[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Dell server donation deadline approaching

[Matt Domsch]

Greetings.  As I mentioned on IRC and on email a bit back, Dell would
like to donate a couple servers to the Fedora project, to be used
wherever hardware (not people) are the bottleneck towards progress.
We've got budgeted enough for 2 moderately configured PowerEdge 2950
servers, and have until about July 18 to get them ordered (else we lose
the money).  I'd be happy to work with whomever appropriate to get the
order placed.

Please cc: me explicitly as I'm not on f-i-l.

Thanks,
Matt

--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:44, Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com wrote:
>  Greetings.  As I mentioned on IRC and on email a bit back, Dell
> would
>  like to donate a couple servers to the Fedora project, to be used
>  wherever hardware (not people) are the bottleneck towards progress.
>  We've got budgeted enough for 2 moderately configured PowerEdge 2950
>  servers, and have until about July 18 to get them ordered (else we lose
>  the money).  I'd be happy to work with whomever appropriate to get the
>  order placed.
>
>  Please cc: me explicitly as I'm not on f-i-l. 
If possible, I would like to mark one of these for Legacy use.  We'll need a 
box to run plague from, and a box to do the sign+push from.  Legacy is a fun 
issue as I'd like to push to the existing updates/ tree for the legacy 
releases.  Not sure how well that's going to work, but that's another topic 
for another day.

BTW< any progress on a CVS tree of FC3 for Legacy to use?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

[Mike McGrath]

On 7/5/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:44, Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com wrote:
>  > Greetings.  As I mentioned on IRC and on email a bit back, Dell would
>  > like to donate a couple servers to the Fedora project, to be used
>  > wherever hardware (not people) are the bottleneck towards progress.
>  > We've got budgeted enough for 2 moderately configured PowerEdge 2950
>  > servers, and have until about July 18 to get them ordered (else we lose
>  > the money).  I'd be happy to work with whomever appropriate to get the
>  > order placed.
>  >
>  > Please cc: me explicitly as I'm not on f-i-l.
>
>  If possible, I would like to mark one of these for Legacy use.  We'll need a
>  box to run plague from, and a box to do the sign+push from.  Legacy is a fun
>  issue as I'd like to push to the existing updates/ tree for the legacy
>  releases.  Not sure how well that's going to work, but that's another topic
>  for another day.
>
>  BTW< any progress on a CVS tree of FC3 for Legacy to use?
>
>  --
>  Jesse Keating
>  Release Engineer: Fedora
>  
I'm working on the Legacy stuff now, should be done soon.

         -Mike

[Elliot Lee]

Assuming we have rack space in the colo (Stacy?), it sounds like we  
can use one machine for Fedora Legacy, and I think we really ought to  
start thinking about having more than one database server, so just  
tell me what I need to do to help you get this ordered...

Best,
-- Elliot

On Jul 5, 2006, at 16:44, <Matt_Domsch(a)Dell.com&gt;  
<Matt_Domsch(a)Dell.com&gt; wrote:

>  Greetings.  As I mentioned on IRC and on email a bit back, Dell
> would
>  like to donate a couple servers to the Fedora project, to be used
>  wherever hardware (not people) are the bottleneck towards progress.
>  We've got budgeted enough for 2 moderately configured PowerEdge 2950
>  servers, and have until about July 18 to get them ordered (else we  
>  lose
>  the money).  I'd be happy to work with whomever appropriate to get the
>  order placed.
>
>  Please cc: me explicitly as I'm not on f-i-l.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Matt
>
>  --
>  Matt Domsch
>  Software Architect
>  Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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[Mike McGrath]

On 7/5/06, Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Assuming we have rack space in the colo (Stacy?), it sounds like we
>  can use one machine for Fedora Legacy, and I think we really ought to
>  start thinking about having more than one database server, so just
>  tell me what I need to do to help you get this ordered...
>
>  Best,
>  -- Elliot 
+1 on the database server.

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:43:03PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
>  Assuming we have rack space in the colo (Stacy?), it sounds like we 
>
>  can use one machine for Fedora Legacy, and I think we really ought to  
>  start thinking about having more than one database server, so just  
>  tell me what I need to do to help you get this ordered... 
Short of it is, go to dell.com, large business segment, and spec out
PowerEdge 2950 systems like you need (they need not be identical).  Send me
the "Print Summary" page of SKUs for each config, and I'll see if it
fits in the budget, then we can negotiate features up/down depending
on leftover money.

For example,  2 x dual-core Xeon 5130 4MB CPUs, 8GB RAM, 3 146GB
10krpm SAS disks, PERC5/i controller, dual gigabit ethernet, DRAC5,
rails, cables etc. is within the budget if you wanted 2 systems like
that. :-)

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com