Lots for a LORG. An engineer describes a process, QA validates it, a tech. or jr. tech. follows the bouncing balls.
The last datacenter I ran, I certainly wasn't the one that installed all the servers. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP E5500 Appliance I took a look and my general take is you'll get all the disadvantages of a blade platform, but none of the advantages. Someone mentioned $55K. For basically half that you could have 2 high-end DL380 G7 pizza boxes and 2 copies of Win Server Datacenter. Run hypervisor du jour, etc... I guess the market for this might be the med-large biz with little to no in-house talent and someone visiting monthly to do patching? Seems over-kill for a small biz. ...questioning how many largish businesses operate this way. Is it really a good thing if someone with no talent is clicking through a wizard to install an exchange DAG cluster? Neat idea, but what is the value? ~JasonG > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:19 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: HP E5500 Appliance > > Take a little time and go to http://hp.feedroom.com. Search on E5000. It > will come back with videos that are 10 minutes or shorter. Start the > introduction, and it will cycle through them all with about 30 seconds > between them. > > > > Basically an HP/MS co-developed and supported appliance that's a 2-blade > unit with 16 internal LFF 6G SAS drives. Each blade is has Server 2008 R2 > Enterprise and Exchange 2010 SP1 installed with a 2-copy DAG already > configured between the two blades. Comes in base 16 TB or 32 TB models. > You can add expansion up to a total of 128 TB. 4-hour 24x7x365 hardware, > OS and Exchange support included for 3 years. > > > > For us that just leaves me with setting up a 2 server CAS/HT array in each > site. > > > > > > From: KevinM [mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 6:21 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: HP E5500 Appliance > > > > Why are you looking at them? IE- what about them looks appealing? > > > > From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:00 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: HP E5500 Appliance > > > > Is anyone using the HP E5500 Exchange 2010 appliances? We're looking at a > pair of them for our 2010 upgrade, and I'm very interested in hearing any > feedback. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Philip Hershey > > Carpinteria, CA 93013-2062 > > > > > > --- > 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 exchangelist > > --- > 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 exchangelist > > --- > 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 exchangelist --- 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 exchangelist --- 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 exchangelist
