[asterisk-users] Had it with Dell Garbage - HP Question

[Michiel van Baak]

On 02:34, Sat 29 Mar 08, Al Baker wrote:
> Helps a bunch !!!
> One follow up question - out of all of your possible choices for the OS 
> how did you pick *Debian*.
> I 'm not saying is bad, I just know nothing about the particular disto. 
> and and very curious what
> it brought to the table that made you pick over say *RedHat* - where you 
> can *buy support *or *SUSE* - where you can *buy support*. My fear from 
> hell is that I' get 50 or 60 of these boxes in, start having kernel 
> panics, and have no damn body to help except the folks on mailing lists. 
> Mind you these are often really smart people, very generously giving of 
> their time, but not quite the say as a manned/paid support organization.

I choose Debian because I was already using it.
And because there are people out there that can help me.

I dont want the support from suse or redhat because they
wont help me when running anything that's not in their
repositories.

For example, if I install zaptel from source, your support
contract with them is void.

I also really like the Open and Free mindset of Debian.

> 
> Thx for sharing !!!
> 
> 
> 
> Michiel van Baak wrote:
> > On 08:02, Thu 27 Mar 08, Al Baker wrote:
> >   
> >> How do you get notifications ?
> >> Is this thru one of the add on packages HP sells for the box ?  Which One ?
> >> Could you be more specific about what you mean by a "recovery CD"
> >> and hod do you get console access below multi used to do "recovery ??
> >>
> >> What is "integrated ILO BIOS Access" sounds cool.
> >>
> >> What O/S you usin and what made you pick it ?
> >>
> >> What kind and how many RAIDS are you using. The HP site gave like 8 
> >> different RAID controllers and like 20 CPUs to chose from.  How did you 
> >> chose ?
> >>
> >> Thx for sharing !!!
> >>     
> >
> > I'm not the op, but sending a reply anyways.
> >
> > The notifications come from the HP tools you can download
> > for free from their website.
> >
> > The recovery cd is probably a selfmade installer for their
> > setup. At least that's what we have.
> >
> > the ILO stuff is to give you access to the box like you were
> > sitting right in front of it with a physical keyboard and
> > monitor, but over IP.
> > You can boot the machine, access the cd in your local
> > machine etc, even if the box is on the other side of the
> > moon.
> >
> > We use Debian. HP even supports it on their DL380 boxen.
> >
> > We use the P400 raid controller. Setup RAID5 with 3 disks.
> > CPU we use right now is the Intel E5405
> >
> > Hope this helps a bit.
> >
> >   
> 
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