IBM Pure Flex Systems

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mozaix

Hi, folks. I'm waiting for an IBM Flex System to arrive. Our company purchased the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis. Does somebody have some experience with using FreeBSD on the platform? Especially experience to use a SAN with IBM System Storage DS3524. Does FreeBSD support drivers to work with Qlogic IBM 8 Gb SFP+ SW Optic Transceivers? On the IBM web-site drivers are only for Windows, SLES and RHEL.

Can somebody share information?
 
Hi,

I am using FreeBSD 9.1 on an IBM Blade center H with HS23, (normal Xeon processors and Qlogic 8G FC adapter). Using Internal disk for ZFS mirroring (did not try booting from SAN yet). All hardware is 100% compatible and working with EMC storage using ZFS and FreeBSD multipath (CAM control/gmultipath, Active/Passive-Active/Active). Plex systems are also similar with the same hardware so I would believe it should work the same. Hope that's a good direction for you to try and let us know.
 
Well tonight we've just recently tried to install 9.1 with no success - after having pressed manual or guided manipulation with disks it says - "Installation was aborted". And the core IDEA - to install to SAN volume (IBM DS3524) and after that - boot from the volume. Windows Server 2008 R2 had no problems to be installed through FC and boot from SAN.

Hardware: IBM Flex Systems X240 Compute Node with Intel Xeon 4C E5-2643 and Qlogic IBM FC3172 HBA. The switch is IBM FC3171.

Will somebody help?
 
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