SAS 6/iR card compatability

Ish · 12 Nov 2009 at 11:24

Hi

Does anyone know of a list that shows all Dell servers that this card is compatible with?

We need a basic Dell server that will work with this card to use as a web filtering gateway. The filtering software only works with this card.

I have seen plenty of cheap Dell poweredge 1550/1650/1750/250 on an auction site but I need to be sure that this card will work in the server before I buy it.

TIA

Yamahahahahaha · 12 Nov 2009 at 11:53

It requires a PCI-E 8x slot, so the server will need that.
You can get the drivers off the Dell site.

I'd be more concerned about getting drivers that match the OS (Assuming it's not Win2k3 / Win2k8).

Sin_Chase · 12 Nov 2009 at 12:55

Filtering software is reliant on a HBA?

lolwut? Oo

Ish · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:08

www.icritical.com is the system we are looking at. It uses linux so no windows o/s is requried and Icritical say that that SAS 6i/R card is a must.

TBH as a small company with around 13 users the cost of the server is going to be the deciding factor on whether we go with icritical or not.

Yamahahahahaha · 12 Nov 2009 at 16:47

What's wrong with something like Sophos + Pure Message?

madman045 · 12 Nov 2009 at 19:22

or if you have an exchange server in place, why not look at an external filtering solution?

DRZ · 12 Nov 2009 at 22:59

Ish said:
www.icritical.com is the system we are looking at. It uses linux so no windows o/s is requried and Icritical say that that SAS 6i/R card is a must.

TBH as a small company with around 13 users the cost of the server is going to be the deciding factor on whether we go with icritical or not.

Have you considered doing it "in the cloud"? There are plenty of services out there that can do it.

Not sure how much iCritical is going to set you back (plus the server) but have you looked at Cisco IronPort?

DustyMiller · 13 Nov 2009 at 10:30

or even messagelabs

Sp00n · 13 Nov 2009 at 10:32

You are setting up an entire server for web filtering?

Get a Juniper or something.

oh.. and lol @ a single scsi card being supported.

#Chri5# · 13 Nov 2009 at 11:51

Sp00n said:
You are setting up an entire server for web filtering?

Get a Juniper or something.

oh.. and lol @ a single scsi card being supported.

If it's related to this thread, then the OP already has a SonicWall appliance which could run the content filter. iCritical + a server is the cheaper option apparently...

atomiser · 13 Nov 2009 at 13:10

if it's just for an office with 13 people, why not just get a decent brand sff business pc (something like an hp d-series) with an intel chipset, p4, couple of gigs memory and some decent intel nic's and run something like untangle? can't get much cheaper than that if you run the community edition. if you want support, then they have a paid-for option too.