Doing pretty much the same thing. I have 3 620's that boot ESXi from dual internal mirror's SD cards.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dell servers On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com <jesse-r...@wi.rr.com> wrote: > I'm more familiar with HPs line of servers. But in this case, I need > a Dell server that compares well with the DL360 line from HP. Would > that be the Dell 610/620 line? I need a server for ESXi, nothing crazy > fancy, but > spec'd with 2 6-core procs at 80GB memory. Is the 610/620 line a good > option and equivent to the HP DL360 line? > > Also, considering NOT having internal disks and instead running ESXi > off USB stick or something else. Any suggestions/comments on that? > > Thanks > J I recently set up a triplet of R620s, using the Dell-supplied ESXi on a stick, and no internal drives. Each machine has 64gb RAM. Works well, but I don't know if they're a direct compare to the DL360 - I haven't played with anything HP for many years (aside from their Lefthand SANs - they rock). This was for a VMware Essentials Plus package, and I'm very happy with the machines. I ordered them with a minimum of 6 NICs each, and they came with 4 NICs on the motherboard and a 4port NIC as an addin, so I dedicated one set on each machine to the VMs and one set to the SAN. I can't remember what the max RAM is on an R620, but I suppose it would be more than the 64gb I'm using - the VMware package we bought specifies the max RAM allowed per machine, so that's what we got. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
