Dell Poweredge 6850

I recently purchased the Dell PowerEdge 6850 from eBay.  The server is the rackmount form factor and it works exquisitely for the purpose I bought it (to run VMWare Server inside Ubuntu linux).

Status: LINUX COMPATIBLE

Dell Poweredge 6850Distributions

  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (64bit Edition)

Specifications

  • 4 x Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz
  • 8GB RAM
  • 5 x 73GB HotSwap SCSI drives
  • Generic Video Card (Console install only)
  • 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
  • USB Input Devices (no PS/2)

Special Notes

This is a SERVER and as such you are unlikely to want to install a full desktop on it.  I opted to install the console only.  You can install a full desktop, it is just unlikely you’d want to.