I've not used Nutanix, but had excellent results with Pivot3 for hyperconverged. We have about 1.5PB for CCTV archives. It works great and their support is among the best I have dealt with in 20+ years of IT.
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > HP do something well? Well bugger me… > > > > I feel a lot of love for Nutanix, if hyperconverged is your thing > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Maglinger, Paul > *Sent:* 22 February 2016 14:20 > *To:* '[email protected]' <[email protected]> > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Server Hardware > > > > +1 for HP Tech Support. I’ve had the least amount of problems with them > than ANY of my other OEMs. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Andrew Tallarita > *Sent:* Monday, February 22, 2016 8:03 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Server Hardware > > > > 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. 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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 > > > > > > > > >
