[asterisk-users] Dell Servers

[Christophorus Laube]

We have a 2850 in a productive environment with a BNE1 performing well 
(OpenSuSE 10) and a 2950 with BNE1 and BN8S0 also performing OK (on Ubuntu 
Edgy). You only have to blacklist some hotplug kernel modules and yes, we do 
have very long pings (1 ping per week with a check rate of 10min per SNMP). 
But that does happen very rare and I never noticed any dropped calls or bad 
audio quality. The 2850 is running on SCSI, the 2950 on an SAS RAID.
In general I like the Dell machines, also with asterisk on them. The only 
thing is that Openmanage ist quite bad to install but that's nothing asterisk 
specific but linux related. 
Does that help?

best regards, Christophorus

> > Hi,
> >
> > I was planning on getting a Dell PowerEdge 2950 for our new Asterisk
> > configuration.
> > But while searching for documentation about it and/or reported issues, I
> > found this:
> >
> > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware
> > WARNING - many Dell motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset,
> > which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a
> > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon
> > ethernet card.
> >
> > Does anyone has real experience ?
>
> I bought a Dell 2850 as a pbx server and it just sucks IMHO
>
> The stupid thing has only 3 pci slots and even with only 3 pci slots Dell
> managed to have a shared irq on every slot, 1 for the scsi controller and
> one for each nic
>
> The result of this 'nice' piece of work is dreadfull irq hit/miss results
> in zttest, it barely meets the minimum requirement and i do get complaints
> of dropped calls on my pri
>
> I need to pass some options to the kernel at boot time to improve things,
> without extra options the results from zttest were unacceptable
>
> My spare pbx is a lowly Athlon XP 2600 with an Asus A7V8X-X mobo in it and
> it's scores with zttest are considerably better (but not full 100% hits)
>
> I know that everybody on the list will now start recommending me to buy
> Sangoma hardware but firstly I hate compiling extra modules and it doesn't
> make it right that the Dell hardware just sucks
>
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