Soldato
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Production VMWare stack is 5x HP DL380's - 60 cores, 1Tb RAM. Recently upgraded, 50% RAM usage, CPU < 20%.
We have a DR site with 2 old HP servers, 24 cores, 128Gb RAM. These won't run enough of our infrastructure to provide a worthy DR solution. 24 current cores and 512Gb RAM is the requirement, so we need 2 new servers.
The debate has come about over whether we should have identical servers in our DR site. From a standardisation point of view good, but if there is a major firmware bug or hardware issue we might experience the same problem rendering the DR site useless.
The other issue is we're looking at HP DL380 Gen 8's vs Dell R720's, Dell are offering a slightly better spec but £5k cheaper over a pair of servers. I prefer Dell, colleague prefers HP.
Which way would you jump?
We have a DR site with 2 old HP servers, 24 cores, 128Gb RAM. These won't run enough of our infrastructure to provide a worthy DR solution. 24 current cores and 512Gb RAM is the requirement, so we need 2 new servers.
The debate has come about over whether we should have identical servers in our DR site. From a standardisation point of view good, but if there is a major firmware bug or hardware issue we might experience the same problem rendering the DR site useless.
The other issue is we're looking at HP DL380 Gen 8's vs Dell R720's, Dell are offering a slightly better spec but £5k cheaper over a pair of servers. I prefer Dell, colleague prefers HP.
Which way would you jump?