On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 08:56 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams > > > > > 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. > > +1 We purchases SM boxes for our virtualization effort they've been > > solid and the SM staff were responsive and informed [which is more that > > I can say for some other vendors]. > "SM" is ambiguous, especially in context here... Sun Microsystems, Super > Micro, Silicon Mechanic
It isn't ambiguous relative to where it occured in the thread, of from the quote. :) SM = Silicon Mechanics. Which are, I believe, mostly labelled SuperMicro boxes - but Silicon Mechanics has done all the tedious research, part matching, compatibility testing, etc... that sometimes seems to fall to the customer with SuperMicro. _______________________________________________ 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/
