Hi- I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and I'm considering using an "assembled" package for the server, instead of building them from components as I usually do. Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 server, or any other 1U rackmount server for use with asterisk? Thanks in advance Scott Stingel Scott M. Stingel President, Emerging Voice Technology, Inc. Palo Alto California & London England www.evtmedia.com
Scott Stingel wrote:> Hi- > > I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and I'm considering > using an "assembled" package for the server, instead of building them from > components as I usually do. > > Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 server, or any other > 1U rackmount server for use with asterisk?Hey Scott, that is the exact box I am running * on in my office. But I have not been brave enough to plug in any PCI cards yet. I am still doing it the expensive way, with external gateways. I can't wait for someone like you to come out and say these PCI cards are way solid and ready for prime time commercial deployment. -- Bob Knight [-w] the work option bk@minusw.com 925-449-9163
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 19:25, Scott Stingel wrote:> Hi- > > I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and I'm considering > using an "assembled" package for the server, instead of building them from > components as I usually do.Nothing against your ability, but buying a 1u server is much better than building it as there is a lot of cooling problems to overcome.> Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 server, or any other > 1U rackmount server for use with asterisk?I have a SuperMicro 1u server as our primary asterisk box. It has been running great for over a year with a T400P card in it. We have a dell 1u server that we have put a TE410P card in and it doesn't seem to have problems. The big thing to look into is what PCI busses the machine supports. We where very surprised with our Dell when it came with a PCIX slot and a 66mhz 64bit slot. The included ethernet card wasn't directly supported by our install disks and we couldn't install a cheap card to get the install bootstrapped due to the incompatible slots. So after building a special boot disk, all was better except the T100P card I owned wouldn't work in it again due to slot incompatibility. That prompted our TE410P card purchase. Only trouble we have currently is the TE410P card doesn't like to keep an idle PRI up to the T400P card for very long before it stops using the D channel properly. It is very unlikely that the machine causes that trouble. Steven -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of > Scott Stingel > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:25 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge 750 rackmount > > Hi- > > I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and > I'm considering using an "assembled" package for the server, > instead of building them from components as I usually do. > > Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 > server, or any other 1U rackmount server for use with asterisk?I haven't used one with *, but I recently installed Mandrake Linux on a PowerEdge 750. Everything seemed to come up fine, but the installer didn't recognize the NIC or CDROM by default. I got around this by doing a network install using the "alt0" image off the Mandrake 10 boot CD.
Scott Stingel wrote:> Hi- > > I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and I'm considering > using an "assembled" package for the server, instead of building them from > components as I usually do. > > Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 server, or any other > 1U rackmount server for use with asterisk? > > Thanks in advance > Scott Stingel > > > Scott M. Stingel > President, > Emerging Voice Technology, Inc. > Palo Alto California & London England > www.evtmedia.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >I would verify that the BIOS allows the reassignment of IRQs. My Dell 400SC BIOS won't allow IRQ manipulation. -- Michael Welter Introspect Telephony Corp. Denver, Colorado +1 303 674 2575 mike@introspect.com www.introspect.com
What I have found are the best servers, are IBM xSeries machines. You can obtain a Refurb xSeries 305 P4 2.4ghz for around $750-800. I have never had the first problem out of these boxes. SuperMicro is also good, but the IBMs tend to be a little smaller (a lot less deep) than SuperMicro 1U machines. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: Steve Szmidt [mailto:steve@szmidt.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:52 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge 750 rackmount -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 01:02 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:> The big thing to look into is what PCI busses the machine supports. We > where very surprised with our Dell when it came with a PCIX slot and a > 66mhz 64bit slot. The included ethernet card wasn't directly supported > by our install disks and we couldn't install a cheap card to get the > install bootstrapped due to the incompatible slots. So after buildinga> special boot disk, all was better except the T100P card I ownedwouldn't> work in it again due to slot incompatibility. That prompted our TE410P > card purchase.After using various Dell's for a few years I'm very weary if I need something not bland. They are very very good at cutting corners at all sorts of places. Their intended public is mostly "run of the mill" machines. They are the pro's in cutting pennies and turn it into BIG savings. Too many times have I discovered something odd or less than I would have expected. SuperMicro on the other hand have striken a good balance of price and quality. They are really are going after the market with some very solid hardware and not being the cheapest either. Which is really less important in a business environment anyway. Support and quality being more important. It's really true that you get what you pay for. If you can afford quality it's cheaper in the long run. - -- Steve "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBK45fljK16xgETzkRAtG+AJ9dStuHpzMSxiQFafCD1SSToRF+TACgknUl yL4OmWEaSPs+abhFM3i1S2Y=lIxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Hi Scott.
I have used servers from advansor, one with a 2 Xeon cpus, 2 nics,
hw raid and a te405p card, and another with 1 P4 cpu and 1 t100p, both
working veri well.
The only bad thing is that advansor site has an Altigen add ;-p
Scott Stingel wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I have an upcoming order for a bunch of asterisk boxes, and I'm
considering
>using an "assembled" package for the server, instead of building
them from
>components as I usually do.
>
>Does anyone have experience with the Dell PowerEdge 750 server, or any other
>1U rackmount server for use with asterisk?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Scott Stingel
>
>
>Scott M. Stingel
>President,
>Emerging Voice Technology, Inc.
>Palo Alto California & London England
>www.evtmedia.com
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