[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Jeff Hubbs]

Well, you're trading some money for getting to play in a crapshoot. 
And, as far as "getting what you want," I've gotten impacted by
situations where some onboard RAID controller was "present" but it was
disabled and unusable because the previous owner decided not to pay for
it.  Personally, aside from their perfectly adequate rack-mounting
hardware, I see no benefit whatsoever to going the Dell route - full of
stuff you can't replace and problematic to use (RAID controllers in
particular).

Jerry Yu wrote:
> I am tasked to purchase a few Dell PowerEdge servers, cheap. Dell
> outlet seems to be a natual choice. I wonder if any ALEr wants to
> share his/her experience with 'scratch/dent' versus 'certified
> refurbished'.   A good bargain comes & goes so fast on their site. Any
> known trick to pull to ensure I get what I want w/o refreshing the
> page every so often (manually or using curl)?
> I heard some horror stories about other outlets simply stamp their
> returned servers as 'certified' w/o going through really fixing up.
> Thus comes another question, how do people test/stress/prep the server
> for RHEL AS 4.4 installation?
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