DELL Blade and Storage Solutions

[tamnse]

Hi,

I am interested in installing FreeBSD in blade servers and storage solutions.
I am thinking on using blade system for load balancing and storage solution for information security.

Is it possible to use FreeBSD in blade servers.
My second question would be, is it possible to connect storage solution to freebsd setups as a hdd.

I want to use blade server a computing power and storage solution as hdd.

Is it possible to install DA and use it under this configuration.

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

DirectAdmin shouldn't have any problem working in blade servers but will of course need a separate license for every blade, as every blade is a separate server.

I have a feeling that replies to the rest of your questions are beyond the scope of this forum and are probably better off asked elsewhere.

Jeff

 

[tamnse]

DirectAdmin shouldn't have any problem working in blade servers but will of course need a separate license for every blade, as every blade is a separate server.

I have a feeling that replies to the rest of your questions are beyond the scope of this forum and are probably better off asked elsewhere.

Jeff

They are seperate but they will be exactly same and they will be sharing same drive as user/home DIR.

Does this change something ?

My intention is to use them as load balancing.

 

[l0rdphi1]

They are seperate but they will be exactly same and they will be sharing same drive as user/home DIR.

Does this change something ?

My intention is to use them as load balancing.

Hi,

Each node (even if all are using the same /home space) will need a separate license.

Also, note that while DA does store user's web files in /home, the control panel configuration data (such as a user's list of domains, FTP accounts, etc.) are stored elsewhere around the file system. Even if you mirrored/shared /home across each additional node, that won't be enough to get DA on each node appearing with the same data; all of these other files will need mirrored/shared too.

If you really only need to mirror http for a few web sites that get heavy traffic, you might consider installing DA on only one node, and then manually setting up each additional node without DA and only coping the Apache configuration over.

Good luck.

Phil

 

[tamnse]

Thank you phil for your reply.

What if i share all required program variable directories and such too ?

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

What's your question? Is it still will you need separate licenses? Yes. Because each IP# is a separate host.

Jeff

 

[pucky]

Is it possible to use FreeBSD in blade servers.

Yes, but make double and triple sure that your hardware is completely supported otherwise disaster will strike. Not doing this will result in server crashes after you've spent time setting up and migrating sites only to find that you now have a horribly unstable box.