Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:50:33 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: ericr <erobison@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days? Message-ID: <20090608195033.GA60266@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <7fc6c27a0906081056u161731c6m298efcf2aa471d38@mail.gmail.com> References: <7fc6c27a0906081056u161731c6m298efcf2aa471d38@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:56:35AM -0600, ericr wrote: > Hi, > > I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from > someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, > which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. Our group has a lot of Dells from Poweredge 650-s to 2950-s and some other groups in our department also run 46xx and some other things. They have been successful and reliable. We have also run a few HP servers with FreeBSD with no major problems, though one came with a DOA motherboard. But they came out and replaced it right away. ////jerry > > Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had > good luck with them? It seems hard to get them to tell you what controllers > and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported > hardware list. > > What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic: > > rack mountable > RAID-5 controller > 4-6 or more disks (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) > dual power supplies (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) > CDROM > 2 ethernet ports > some RAM > a video card > an Intel or AMD CPU - single, two CPU, or multicore doesn't really matter. > > and the all-important onsite service. > > These things need to be pretty reliable, both of the data centers they're > going into are a couple of hours from my house, so I don't want a dead > power supply to take out the server. We've used SuperMicro's in the past, > and they've been wildly variable. Some of them have run ok for years, some > died within weeks, and kept dying no matter what parts we put in. (yes, I > checked the power, it was clean. My guess is just a bad run of > motherboards). I've got 3 servers that have never been able to stay up for > more than a couple of days, we don't even use them. > > Regardless, any one have suggestions on what current models of servers are > out there that run? > > Thanks! > > - ericr > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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