[asterisk-users] Anyone Using a Dell PowerEdge T105 in Production

[Steve Totaro]

On Jan 16, 2008 8:11 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

You can add the raid option for $199.  I think I might pickup about ten of
them at this price.  I can always resell them as general purpose servers or
even workstations if Asterisk/Zaptel/Linux does not like the boxen.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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