Tech Recycling was Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Joe Gibbs
Their website says that they have a west side drop off point and Battery Plus was added to the list. I suggest calling ahead to confirm. http://www.azstrut.org/donate.html * 4240 W. CAMELBACK RD. PHOENIX, AZ 85019 Located at Stardust Building Materials Drop-Off Hours: Wednesdays from 9am to 3pm

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
You can buy a nice newer PE that will run Vmware for less than what you would have to put into it to use it. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > On 06/14/2012 10:21 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > >> Well, if you're going to trash it, at least give it to that recyle place >> - a

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Shubert
On 06/14/2012 10:21 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: Well, if you're going to trash it, at least give it to that recyle place - azstrut I think - or some place like that. AzStrut on the east side. N side of Broadway just east of Dobson behind Stardust Building Materials, Tu,Th 9-3. If you're on the

RE: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Well, if you're going to trash it, at least give it to that recyle place - azstrut I think - or some place like that. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: ht

RE: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Lee Reynolds
-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert Sent: Thu 6/14/2012 9:23 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450 On 06/13/2012 09:11 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 06/12/2012 04:20 PM, James Dugger wrote: >&g

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Butash
I second simply killing it off, unless you need a space heater. I've got a pair of 1850's with p4-based xeon's running esx that are barely suitable for any heavy crunching guests (my minecraft server would regularly kill the box with a big world), so I doubt you'll get much mileage with p3-lev

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Shubert
On 06/13/2012 09:11 PM, Thomas Cameron 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 s

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
James On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM, James Dugger wrote: > Lisa, Thanks I have been looking into VMware, though I hadn't thought of > Citrix. It looks like there's known issues with VMware on this server: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&exte

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread James Dugger
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 i

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Cameron
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 133MH

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-13 Thread James Crawford
> >My first thought was a NAS server however to take full advantage of hardware RAID I would need to find a second daughter card to take fully >use the dual channel backplane and controller it will work as one channel but just slower. Also since the drives are 1 - old, 2 - small in size, and 3

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-12 Thread Lisa Kachold
Makes a nice exsi 3.5 VMware server? Or Citrix XenServer? On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:20 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

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-12 Thread James Dugger
Sorry, butter fingers I hit send instead of return somehow. 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 (Only one channel is available with only

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-12 Thread Stephen
be a nice low end lamp or firewall. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:20 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