[ale] server troubles (again)

[JD]

On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote: 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1
>> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.
> 
> I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers on the table
> as well.
> 
> Downsides:
> MCA SCSI Drives
> 2U Form Factor
> Needs rails
> Noisy (belongs in a rack)
> 
> Upside:
> Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs
> Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed
> 4096MB Ram
> Dual Power Supplies
> 
> Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.
> 
> I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number crunching.  Between
> the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my office and one
> is already buried in a rack.
> 
> We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.
> 

Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a libvirt box with a
few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.