[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Jerry Yu]

passMark, pretty intersting. Thanks, Dan.

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