Looking to buy a rack server - not sure on spec

celliott said:
I prefer to build my own to be honest, grab a Supermicro chassis + board and then add all the other bits. Can work out cheaper than prebuilt systems.

Howcome you are going in the Docklands? The prices are ridiculous now.
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No lights out management as standard, no warranty, no support. No serious business goes down that route. I've had HP come out and swap the entire chassis, motherboard, processors and RAM at 4 hours notice, thats worth paying for.

Docklands prices are proportionate to what you get, secure facilities and decent connectivity. The cheap alternative is some datacenter somebody has built on an industrial estate somewhere, maybe if you want to host a game server or something thats fine but I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
 
Well, inorder to provide tier 1 carrier service for VOIP (there are no companies that do that at the moment) The docklands is the place to go latency is very very very important.

But what do you guys think of that spec above for the price?
 
The Spec seems ok, you'll probably want to bump the support up I'd guess and whether you'll want 2 for day 1 is also another question to give you the level of resilience.
 
The G4p is old technology, I would only buy a G5 today. While it might be new it must be old stock as I'm fairly sure HP don't make them any more. The G5 is a big advance, faster Core architecture based processors and up to 6 SAS drives instead of 2 SCSI.

Who are you using as your interconnect provider out of interest?
 
Ok i think i've found a great deal.
DL360 G5, 1x5405 cpu, 2gb ram

using hp's offers, free upgrade of CPU, free insight control.
Now just to find where to buy it from, that can do it all.
 
h2009 said:
Ok i think i've found a great deal.
DL360 G5, 1x5405 cpu, 2gb ram

using hp's offers, free upgrade of CPU, free insight control.
Now just to find where to buy it from, that can do it all.
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There are a number of disti's that would be able to help im not sure which can be mentioned here though. If you can set up an account with one and claim the vat back.
 
h2009 said:
Whats your opinion on the IBM x3550 - http://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/quickpath?quickpath=797871G&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&brandind=5000008

Is it worth £450 brand new? - shop bought and with warranty.
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I know people who swear by IBM servers and they are well built and reliable. My only criticism is that the layout isn't as good as HP servers in my experience. Good servers though and reasonable value these days. If I wasn't a fan of HP and Sun hardware they'd be my next choice.
 
HP, Dell and IBM when buying in small quantities or when you have no specific specialist requirements are pretty much of a muchness. That server is equivalent to the DL360 it will do what you want, but the bottom line is how much do you want to spend, how much storage do you need and does the box meet your processing requirements.

To be honest regardless of whether its current or previous gen makes NO difference at all. Your buying new, you'll have a warranty which you'll be able to enhance if need be, you'll be able to get the parts for them all for a while at least, your not clustering or doing anything fancy from what you've described (load balancing won't be hardware bound), just go and buy what ever you can get at the best price you can which meets your requirements.
 
I can see your point, and i do agree but for £450 brand new, i cant really go wrong with that? Although the manufacture date is 26-09-2007 it should still be fine right?

I be honest i have very little experience with racks servers, so thats where im depending on the forums to help me out :)
 
h2009 said:
I can see your point, and i do agree but for £450 brand new, i cant really go wrong with that? Although the manufacture date is 26-09-2007 it should still be fine right?

I be honest i have very little experience with racks servers, so thats where im depending on the forums to help me out :)
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YES!!! but does the 450 inc storage and bumping the support as if your talking business critical the basic support might not meet your requirements? Or better still buy 2 setup load balancing as designed/spec'd by the software vendor and just let the thing run...
 
Yes it includes the storage, just need the software (OS) and its ready to roll out. The support is upgradable so that can be done if needed.
With regards to the load balancing it would be an overkill really. I'll have redundant system in place, soon after this is setup and running.
 
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