Re: [asterisk-biz] Supermicro servers

2008-04-06 Thread Andy Davidson
On 27 Mar 2008, at 11:08, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote: > I am looking at purchasing 2 supermicro servers with the following > specs: Hey Julian For Supermicro in the UK, you should give Andy Bennett from VA Technologies a call. http://www.va-technologies.co.uk/ 01582 483381 They're based i

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-16 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Tony Nichols wrote: [Deleted] > I have had GREAT luck with the LSI sata 150-4. Two systems at near TB > (850gb) > > SUSE 9.3 -10.0 and Mandriva both liked them. I have had good luck with all LSI products as well. I tend to prefer the LSI Logic cards when I need SCSI RAID,

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-16 Thread Tony Nichols
L PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:33 PM > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers > > > For IDE raid you have many choices but AFAIK only one is a true hardware > raid > card and thats 3Ware. 3Wa

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Colin Anderson
cussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers For IDE raid you have many choices but AFAIK only one is a true hardware raid card and thats 3Ware. 3Ware has good Linux support. I wouldn't touch anything else now. Regards, Lee > > Another important consideration is RAID. Pri

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Lee Sanders wrote: > For IDE raid you have many choices but AFAIK only one is a true hardware raid > card and thats 3Ware. 3Ware has good Linux support. > > I wouldn't touch anything else now. Agreed. 3ware PATA / SATA raid cards are cheap, and we spec them all the time. I

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Lee Sanders
For IDE raid you have many choices but AFAIK only one is a true hardware raid card and thats 3Ware. 3Ware has good Linux support. I wouldn't touch anything else now. Regards, Lee > > Another important consideration is RAID. Price/performance favors SATA > RAID and the selection of true hardware

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Totaro
> > Kevin Hanson wrote: > > > Are these servers used for calls to technical support? Just curious, > > because I have called in three times in the last couple of months and > > when I get transfered back to a tech support rep I hear a lot of echo on > > my end. Two of these calls were from my c

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Danny Froberg wrote: Any luck with the 1855's ? Never tried them, and I don't even know that they have PCI slots available anyway :-) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update opt

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Danny Froberg
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Brian Roy wrote: Which Dell models are you guys buying? I'm going to assume whichever you are using is not susceptible to some of the interrupt problems with the TE cards. All the recent ones have been 1850s, and two of them have TE411Ps in them with no problems so

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Latham
I thought the echo was ironic to until I remembered the thing about the plumber with leaking pipes :-) On 12/15/05, Kevin P. Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Hanson wrote: > > > Are these servers used for calls to technical support? Just curious, > > because I have called in three t

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Kevin Hanson wrote: Are these servers used for calls to technical support? Just curious, because I have called in three times in the last couple of months and when I get transfered back to a tech support rep I hear a lot of echo on my end. Two of these calls were from my cell phone, another fr

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin Hanson
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Brian Roy wrote: Which Dell models are you guys buying? I'm going to assume whichever you are using is not susceptible to some of the interrupt problems with the TE cards. All the recent ones have been 1850s, and two of them have TE411Ps in them with no problems so

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Nathan C. Smith wrote: As long as the external power supply can be mounted so it doesn't take up much rackspace (no wall warts) it's a solution that works. Not everybody will be happy about it, but "thems the breaks". That's what I've been trying to tell people here :-) __

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Nathan C. Smith
: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers Cory Andrews wrote: > Right now I am trying to work up a list of servers that will support > the > new Digium TDM2400 series, in terms of available space inside the > chassis to physical

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Brian Roy wrote: Which Dell models are you guys buying? I'm going to assume whichever you are using is not susceptible to some of the interrupt problems with the TE cards. All the recent ones have been 1850s, and two of them have TE411Ps in them with no problems so far. They are running Gento

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Cory Andrews wrote: Right now I am trying to work up a list of servers that will support the new Digium TDM2400 series, in terms of available space inside the chassis to physically fit the card in correctly. If you have any input on that I would love to hear about it. Honestly, the biggest

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Jason Becker
Cory Andrews wrote: Thanks Kevin - I appreciate the input. We are in the midst of constructing a PHP based iPBX "configurator" of sorts. One of the configuration routines we are mapping will give offer the ability to construct a 1U or 2U server. We will limit the range of configuration optio

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Roy
On 12/15/05, Kevin P. Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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-bitCPUs (also Intel, obviously) so fo

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Cory Andrews
- From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers Cory Andrews wrote: VOIPSupply.com is now a SuperMicro direct partner. We ar

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Paul
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, b

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Cory Andrews
riented Asterisk Discussion" Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers 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 co

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Paul
Cory Andrews wrote: > VOIPSupply.com is now a SuperMicro direct partner. We are currently > evaluating the SuperMicro server product line and determining which > models to standardize on. I'd appreciate any input from Asterisk > integrators who are using SuperMicro server platforms, if there are

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
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 Optero

Re: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Cory Andrews
; Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:38 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers I hope you will consider some servers that use Opteron processors. Dual power supplies can also be very important. -Nate -Original Message- From: Cory Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Nathan C. Smith
I hope you will consider some servers that use Opteron processors. Dual power supplies can also be very important. -Nate -Original Message- From: Cory Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:33 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion S