and no basic HBA mode. Often you end up compromising with a bunch of RAID-0 devices that you have to use raid bios to manage.
The ones I'm looking at seem to come with a standard Intel C600 controller so I don't think I should have any problems with disks? other than I might bottleneck the interface if using SSDs.
The plan would be to run ZFS & bhyve, and I believe the processors of this generation - such as E5-2670 - have the relevant support (not really interested in pass-through).
Has anyone got any experience with FreeBSD on the Dell C6220 series servers (basically 4 servers in 2U). I'm looking for something to use as a virtualisation platform (ZFS + bhyve), and these seem to be fairly cheap second hand at the moment.
I'm always a bit wary as I've invariably ended up with some sort of problem in the past. The most common one being the disk controllers not supported fully, or some low end raid controller that has terrible pass-through support and no basic HBA mode. Often you end up compromising with a bunch of RAID-0 devices that you have to use raid bios to manage.
The ones I'm looking at seem to come with a standard Intel C600 controller so I don't think I should have any problems with disks? other than I might bottleneck the interface if using SSDs.
The plan would be to run ZFS & bhyve, and I believe the processors of this generation - such as E5-2670 - have the relevant support (not really interested in pass-through).