[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Dan Lambert]

I'll second the idea of buying servers built from commodity parts, and 
recommend that you have them built locally.

I've built dozens, and of a variety of form factors and hardware specs. 
It's much easier to get really good new servers for less than what Dell 
or any of the other major manufacturers want. The biggest thing they are 
selling is their name, and you don't always get the best hardware when 
you buy the name. Too much proprietary garbage, as far as I'm concerned...

Dan

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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