[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Dan Lambert]

If you want to go the Dell route, that's fine, but there are software 
packages out that are specifically written to do a burn in and thorough 
load testing on dat equipment.

I would recommend that you use something like that PassMark BurnInTest, 
available at http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm

Dan

Jerry Yu wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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