“ But the new company now recommends Dell, they want to replace all our servers. ”
Disagree, at least without something to back that up. There *is* something to be said for having a homogenous family of servers, as far as support and ‘institutional knowledge’ goes. For some more complex server applications, you might get better support from a SAN vendor, or a virtualization vendor, if they have already certified and worked with a particular vendor and their server equipment. That said, I’d ask for an explanation of why your SuperMicro servers are ‘junk’ … can they show statistics and or detailed issues on the components in the SuperMicro that are not present for their chosen Dell ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SuperMicro There are many companies that do so, most of them are out west, but if you look up particular parts, several companies sell them and you can get them overnight. AS for re-selling, check out Craigslist or others. We just had a company overlook our entire computer system here at the Museum and one of the main things they said was that SuperMicro was not the way to go. They called those servers junk. I have 7 SuperMicro servers and I love them. I go back to when Dell became a joke because of their failing support. I keep extra SuperMicro servers around to use to replace servers that may die. But the new company now recommends Dell, they want to replace all our servers. Anyone else agree or disagree? From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SuperMicro Isn’t there someone on this list that resells SuperMicro equipment? Would you mind contacting me off list? Thanks Webster [email protected] ~ 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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
