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

[Phil Pritchard]

i could not recommend dell more.
 and also to say, there is loads of support for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels for 
most if not all of there hardware.
"times are a changing!"

the best bang for buck(only a few months ago) is the poweredge 
sc430..(extremely quiet, without a load)
works perfectly, everything!

with regard to irq problems, you will get that with any 
machine/hardware. not just dell.
when i build or commission a new server, i always run hardware tests. 
like ram, hard drive, processor and motherboard.
checking motherboard for interrupt conflicts etc.(with all cards installed)
the best all round tool for this is the UBCD. universal boot cd ( goggle )
there are a few versions, ie. a small(about 35meg) and a large one( abit 
over 100meg)...for memory.

i have a lot of dell machines, including some very old ones.. that still 
go hard...
the engineering in these machines is the reason why i use them.
i have pulled a lot of machines/servers apart, and there one of the best..


there my bit! hope it helps...

Phil




William Boehlke wrote:

>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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