[Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Cory Andrews wrote:
> Nate - Are a lot of folks utilizing Opteron processors?  We utilize 
> mainly Intel around here but I prefer AMD outside the office as well, 
> they've come along way since the K62 Series

We (Digium) have recently bought some Dell servers, but we also really 
(really) like Opterons and have recently built a 3TB storage server 
using a dual Opteron platform. Asterisk runs quite well on AMD 64-bit 
CPUs (also Intel, obviously) so for your business you would do well to 
consider offering and supporting both.

I would echo the previous reply's comment: dual power supplies are must 
for anyone using these systems for serious applications. We bought Dells 
because up until recently there were only three manufacturers producing 
1U servers with dual power supplies: Dell, IBM and SuperMicro. IBM was 
much more expensive, and SuperMicro uses SATA chips that didn't have 
open-source Linux drivers (they do now). If we built our own servers in 
the future, we'd go with SuperMicro, but we bought another batch of 
Dells primarily for consistency, support and lack of time to put boxes 
together :-)