shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Tim Kellers
Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Tim Kellers
Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. Tim Kellers On 08/25/11 13:57, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellerstimot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work.  I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610  has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes?  I'll be

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set serial ports to be On without Console

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting.

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work.  I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610  has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes?  I'll be using

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:38:26 -0400 Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com articulated: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 Tim Kellers articulated: Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The