I'm an HP guy - I find the product to just work, and in my experiences HP support has been top notch.
For a virtual environment, with room to grow, I'd go for Gen 8's or the newer Gen 9's, Dual HexaCore minimum, 128GB RAM and 8 NIC's to allow for a management channel, iSCSI channel, VMotion and fail-over with LAGG. As far as the drives, if your using VMware don't bother, use a SAN and boot from an SD card. If you must go with internal drives, try to go with RAID'ed SSD's, they will perform exceptionally better in a virtual environment. Regards, Andrew Tallarita IT Support Specialist BNL Industries Inc,. [email protected] ph: 860.870.6222 cell: 860.849.1654 http://www.bnl.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information or otherwise be protected by law. This notice serves as a confidentiality marking for the purpose of any confidentiality or nondisclosure agreement. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or contain viruses. The sender, therefore, does not accept liability for any errors, omissions or damage caused by any virus transmitted by this error. Information contained herein is subject to the Code of Federal Regulations Chapter 22 International Traffic in Arms Regulations. This data may not be resold, diverted, transferred, transshipped, made available to a foreign national within the United States, or otherwise disposed of in any other country outside of its intended destination, either in original form or after being incorporated through an intermediate process into other data without the prior written approval of the US Department of State. On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Hank Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > My preference would be Lenovo or HP. > > > > I’d consider upping the memory to 128GB or even 256GB depending on what > the 5 machines will be doing. Your configuration will, on average give less > than 16 GB to each of 5 systems. > > > > RAID 5?? Really?? I would go for 15K drives and consider 6 drives, 1 > RAID-1 for the base OS and a RAID 10 for the VMs. How big the drives > should be dependent on the needs of the 4 VMs. > > > > Why 3 NICs? > > > > > > *Regards,* > Hank Arnold > > > > > *Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to > grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. > **Douglas > Adams* > > *Microsoft MVP - Consumer Security* > > My Blog: *http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/* > <http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/> > > Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Finnesey > *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2016 10:31 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Server Hardware > > > > It has been almost 7 years since I selected server hardware. > > > > What are peoples preference? I used to be a big HP fan mostly because I > used Compaq servers back in the day. I had a lot of clients use Dell > mostly because of the price but I found there support poor. How are Lenovo > Servers? I am a big ThinkPad fan. > > > > I am building a product where I need to deploy a large amount of servers > at remote locations. Each server will need to run 4 VMs Microsoft’s > recommended specs are: > > > > > > o 64-bit dual processor, six core (12 real cores), 2.50 gigahertz (GHz) > or higher > > o 64 gigabytes (GB) ECC RAM > > o Four 600 GB (or better) 10K RPM 128M Cache SAS 6Gbps disks, > configured in a RAID 5 configuration > > o Three 1 Gbps RJ45 high throughput network adapters > > > > Remote monitoring and management will be key. I will most likely be > deploying Operations Manager but I need to confirm if I can install > software on the Guest OS . > > > > Cheers > > Ryan > > > > > > >
