On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:20:55PM -0500, Kevin wrote: > Has anybody dealt with "Rackable Systems, Inc."? builders of custom > high-density rackmount servers. They offer both AMD and Intel. Being > focused on half-depth, low-power, and low-heat solutions, > their products seem to be a little on the expensive side. > > I've been talking to them on the phone and via email about servers > (for work) and they mentioned some of customers run OpenBSD.. > I have a meeting with a sales guy on Wednesday, and want to give him > some good questions to bring back to the technology guys. > > They seem open to putting together an OpenBSD-supported SKU and > making it orderable from the web site (I'll strongly recommend including > an official CD set with each order). Anything else I should ask about? >
If you want to compare prices, this UK outfit are reselling half depth low power 1U boxes: http://www.broadberry.co.uk/quote.php?main_category=enterprise&spec_id=48 US manufacturer is here: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5014/SYS-5014C-MF.cfm All have LSI disk controllers and BOIS console redirect builtin. eg: search for LSI in the manual for the above box here: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/superserver/1U/MNL-0779.pdf dmesg here of a similar model: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-06/0918.html -- Craig Skinner | http://www.kepax.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
