[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Jerry Yu]

One may benefit from standardization on one brand (whichever it is). Plus,
the management type may argue the savings can't justify the time (= $$)
spent on building from scratch,  managing warranty information on various
parts, and sorting through firmware jungle.

So, back to my initial questions, I'd appreciate any tip on
1) personal experience with server stuff from Dell outlet
2) test/stress/prep hardware (custom built or name brand) for RHAS based
application server or database servers?

As a quickie stress test, I usually run a dozen instances of backup scripts
(tar | gzip). Each pauses $((RANDOM%60)) upon finishing a round of full
backup. I figured that the tar can stress the disk IO (r/w) while gzip does
for the CPU.any apparent fault on this line of thinking?


On 9/26/06, Dan Lambert <danlambert at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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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