[ale] RHEL on PowerEdge servers from dell outlet

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:19 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> I am tasked to purchase a few Dell PowerEdge servers, cheap. Dell
> outlet seems to be a natual choice. I wonder if any ALEr wants to
> share his/her experience with 'scratch/dent' versus 'certified
> refurbished'.   A good bargain comes & goes so fast on their site. Any
> known trick to pull to ensure I get what I want w/o refreshing the
> page every so often (manually or using curl)? 
> I heard some horror stories about other outlets simply stamp their
> returned servers as 'certified' w/o going through really fixing up.
> Thus comes another question, how do people test/stress/prep the server
> for RHEL AS 4.4 installation? 

Make Dell install it. Then it is their problem if it doesn't work.

If you want to save some $$ on a decent server, build it yourself or
have it built locally from commodity parts. That way you have a full
list of installed parts, model numbers and can get access to
replacements in a hurry when needed.

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