[WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Justin Wilson
...@manageisp.com Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:15:13 -0600 To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Gino Villarini
] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:15 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Buy a new Dell (or

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Brad Belton
Parr Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Dennis Burgess
Training - Author of Learn RouterOS -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:15 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? I have a need

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Rick Harnish
General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything. We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start with. Loaded

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:15, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.comwrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers.All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? If the workload is

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Nick White
Computer Geeks usually has good stuff. I've bought both new (Intel) and refurb (HP) servers from them. Selection looks a bit low at the moment, but a month ago they had three times what's listed now. http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=821 Otherwise eBay is always a good source. On

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Jon Auer
with servers they replaced! Best, Brad From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Parr Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Gotstein
If you are looking for new, i've been buying my servers from IXsystems out of California for the past 6 years. They have a good range of products and also sell blade systems. Very stable hardware. They are a big contributor to open source and FreeBSD. If you want contact info, let me know.

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] *On Behalf Of *Brad Belton *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM *To:* 'WISPA General List' *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin Sullivan
What is everyone doing for VM storage? Kevin - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Unfortunately, these servers are going to be geographically

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Josh Luthman
kevin.sulli...@alyrica.net wrote: What is everyone doing for VM storage? Kevin - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists To: WISPA General List Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Unfortunately, these servers are going

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 24 August 2010 13:02, Kevin Sullivan kevin.sulli...@alyrica.net wrote: What is everyone doing for VM storage? Internal drives on small sites (prefer Raid 1 if possible, easier to recover in the event of a controller failure) and iSCSI for larger sites. The Dell MD3000i is a good bang for

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Brad Belton
stuffed with servers they replaced! Best, Brad From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Parr Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Brad Belton
[mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin Sullivan
] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? That's pretty cool. What are you using for shared storage? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Brad Belton b...@belwave.com wrote: Agreed. We’ve run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Nick White
, 2010 9:42 AM *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Unfortunately, these servers are going to be geographically dispersed, and doing things that cannot really be virtualized. Three will be doing NAT/policy routing, three will be running our bandwidth tracking

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Scott Lambert
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:34:41AM -0400, Justin Wilson wrote: There are several sellers on eBay selling Dell servers. We almost exclusively buy off eBay when it comes to servers. Lots of Dell/IBM/Etc. hardware with warranties. I just purchased 5 Poweredge 1850¹s for a client. 2x 3.4

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Brad Belton
. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:41 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Any idea what that cost? We're looking

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Josh Luthman
Dell gear. Best, Brad -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:41 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Any idea what that cost

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Jeremy Parr
On 24 August 2010 17:54, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Dell Outlet is 90% new dell stuff that was shipped twice, almost always still in the box. Someone ordered the wrong thing for example. Exactly. There are some great bargains to be had there.

Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?

2010-08-24 Thread Josh Luthman
My point was rather to show it isn't garage sale quality :) On Aug 24, 2010 7:28 PM, Jeremy Parr jeremyp...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2010 17:54, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: Dell Outlet is 90% ne... Exactly. There are some great bargains to be had there.