[OmniOS-discuss] Dell PowerEdge servers

John D Groenveld groenveld at acm.org
Tue Feb 6 13:43:37 UTC 2018


In message <CAGueQCe41Kk8v14TtcYJWZkFJfG64TawSr6kYEPaLvrCDN=8RA at mail.gmail.com>
, Lawrence Giam writes:
>I am looking at the following Dell PowerEdge server
>1. R530
>    - Intel Xeon E5-2600v4 processor
>    - Intel C610 chipset
>    - PERC H330
>    - On-board Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1Gb
>2. R540
>    - Intel Xeon Scalable processor
>    - PERC H330
>    - On-board Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb

Ask Dell to quote you the HBA330 which is the LSI SAS3008 HBA
instead of the PERC.
It will save you a few dollars and headaches with the RAID.

The Broadcom 5720 is supported by bge(7D)
<URL:https://illumos.org/hcl/>

John
groenveld at acm.org


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