Is here anyone in the forum, who has bought hardware in 2008 and than has installed Astaro succesfully on it? I would interesting in details of this hardware.
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Thank you for the information, Andre. Do you use an E200i or an P400i as RAID-Controller. And whats about the processor? Depends the compatibility to Astaro on it or can I take what ever I get?
It seems the HP DL 360 G5 is the most recommended system for Astaro, did anyone knew an actual system, that is smaller sized?
We build some custom systems for use in specialized situations; as long as we stick to chipsets, NICs, etc. that are in the HCL we don't have any problems.
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I like the HP AMD stuff better, like the DL365, fwiw. In fact, we may be upgrading our DL145 with a DL365 for better fault tolerance (RAID, dual PS), and keep the dl145 as a cold standby. It's hard to find anything recent, but in the past, Athlon/Opteron did much better on Linux Netfilter benchmarks than the P4/Xeons. There's no benchmarks for the current http proxy/content filter though, afaik.
If you want VERY small and low-power, many people here are using VIA C7 based systems. Most have Realtek NICs though, which aren't the greatest, but the drivers are gradually improving. Intel NICs are available on some of the C7 boards, or you can usually add 1 PCI card (low-profile if you want the smaller cases).
The ASG120 is small, but I think it's slower than the recent C7 stuff.
Also, the Intel Atom boards look VERY promising, but there are annoyances with the current ones (higher power consumption due to a 22watt desktop chipset, no gigE, no PCIe).
AMD also has a chip in the works to compete with the Atom.
If you want 1U, but shorter than than a DL36x, the DL145 is a little smaller. We used to use a Dell PE350; it was the shortest major-brand 1U server I've seen, but I'm no expert. You lose the option for dual power supplies and RAID on the smaller systems though.
Some companies sell 1U chassis which take two ATX motherboards; you could have a Astaro hot-failover setup in 1U that way... best to make sure there's 2 power supplies though.
You should probably be more specific by what you mean by small, and how much traffic/users you need to handle.
For the record, the D201GLY2 is discontinued, being replaced by the D945GCLF Intel Atom board. The D201GLY2 probably uses less power though, until they start sellling a better chipset with the Atom.
The D201GLY2 has the same limitations though; 10/100 only, and PCI only.
