Dell R510 Server x2

Hey guys,

I'd like to get your thoughts on the following. Due to some management decisions, two of the brand-new, still in the box servers are going to be sold and not used. As a Non-Profit company, we purchased these from Dell about 30 days ago for $3,080 each. We're selling them for 60% of that cost or $1848/each so I quickly raised my hand and said I would buy them both. What would you do with these two servers? ***Note, retail on Dell's site puts these servers at $5700 each!

•PowerEdge R510
PowerEdge R510:
PE R510 Chassis for Up to Eight Hot Swap Hard Drives, LCD R5108W 1 [224-8665] 1

Processor:
Intel® Xeon® X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1333MHz Max Mem X5650 1 [317-4109] 6

Additional Processor:
Intel® Xeon® X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1333MHz Max Mem 2X5650 1 [317-2374][317-4121] 7

Memory:
16GB Memory (4x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked RDIMMs for 2 Processors, Advanced ECC, Mirror 16MRD2P 1 [317-2561] 3

Operating System:
No Operating System NOOS 1 [420-6320] 11

Hard Drives:
8 - 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Hot Plug Hard Drive

Hard Drive Configuration:
No RAID for SAS 6/iR and PERC H200 Controllers, x8 Chassis SPH2NR 1 [330-5483] 27

Primary Controller:
SAS 6/iR Integrated with PERC,SAS 6/iR Cable, Hot Plug, 8HD SAS6IRH 1 [330-5574][342-0468] 9

1st Hard Drive:
HD Multi-Select HDMULTI 1 [341-4158] 8

Power Supply:
750 Watt Redundant Power Supply 750RPS 1 [330-6598] 36

Power Cords:
2x NEMA 5-15P to C13 Wall Plug, 125 Volt, 15 AMP, 10 Feet (3m), Power Cord 2125V10 1 [310-8509][310-8509] 38

Embedded Management:
iDRAC6 Express DRAC6X 1 [313-8777] 14

Network Adapter:
2x Intel PRO 1000PT 1GbE Single Port NIC, PCIe-1 21000PS 1 [430-0955][430-0955] 13

Rails:
Sliding Ready Rails with Cable Management Arm RRCMA 1 [330-6276] 28

Bezel:
Bezel BEZEL 1 [313-8551] 17

Internal Optical Drive:
DVD ROM, SATA, Internal DVD8 1 [313-9092][330-5576] 16

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dynamik

eBay one to cover the discounted cost of both and enjoy your free server

down77

dynamik wrote: »

eBay one to cover the discounted cost of both and enjoy your free server

+1!

Worst case if you wanted to keep them you would have a great lab environment. Good time to play with vSphere and virtualize systems for testing/training. The downside will be when you get your power bill, especially if they are as power hungry as the HP DL 380 G4s I had running at the house.

BroadcastStorm

Hi GenX I might be interested in purchasing one of those servers, I am hosting a web server at home

hopefuly we can chat more...

cablegod

They should sell easily because Dell is WAY behind in production for that model at the moment. They had an unforecasted GIANT order come in and wipe out all stock of the chassis for this particular model.

Darthn3ss

VMWare and dynamips

bertieb

genXrcist wrote: »

What would you do with these two servers?

Ummmm, give them to me?

Well you can't blame me for trying

I agree with Dynamik!

genXrcist

I agree, selling one to pay for the other makes the most sense to me.

Since they both have 4x4GB of RAM I was thinking I'd take the RAM out of one and put it in the other. But that would dramatically drop the price of the other, not only because it wouldn't have RAM but it would then be an Open-Box item. Would be cool to have 32GB of RAM though.

I will definitely be labbing the heck out of Hyper-V & SCVMM. I'll also likely test ESXi. Oh and since I'll be doing CCNP next year Dynamips will be run as well.

BroadcastStorm wrote: »

Hi GenX I might be interested in purchasing one of those servers, I am hosting a web server at home hopefuly we can chat more...

Broadcast, I'll definitely be in touch with you as soon as I procure them.

cablegod wrote: »

They should sell easily because Dell is WAY behind in production for that model at the moment. They had an unforecasted GIANT order come in and wipe out all stock of the chassis for this particular model.

Wow, I had no idea. This is good news for me! How did you find this out?

earweed

Yeah keeping both would probably be a bad idea as teh electric bill would take a huge hit. You can probaly just price some more RAM and buy it as you'll probably come out ahead since the no RAM in the box would drop the price more than the cost of purchasing it.
You just got yourself a really good lab comp there for cheap. Hopefully you'll find that it helps you out in the end.

cablegod

genXrcist wrote: »

Wow, I had no idea. This is good news for me! How did you find this out?

I had a few of that model on order and keep seeing the ship date slip further and further out. My rep told me. I canned the order and went with the R910's last week.

demonfurbie

it would make a nice honeynet if ya use vmware or similar

Mojo_666

dynamik wrote: »

eBay one to cover the discounted cost of both and enjoy your free server

+1 Perfect idea and you get a free server which kicks my servers ass. :<