good servers?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:47 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >Anyone have any recommendations on good servers for Linux (brand +
> >model)?  My big requirements are something that supports two quad core
> >CPUs and gobs of RAM, but most of all good performance & reliability
> >in Linux.
> >
> >Right now, I'm only considering the big names (Dell, HP, IBM, etc),
> >but if you know of a smaller vendor who builds good stuff, let me
> >know.
> 
> The Supermicro servers are quite good.  Silicon Mechanics does
> quite a few of these, and is quite active in Linuxfest Northwest.

We use SuperMicro and are generally happy. I can only caution that they
are a BIOS-of-the-second company. No two 'identical' machines that we
order are the same. I think it is some sort of a company mission to make
each piece unique. Or we were until we encountered a string of servers
that will not boot a diskless SUSE/KIWI that uses NBD. The issue is
still open.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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