[ale] HP BL460c G8 blades with 10Gb FlexibleLOM support?

[Lightner, Jeff]

If you're looking to buy "several" I'd suggest you go to whoever you'd be buying them from and ask for a loaner to do testing on.   If they know it means potential sales I'd expect them to accommodate that.   Although it has been some time since I've needed to do that I do know that I've had VARs/PC makers and even board makers do that when it meant potential sales.

Also if it supports RHEL you could get CentOS and run that as it is a binary compile from RHEL source but doesn't require the RedHat subscription.

Finally if "support" is important to you why wouldn't you go ahead and get one of the "supported' distros to avoid HP from saying it is an OS issue somewhere down the road if you run into an issue?





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy T. Bouse
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:24 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] HP BL460c G8 blades with 10Gb FlexibleLOM support?

Hey Guys,

Anyone out there have any hands-on experience with Debian being installed on a BL460c G8 blade using the FlexibleLOM 2-port 10GbE FlexFabric adapter to access a SAN? We're looking to purchase several but we've been bit several times with issues with going from DL380 and
DL385 Gen7 to Gen8 so hesitant to pull trigger on the order without validation that the support is available. HP party line is that RHEL & SuSE are supported but not Debian, but we all know it's the same kernels just different packaging and the occasional custom patches included.

TIA for any advice and comments as they'll be greatly appreciated.
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