Poll: What's your server vendor of choice?
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Dell all the way.
Excellent range of servers from "cheap & cheerful" all the way up to the highest spec known to man.
Great SAN and NAS solutions too.
We're currently looking to move to Dell Blades from our existing Dell servers.
Dell server support is excellent - you bypass front line support and get to speak with knowledgeable people.
Excellent range of servers from "cheap & cheerful" all the way up to the highest spec known to man.
Great SAN and NAS solutions too.
We're currently looking to move to Dell Blades from our existing Dell servers.
Dell server support is excellent - you bypass front line support and get to speak with knowledgeable people.
HP servers and HP switches
It was previously all Dell until about 2-3 years ago when i started, we then started standardizing in HP and have gone that way ever since, the older dell stuff was awful and put us off their newer stuff
It was previously all Dell until about 2-3 years ago when i started, we then started standardizing in HP and have gone that way ever since, the older dell stuff was awful and put us off their newer stuff
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Actually thats not true and one of the enterprise criticisms of Dell kit, they don't have the very high end kit like you can buy from HP, IBM, Sun and they don't have the carrier class servers that HP or Sun can provide. It's actually all very low end kit.
the 1950 and 2950 units are very nice.
in fact i prefer them over the HP ml380 g4's we have, they feel a little flimsey.
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No Cisco?
Do they actually make their own servers? i thought they only sold switches and rebranded servers from other companies such as dell?
So....a server with:
4x 6 Core Xeon X7460 (24 cores total)
256GB RAM
This wouldn't be classed as "Very High End Kit"?
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Not anywhere close - no x86 kit would be. Dell don't have any high end unix, no Itanium or similar....
While that's probably a little academic today except for the most demanding workloads due to virtualisation and the way clustering has changed system architectures it's still true that no x86 product, let alone a 4 socket system (HP have 8 socket x86 systems out...) is going to be considered very high end. HP's 'mid-range' (by their description) integrity systems have 32 cores and 512GB RAM.
But far more damning of Dell is the lack (to my knowledge) of NEBS certified kit, which means carriers won't touch them. Yet another damning problem is the huge R900 with it's 24 cores and 256GB RAM, can't be specified with DC power supplies - what?? That's another big chunk of possible customers who're passing on it.
Dell are an SME vendor to a large extent, they lack an in house SAN platform to compete with the offerings from HP or several other vendors. Sun's little known myriad of storage options are probably better than Dell's technically.
Now if you're running 50 or even 250 servers on AC power, have low end storage requirements and your most demanding application is exchange then that doesn't matter and if you're happy with Dell there's no reason to doubt them. But they don't play at the high end.
Although i don't agree with him, i will say that ram could be low quality non branded stuff and the motherboards could be pretty standard low quality bits of kit in comparison
There probably not, but they could be, but just pointing out that throwing big numbers around doesn't nessacarily make something good
or he could just say that above and put us all in our places ^
HP - just works and keeps on working. Great 4 hour response. Only one downside is that there call centres are in India and communication is sometimes lacking (i.e. you raise a fault and they don't really record the fault correctly and it sometimes takes several phone calls to get it sorted).
Apart from that can't complain about the prices or quality of the kit.
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Apart from that can't complain about the prices or quality of the kit.
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even the HP staff at the bristol tech center slate the support. quite frankly it has to be the worst support desk ever.
im not arguing, but surely any server room demanding that sort of kit should have 32amp supplies? luckily our building used to be a datacenter so we had them already installed before we got our HP EVA..
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I don't think you quite grasped what he's getting at. I have a 32A Socket running a UPS for single socket dell kit. It's not about the Ampreage.