Incoming from Bruce Milne: > > I'm new to this list, so please be gentle! I imagined my first post here > would be on getting my bluetooth dongle working on my Toshiba A70 with FC2 so > I can use GPRS off my Nokia 3600, but alas not. I just found out that a key > hardware manufacture for us, RLX (www.rlx.com) has just announced they are > not making hardware anymore. > > We have about 50 servers, almost all Linux (RedHat, Fedora) which are all co > located in Denver (the company is 100% virtual). We used to buy from > Valinux, until they gave up (oh and stay away from California Digital!), and > since have come to really like the RLX management software they provide for > their blades and 1u rack mounts. > > The question is, who do you all favor for high performance blades? We've > come so far on standardizing on RedHat/Fedora and RLX management,that I'd > like to stick with those, but have no idea how IBM, Dell, HP or other blades > would stack up.
My employer just picked up an IBM eserver xSeries 335 off ebay. I dumped Redhat 8.0 on it, intending to turn it into an Accpac / Samba / LDAP server. Nice machine. ATI Mach 64 video onboard, two 100Mbit ethernet nics (Broadcom NetXtreme), MegaRAID IDE adapter (or SCSI, if you go that way). It's since been stolen by the bosses (handed to a new co-lo customer), but it handled an ancient version of Redhat with no problems. I had the two 37 Gb drives doing RAID mirroring (ignoring the hardware RAID adapter) and found no unsupported hardware, and no install glitches (other than Redhat's psychotic manner of implementing RAID partitioning, that is). It's got a proprietary kvm switch port on the back which you'll need a special cable to plug generic monitor, mouse, and keyboard onto it, but that's cheap and easy to find. If you've already an eserver compatible kvm setup, no prob. Redhat is close to the last choice of distro I'd pick, but vendors often demand it as their supported distro. Accpac aparently demands RH 8.0. Bizarre. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
