[Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

[Paul]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> 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 :-)

My experience putting debian linux on supermicros has always been better
than with dell servers.