[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[Jerry Yu]

in that case, it is a good thing that the company could afford only Brown,
the basic parts warranty (3-Y NBD). Admittedly, at one point or another, I
could use some final authorities to rectify my answers/resolutions or my
lack of or to shorten the time to reach such answers/resolutions. In our
lab, a Dell PE6650 mysteriously crashed at certain loads. After many trials
and errors, I ended up with a stable combo of kernel version, firmware
version on RAID controller, dell's jbd module, plus HT disabled in BIOS and
kernel.

On 9/27/06, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>
> We use Dell for Windoze and Linux.  I really don't have much kick about
> the PowerEdge server hardware itself.  I don't have any experience with
> the Dell Outlet.
>
> One Caveat - While running RHEL (and Fedora Core) on PowerEdge seems
> fine Dell's support for Linux (below Gold level [$$$]) sucks wind.  On
> more than one occasion they've told me to boot from Windows to solve a
> problem on a Linux installed server.  It seems much to me that the Linux
> group you get really doesn't know that much about Linux.  Haven't gone
> to Gold level so don't know if it is truly better.  I guess if it were
> up to me to make the choice I might look for another PC vendor that
> didn't have such Windoze tunnel vision.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:24 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet
>
> 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 4.4installation?
>
> I have no personal experience with Dell servers, but the view I get from
>
> the various tech lists I'm on, their hardware sucks.  Based on that, I
> would never purchase Dell hardware.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>   - Benjamin Franklin
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