good servers?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> 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.

That sounds like my experiences with SM.  They have severe quality
problems, and very few clues.


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