HP vs Dell? - Entry Level Server for VM

Zaf said:
If you need a redundant system where fines are in place if it go's down I would never buy blades as you have one point of failure!
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Only if you have one blade enclosure. And then you'd have to ask yourself about whether it was the best ROI.

The real issues with blades are around storage and network fabric scale out. And those issues can be resolved with adequate planning and wedge.
 
On the HP vs Dell server front - we find HP Insight Manager much better than Dell Open Manage (these are the HW monitoring agents).


HP-SIM seems to support way more platforms + seems more comprehensive on what it picks up (also the WBEM/cim discovery for VM's on ESX is very handy).

Got about a thousand HP servers (G4 to G6 gens) and about 400 Dell boxes (same kinda ages).

We get more HW failures on the Dell side - but only around a 85% pickup rate for the OpenManage alerts :eek:
 
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