Off Topic Server recommendations

[George Toft]

I manage an HP server for a small company and it has an ILO (Dell calls 
it a DRAC).  If you never want to set foot in the company (AKA, work in 
your pajamas), setting up the ILO is awesome.  Even if the box is going 
through reboot, or you're stuck in maintenance mode (the infamous "Press 
^D to continue startup" message) and SSHD isn't even running, the ILO 
gives you the console over TCP/IP and you can do everything from ILO.  I 
think you can even power off/on the server from ILO.

I'm pretty sure I'll never buy another server for a customer without it.

Regards,

George Toft

On 4/7/2014 7:01 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote:
> I just want to get your experiences regarding server purchases. The 
> server is meant for a small business with about 10+ people and does 
> not need to be utilized 24/7. I was wondering if I should build my own 
> or go with and OEM such as dell. I would consider HP but I do like 
> Dell's direct to purchase/customization but I am free for suggestions. 
> I was thinking an Xeon E3 quad core, about 8gb of ram, 4 500gb hard 
> drives and that should be about it. I am thinking about building my 
> own because a lot of the server boards come with IPMI support and the 
> Dell model I was looking at was the T1102 which does not inlcude IPMI 
> what so ever. Thanks for taking the time.
>
> -- 
> Nadim Hoque
>
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