[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Jerry Yu]

my req targets are all rack-mounted. I like Dell's rapidRail over the Compaq
rails I dealt with in the past. Of course, the Compaq servers I dealt with
before were a decade old and weighted a ton to lift.

On 9/26/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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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