On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 14, 2011 9:12 AM, "Roy McMorran" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apologies in advance if I'm covering old ground here. I'd swear I'd seen >> a similar discussion recently but I haven't been able to find it in the >> archives. Anyway... >> >> I'm seeking recommendations for x86 based servers. > > At my previous job we used SuperMicro machines pretty extensively, and were > quite satisfied with their performance. They turned out as reliable as the > IBM or Dell equipment that we had used, at much lower cost. > > We didn't lean heavily on their management over LAN features, preferring > serial consoles, but my recollection is that they had solid IPMI support and > a viable set of KVM/CLI integration options. > > They can hit all the other requested features.
We usually try to get refurbished HPs, mostly DL385s. Recently we got a stack of Sunfire X4150s for incredible cheap and I'm very impressed with them. I really prefer the Sun's, but when I last priced out new they're way too expensive. Next time I have to buy new, I'm going to seriously look at the SuperMicro, because I see a lot of people using them now. Redundancy and some kind of LOM (which works, which our old Dell RACs don't really) is quite important to us. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
