[olug] [slightly-OT] Hardware recommendations.

[crom]

We get Dell rackmounts on Ebay all the time and have very good luck
2850's, 2950's etc.  Pricing is excellent quite often with some of the
Dell warranty left

Obi-Wan wrote:
> We used HP ProLiant DL-series servers for our VMware farm at the hospital.
> They worked wonderfully.  Memory was always our limiting resource, so
> get as much (or room for as much) as you can afford.  We ran DL585's,
> but a smaller or less-robust farm could use 380's or 360's.  Used
> systems are plentiful.  They're not cheap new, but they're reliable
> and HP support is wonderful.  I think the newer 380's have room for
> six or eight SAS drives (2U).
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