Re: [MLUG] buying a nice Linux server

["Ryan Thornton" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If you still like Dell, I'm familiar with the Dell 2950 server:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2950_3?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

The PERC / DRAC / OpenManage are easier to work with as far as
sysadmin functions.

The HP Proliant DL380 G5's are also well liked.

As long as you get the fastest quad core cpu, with enough ram and
those as many large SAS drives as you can fit then it should be a big
performance boost.

My group only does RHEL, and there are lots more Oracle installations
now that we have larger servers.  (Oracle RAC too) (although SUSE is
being forced on one project)

- Ryan

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I'm going to start looking for a good Linux server pretty soon.
>
> I bought something from Dell about five years ago:
>
> http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/mlug/linuxbox.html
>
> We actually dropped the second disk before ordering because we planned to
> connect to a disk array by fiber optic cable.  Never did it though and now
> need to buy a second disk (SCSI costs way more than SATA!).
>
> I will be doing a lot of database work on this machine.  It will need lots
> of disk space and probably lots of RAM (e.g., 12 GB?), multiple CPUs, and
> I think 64-bit architecture and 64-bit Linux OS.
>
> So what do you think is the way to go?
>
> Also, we'll want to run Oracle on it, which might require certain choices
> in Linux distro, but I'm not sure on that -- anyone know anything?
>
> Mike
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