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Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.

There are multiple, physical components that are required for a computer to function. This is collectively referred to as the "hardware". The most notable components inside of a computer system is the RAM, Hard Disk (or hard drive), CPU, and Power Supply.

Outside of the case, however, hardware exists as well. Some of these components include the keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

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Building Own Hypervisor Hardware, And Looking For A Parts List

We are thinking of building our own hypervisor hardware (in high volumes) for our virtualized hosting platform, instead of buying from Dell. Our model is small virtual machines 256MB of memory, and 10-15GB of disk. So, its a lot of small virtual…
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Multiple Servers, Multiple Domain Names, One External IP, IIS 7

I have looked through post and web listing, and I am not finding what I need so I will see if I can make some sense here. I should mention I am more of a programmer, and just happen to be doing this because in this company I am the most…
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proliant dl 380 g4 outside deploy

I bought a dl380 server and the noise is very high to stay inside my home. Can i deploy the server outside (not in balcony, outside) in a box of metal? I need a specialist opinion because i can lose money, warranty and my server; this is the only…
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Need hardware specification recommendation for a .NET4 WCF service server

I need a rough HW specification recommendation for a server with the following SW and usage specs: Windows Server 2003 or 2008. One .Net4 WCF service hosted on IIS, or self-hosted. 100 concurrent internet users, about 1 req/client/minute. Mandatory…
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5Mill Users: how much hardware?

I am working on a project and we expect about 5 Million Users per day. It is a litte web application, written in php and we are currently using Apache to serve the requests. My problem: I don't know how to calculate the hardware, I need to serve 5…
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Can I simulate a storage device in a VM to test OS image driver compatability?

Greetings, I'm trying to automate the testing of driver support in a library of OS images used for automated deployment in a data center environment. In most cases, I see people standardize on a few OSs and a few server hardware models, which makes…
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Buying a Server vs Hosting on a Datacenter

I'm planning to host a website. It would be a photo-sharing website. I'm trying to find out a server that I should buy to put the website online. The website is in Apache PHP. I'm assuming the number of users as 10,000 and 1000 are uploading the…
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Can I configure a RAID 1 on the Dell Poweredge 860 with the onboard SATA Controller

Is there a way to set up a RAID 1 with two SATA HDD on a DELL Poweredge 860 that has no specific RAID Controller? I want to use the on board SATA controller to set up my RAID 1.
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Can't access BIOS - (NEC Express 5800 140hd)

When i try to enter the BIOS pushing F2 when asked ("Push F2 to enter...") i can see "Entering the BIOS..." for 3 seconds on the screen and then my server continue to start normaly. (notice: i can hear an alarm) Battery issue ? Can I try to flash…
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How to read HP's manual about ram modules?

On page 48 in this user guide, it is explained in which order memory modules should be installed for an HP DL385 server with AMD Opteron CPUs. There are 12 banks per CPU, and I have 6 x 4GB + 2 x 2GB modules for each CPU. How should the chart be…
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'Panicking' HP DL385 G2s since moving to RHEL 5.3

We have a number of HP DL385 G2s which kernel panic after installing RHEL 5.3. All are up-to-date with firmware CD 8.50. The initial RHEL 5.3 installation always works and in most cases the first boot is fine (kernel 2.6.18-128.el5); so far 1 in 4…
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Slow network performance when I open files from a local network server

When I try to open a file from a network share, the file takes much longer than expected to open. It will eventuallly open, but is very slow I have restared both the server and my local computer, checked the network card , updated firmware and…
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How much Memory supported By Intel Xeon 5506

I want to buy a HP DL160 server which using XEON 5506 CPU. The supplier told me that only 6 memory item support for each CPU. I have read the DL160 specification which said a maximum of 144G memory was supported and there were 18 memory slots. So I…
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How to check at which PCI-Express mode a NIC operates

I have PCIe x4 NIC plugged into PCIe x16 slot. I have read, that even though it should run in x4 mode, it's not guaranteed: the network card can run in backward compatibility 1x mode. How to verify this under Linux?
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Asterisk-Dahdi, get status channel

I have Asterisk 1.6 with a analogic card X100p that work properly. I want to detect if the card is in use or not (the status of the card). Please any one get the problem before ?
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