John R Pierce wrote:
the HS20's do run CentOS v3 -and- v4 quite nicely, I've got a number
of HS20's (sans raid, just single internal SCSI drives), and
everything just works out of box. I've installed both x86_64 and i686
on them.
PDU? Mine are just plugged into the rack's existing 208V dual rails.
i have 3GB each of ram in mine. Mine have dual Xeon 2.8Ghz CPUs w/
2MB cache. you can get a gigE copper 'passthrough' module that just
gives you discrete 14 ethernet cables for each port of each machine
instead of buying into their cisco or nortel switches... with
hindsight, I kinda wish I'd gotten the internal switches, would have
saved a lot of cable mess. those little tiny 'lame-o' 2.5" drives
aren't laptop drives, they are 10,000 rpm u320 scsi drives, the
Seagate Savvio enterprise drives that all the server folks are
switching to as they can get more drives in less space. I've got 2G
fiberchannel adapters in my blades, so they can talk to a SAN, and
they can even boot off of iSCSI if so configured (that I haven't
tested yet)
you can also get dual Opteron blades, PowerPC blades that run AIX, and
even a Cell blade for doing Cell based scientific number crunching.
I didn't actually spec and order what I'm playing with at the moment,
but I'll look into it going forward.
And thanks to the guys who replied to this ever so OT thread, I just
learned a bunch of things I didn't know
about the stuff I have, including what accessories I want to get for
them going down the road the next couple
of months.
Peter
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