Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > 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 :-)
My experience putting debian linux on supermicros has always been better than with dell servers. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
