Dell PowerEdge T110 $329 Shipped + Tax

[Urraca]

Interesting. Why do you think it is so limiting?

Seems that the only limitation is that USB runs at 1.1 speed? No work around was needed to work around though either...

...this is so tempting...

 

[DSee]

I tried to add X3440 and remove teh HDD from this deal, couldn't get this to work @ chat.

 

[stiltner]

Buy system, remove 2 x 1GB sticks.

Insert 4 x 4gb Crucial DDR3 ECC @ 135/set
2 x HD of your flavor and size

VM's will have a ton of memory to play with,
and you can size your HD purchase to your
needs, run a RAID1 if you care about data integrity
(ie. your porn collection) and off you go.

~750 OTD

Turn around and sell the other parts (the 250gb / memory) if you want
to. Dell used to buy that crap back I dunno if they still do

 

[Chibo]

Call Dell.

I hate to bump this thread but do they seriously let you do this if you call?

 

[Netwerkz101]

I hate to bump this thread but do they seriously let you do this if you call?

In my experience - no.
I tried myself with this particular system (T110 Gen 1).

Some time ago though ... I do remember people posting about
selling back pieces of systems they didn't want/need to Dell.

May be a YMMV type of thing.

Anyhow ... even at $329 ... it's a decent deal still
for an entry level virtualization system out the box.

It is _not_ a whitebox system for ESXi ...it's load and go
from 4.0.1 up (XenServer 5.0+ - im running 5.6 FP1).

 

[RiDDLeRThC]

Have one at home running ESXi with 16gb of ram. Been a great little server.

 

[RooK]

I know it's good for bare metal hypervisors (at least ESXi (vSphere) and XenServer).
I don't see why ESX would be a problem.

no reason to be using esx anyways... I believe vmware is only going to support esxi very soon.