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
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