I posted a similar question to lopsa-discuss a few months back - here's the link to the thread: https://lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-August/005872.html
Only the case of Oracle buying Sun could produce far fewer customers and far more profit :/ Justin On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Roy McMorran <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > 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. Historically we have > been a Sun shop, and although it's probably been 4+ years since I've bought > any SPARC-based hardware, I have purchased several of their Intel-based > servers over the past few years. Since Sun were swallowed up by Oracle > their prices have gone up (or should I say the discounts have evaporated) so > it's time to consider other vendors. > > Most recently we've used the Sun x4170 with the Nehalem processors, and I'm > probably looking for something similar (although perhaps with Westmere > now). I'll probably consider Dell and HP, but I will also look at 'white > box' vendors. I seem to remember hearing good things about Silicon > Mechanics. > > Must-haves are console-over-LAN (command-line console preferred over KVM), > redundant power supplies, mirrored system disks. Disk space requirements > are minimal. FWIW these are going to be web servers running Apache httpd > and/or Tomcat. We'll be running RHEL. > > Thanks for any advice. > -- > > Roy McMorran > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/
