New server
I jumped on a good deal from dell this week. If you configured a server with $2600 or more before adding it to the cart, it took $750 off the top instantly. I was able to get the following server for $2200 after shipping and tax and an additional $1200 from newegg to buy the 16GB (4×4GB) ram and 2 Fitjusu 300GB 15k SAS drives.
Dell 1950 III 1u server
dual 2.5ghz E5420 Quad cores with 12MB caches each, 1333fsb, 80 watt
16GB PC5300 667mhz FB ECC Ram (4 slots free to be able to push it to 32 or 48GB)
Dual 670w hot swappable power supplies
Dual hot swappable 300GB 15k 3.5″ SAS, 16MB cache
PERC6i dedicated PCIE-8x array controller with 256MB accelerator cache with Battery backup
DRAC5 remote access card
Rail kit with cable management arm
3 Year warranty and NBD hardware response
Will be running VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 3
Should be here mid Jan and I’ll get it racked in Feb with fishcomputers in Dallas Colocation 1/3 rack we’re renting.
My new job has been going really good. I am still on contract but should be going full time hire very soon. I’m thier only linux guy right now so I’m being looked to, to do anything with linux until they can hire a linux engineer. Even after they hire a linux engineer its still going to be a lot of work on my end because I’ll be the tech implimenting everything and get first crack at troubleshooting issues before escalating to the engineer. I’ll also have to train the rest of the team I work with on linux and I imagine at least for a while I’ll be on 24/7 call if a linux system has an issue until the rest of the team is up to speed on the OS.
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