[Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

[William Boehlke]

We have more than a hundred Dell servers in production at customers. We use
them because we can have them serviced easily, just about anywhere. 

They are principally 1850s and 2850s, or their predecessors, in T1 and
larger applications. 

The reported IRQ problems are easily avoided if, for example, you don't use
more than one card in a server or, better yet, don't use cards at all. 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of C F
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:22 PM
To: Walt Reed; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

Last time I checked Dell does support Linux.
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&
oc=pe2850-max&s=bsd
Scroll down to the OS chose and you'll see out of 26 choices only 4
are M$, the rest minus one are for a total of 21 linux choices.

On 12/19/05, Walt Reed <asterisk at linuxguy.com> wrote:
> Why oh why would you want to install *, which runs on Linux, on a
> machine made by a company that does NOT support Linux? Both IBM and HP
> do a pretty good job of supporting Linux. So do other Linux oriented
> companies like PenguinComputing.com
>
> Digium cards have historically been a little finicky in regards to which
> machines they work in, but Sangoma cards should work in virtually any
> modern machine that has the right type of slots (careful with some
> modern servers that ONLY have PCI Express slots.) Hopefully someone can
> comment about modern digium cards in regards to compatability. Have they
> gotten better?
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:44:38AM +0800, Hiu Yen Onn said:
> > Then, how about Acer? Does it work well with asterisk?
> >
> > Simone Cittadini wrote:
> >
> > >Matt Florell ha scritto:
> > >
> > >>The best Dell for a production environment Asterisk server is no Dell
> > >>at all. They make some great workstations, but I've had many problems
> > >>with their servers(as have many others on this list) when trying to
> > >>use them in production for Asterisk. Take a look at the Digium
> > >>compatibility list:
> > >>http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility
> > >>
> > >>
> > >*I've installed a PowerEdge 2850 - Xeon 3.0GHz/2MB, 800FSB with two
> > >TE410P in it, the cards didn't worked out of the box, but they worked
> > >after a couple of hours googling around, and it is in production since
> > >3 months, never gone down.
> > >*
> > >
> > >*(I'm not advocating dell, actually I don't even like dell as a
> > >society, only sharing my experience)
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