Lisa, Thanks I have been looking into VMware, though I hadn't thought of Citrix.
James, I will look into AZ State Surplus. Thomas, I have a 42U rack and have the space for it. However you are right it is not very green. I have thought of gutting it and keeping the 2U case however I don't know if it is worth the effort (or even possible) to retrofit it to work with a new face plate tom increase the number of drive bays. Probably would end up with very poor air flow anyway. Thanks all. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Thomas Cameron < thomas.came...@camerontech.com> wrote: > On 06/12/2012 04:20 PM, James Dugger wrote: > >> I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere >> in my network running as a linux server. It was being used two months >> ago as a VPN server running Windows 2003 Server. >> >> Here are the secs: >> >> 2 - 866 MHz Pentium Processors >> Bus 133MHz >> cache 256 KB >> 2048 MB ECC SDRAM >> built in adaptec hardware RAID controller >> SCSI dual channel backplane - w/1 daughter card installed >> >> 4 - 3.5 hot swap drivebays >> > > Man, that thing is going to suck LOTS of power and pump out LOTS of heat. > > If it were me, I'd sell it on craigslist or eBay and use the cash to buy a > modern multicore motherboard, memory, and processor in a desktop case. > Seriously, for a few hundred bucks you can get a system that sips power > comparatively, has many more - and much faster - CPUs, and has as much more > more memory. > > I've given up trying to repurpose machines that old. The cost in power > alone over the course of a year makes it smarter to get rid of it. > > TC > > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > plug-disc...@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us<PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > -- James
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