1u rackmount servers.

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Jun 26 10:59:06 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:54:41PM -0400, akanwar at digitarchy.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking for user recommendations for 1u rack mount servers that work
> with FreeBSD (4.8). These will be placed in a colo facility so my
> requirements are:
> 
> 1) Basic Lights out managemant via serial console
> 2) 2.66 or better processor
> 3) at least 2 gigE NICs 
> 4) IDE/SCSI 80GB drive
> 
> I am most concerned about good drivers for (3) and (4).

I've had good luck with the Intel OEM 1U Xeon boxes.  We've got about 70
of them.  We haven't used the managment functionality extensivly though.
You can get them from a number of vendors.  We bought ours from Iron
Systems.

-- Brooks

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