[Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge 2850

[Richard OSS]

Thank you very much Darren.
   
  I did look at Dell's website for the info but was not able to find the PCI voltage info. Perhaps I looked at the wrong place or missed it. Googling also did not give me answers.
   
  I called Dell myself and the tech support person was very helpful. He confirmed that Dell PE 2850 indeed has 3.3V for PCI X.
   
  Digium's support also confrimed this. They suggested I exchange my TE205P card with the TE210P card which works with PCI-X 3.3V. 
   
  I am a newbie at Asterisk and am learning a lot thanks to the responses of the members of this list.
   
  richard

Darren Reilly <darren at signius.co.uk> wrote:
  

Dell website 

Useguide has the info and its:

Expansion Bus 

Bus type 
PCI-X, PCI Express 

Expansion slots via riser card cage:


PCI-X
one 3.3-V, 64-bit, 100-MHz or three 3.3-V, 64 bit, 133MHz 

PCI Express
one x4 lane width 
one x8 lane width

I would have thought the dell website would have been the first place to look.Took less than 2 mins to get the relevant info I cannot believe tech support couldn't give you that information.


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Darilion
Sent: 20 February 2006 23:23
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge 2850

Ryan Amos wrote:
> I use a PE2850 with CentOS 4.2 on it (as parent says, it is essentially
> RHEL 4 without the support contract.) Extremely stable; no problems with
> asterisk at all. Dell makes 2 PCI riser cards for this server, I believe
> one of them has 5v slots. I have a 3.3v card so I can't tell you on
> that.

Der PE2850 bietet eine Auswahl aus zwei E/A-Riser-Karten:

o E/A-PCI-Riser-Karte (3 PCI-X-Steckplätze: 3 x 64 Bit/133 Mhz) oder

o E/A-PCI-Riser-Karte (2 PCI Express-Steckplätze: 1 x8-Lane und 1 
x4-Lane, beide mit x8-Anschlüssen, und 1 PCI-X-Steckplatz: 1x 64 Bit/100 
MHz)

Both riser cards only have 64 Bit PCI slots. I think 64 bit is always 
3.3 Volt - isn't it?

regards
klaus

> -Ryan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dovid
> Bender
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:52 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell PowerEdge 2850
> 
> Don't know about the Dell. I personaly use Cent OS
> (www.centos.org) which is RHEL ES without paying for
> it. I have it on my server and it seems to be holding
> up just fine.
> 
> 
> --- Richard OSS wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Digium uses the Dell PE 2850 for their testing.
>> This site says that 3.3V PCI slot.
>> 
>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware
>> 
>> We are planning on purchasing a Dell PE 2850 and
>> putting a TE205P card on it. However, the needs a 5V
>> PCI slot. Does Dell PE 2850 has a 5V PCI slot? A
>> person in our group tried to call Dell's customer
>> support but they do not seem to know.
>> 
>> We will also be using RHEL ES 4 as the OS.
>> 
>> Anybody have experience (good/bad) for this type
>> of configuration? We are going to use it primarily
>> as a conferencing server serving 30-50 simultaneous
>> users.
>> 
>> Can anybody recommend an alternative server that
>> works well with TE205P and RHEL ES 4?
>> 
>> This is our first time using Asterisk so we would
>> like to have it pain free as much as possible.
>> 
>> Thank you very much.
>> 
>> richard
>> 
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