Cory Andrews wrote:
Nate - Are a lot of folks utilizing Opteron processors? We utilize mainly Intel around here but I prefer AMD outside the office as well, they've come along way since the K62 Series
We (Digium) have recently bought some Dell servers, but we also really (really) like Opterons and have recently built a 3TB storage server using a dual Opteron platform. Asterisk runs quite well on AMD 64-bit CPUs (also Intel, obviously) so for your business you would do well to consider offering and supporting both.
I would echo the previous reply's comment: dual power supplies are must for anyone using these systems for serious applications. We bought Dells because up until recently there were only three manufacturers producing 1U servers with dual power supplies: Dell, IBM and SuperMicro. IBM was much more expensive, and SuperMicro uses SATA chips that didn't have open-source Linux drivers (they do now). If we built our own servers in the future, we'd go with SuperMicro, but we bought another batch of Dells primarily for consistency, support and lack of time to put boxes together :-)
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