On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Aaron Toponce <[email protected]>wrote:
> Steve Meyers wrote: > > What server hardware vendors do you use? What experience have you had > > with them? > > At work, we deal with a few vendors- Sun, HP and Dell mainly. > > HP by-and-far is the better vendor in terms of hardware quality and most > bang for your buck. What really makes HP stand head and shoulders above > the rest is their iLO interface. There just isn't another hardware > vendor out there that competes well in that area. Their SAS drives are > top quality, and their blades are solid. > > The Dell equipment is sub-par at best. The chassis for the PowerEdge > servers we have is cheap and thin. Their DRAC interface SUCKS. They > might be cheap, but you get what you pay for, and it really is cheap stuff. > > Our Sun stuff is okay, but I wouldn't put much faith in their hardware > division if the Oracle deal goes through. Only time will tell. I know > Sun fanboys argue that no hardware is superior to Sparc, but I don't see > the quality in the hardware we have. Our HP stuff is better, if you ask me. > > -- > . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . > . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O > O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > I have to agree with Steve. I came from running HP for 7 years, to running HP and SUN for 3 years, and have ran Dell and IBM, for the last year, and have not been the least bit impressed with Dell hardware. I don't really care for the ILO, and would rather use IPMI2 the the newer SUN machines use. I am curious what Oracle is going to do with the SUN hardware line. We did have a few HP reps come by and we are going to demo a HP c7000 blade chassis. It looks pretty killer, and the VirtualConnect looks very promising. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
