Have you contacted your local HP rep, or VAR? Yes, one can argue that
servers are a commodity today. HP tends to be a far superior product, in
both reliability, support, and to a certain degree performance.
One of the drawbacks of Dell is the fact they only supply Intel-based
servers. The AMD Opteron systems I have implemented have not only cost less
than the Intel servers, but have kicked their a$$ up and down the
datacenter.
Plus, the management tools HP offers is more mature than IT Assistant is.
Both vendors have different roads for their management applications. HP SIM
continues to evolve and support multiple platforms (not just HP, but
SNMP-based systems, etc). While Dell partners with MS to plug into MOM.
that's nice and all, but not every shop out there is completely MS based.
Yes Dell has partnered with Altiris, but HP/Compaq has had that partnership
for over 7 years.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:48 PM
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: HP vs Dell servers
Sorry for the off topic question. We are currently an all HP shop. The
accountants in management now want us to justify why we don't switch to Dell
servers. I have looked around the web including Gartner but can't find any
good Dell vs HP comparison/benchmark testing. Does anyone have any good
material that discusses why HP over Dell servers or vise versa.
Thanks
Nathan
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