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

Wed Dec 28 14:33:41 MST 2005

The SC430 will experience unusable call quality with a TDM400P due to IRQ
Sharing problems. If you have some magic to get around this, please share
because everyone I know that has tried using an SC430 has given up and
switched to other platforms.
-Kerry

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Phil Pritchard
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 1:30 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

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. 

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[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
<http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en
&> &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  <mailto:asterisk at linuxguy.com>
<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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