Another HP story. Not nearly on the scale you're talking about, but the company I works for uses HP DL360 G5's as the hardware they sell to customers. Before we

Another HP story. Not nearly on the scale you're talking about, but the company I works for uses HP DL360 G5's as the hardware they sell to customers. Before we ship to customers, we open the box and install software and such. As a tester/engineer for this software, I've never seen a dead DL360 arrive. Yes, the shipping containers are huge. HP's iLO2 software (integrated lights-out) is excellent. Also, whatever machine you get, make sure you buy some extra rails and hardware. Store the extras somewhere and label them with the date purchased and which systems they are for.