good servers?

[Ian Wilson]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Shawn Tayler <stayler at xmtservices.net> wrote:
>>  Dell Poweredge 2950....  16G RAM and 300G RAID 5 SAS under slackware....Dual
>>  Quad Cores.  Only 8 grand as I recall
>
> Thanks, that looks promising.

I have to +1 these as well.

If you're going to place these in an environment where you don't have
physical access, I'd also recommend getting the DRAC's for them as
well (Dell Remote Access Client).  Even though it pretends to be
windows-only, if you use vncviewer, you can get to the remote console,
and the remote drives are Java-Based, AFAIR.  I would stay away from
the Dell-branded IP-KVM switches though, I've had issues getting the
mouse to sync back up after reconnecting.

Also, Dell's linux support on the hardware rocks;  they maintain
yum/up2date repositories for the hardware managers, and when I had the
13xx's, I could get most off the shelf network management products to
recognize the dell specific bits with ease.

Ian

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