Lisa, Thanks I have been looking into VMware, though I hadn't thought of Citrix.
James, I will look into AZ State Surplus.
Thomas, I have a 42U rack and have the space for it. However you are right it is not very green. I have thought of gutting it and keeping the 2U case however I don't know if it is worth the effort (or even possible) to retrofit it to work with a new face plate tom increase the number of drive bays. Probably would end up with very poor air flow anyway.
Thanks all.
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron@camerontech.com> wrote:
On 06/12/2012 04:20 PM, James Dugger wrote:
I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere
in my network running as a linux server. It was being used two months
ago as a VPN server running Windows 2003 Server.
Here are the secs:
2 - 866 MHz Pentium Processors
Bus 133MHz
cache 256 KB
2048 MB ECC SDRAM
built in adaptec hardware RAID controller
SCSI dual channel backplane - w/1 daughter card installed
4 - 3.5 hot swap drivebays
If it were me, I'd sell it on craigslist or eBay and use the cash to buy a modern multicore motherboard, memory, and processor in a desktop case. Seriously, for a few hundred bucks you can get a system that sips power comparatively, has many more - and much faster - CPUs, and has as much more more memory.
I've given up trying to repurpose machines that old. The cost in power alone over the course of a year makes it smarter to get rid of it.
TC
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James