asterisk users - Jan 2008 - Anyone Using a Dell PowerEdge T105 in Production

Unbeatable price for a low end Asterisk server (or any server for that
matter)

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bednv4k&s=bsd

I wonder if anyone has any experience with this box and Digium or Sangoma
hardware?  Any compatibility issues?  If not, I might stock up on them.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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On Jan 16, 2008 6:39 PM, Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com>
wrote:
> Unbeatable price for a low end Asterisk server (or any server for that
> matter)
>
>
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bednv4k&s=bsd
>
> I wonder if anyone has any experience with this box and Digium or Sangoma
> hardware?  Any compatibility issues?  If not, I might stock up on them.
Wow - that *is* a great price.  I don't have any of this particular
box in production, but I do have 2 PowerEdge SC440s (one step up from
the T105) running asterisk along with Sangoma PRI cards. They're
working great.  I really only have two issues with these low-end
servers:

1. You can't order 'em with RAID support.  I'm getting around this
by
using software RAID1 in linux, but I'd much prefer having a hardware
RAID controller.
2. The Dell DRAC remote management cards aren't compatible with these
low-end server motherboards.  I've become *completely* addicted to the
DRAC cards on the high-end PowerEdges, to the point that I now refuse
to order a server without a DRAC card.

That said, I'm sure this server would run a small/medium asterisk
install just fine.

-Erik

That link isn't working for me. Can you post some details and the price so I
can see if I can recreate it?

Thanks, 
Scott 

P.S. I got one of the new Vostro boxes a couple of months ago for a very small
Asterisk install and CentOS wouldn't recognize the onboard network card.
Given enough time we probably could have gotten it to work, but we ended up
putting in a $10 network card and had no other trouble. The Vostro came in at
$300 or so.

P.S.S. I know a while back the Dell SC models had problems with Digium cards
over interrupt handling. Anyone using SCs with Digium cards these days?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> 
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Sent: 16 January 2008 19:39:34 o'clock (GMT-0500) America/New_York 
Subject: [asterisk-users] Anyone Using a Dell PowerEdge T105 in Production 

Unbeatable price for a low end Asterisk server (or any server for that matter) 

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bednv4k&s=bsd

I wonder if anyone has any experience with this box and Digium or Sangoma
hardware? Any compatibility issues? If not, I might stock up on them.

Thanks, 
Steve Totaro 

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