On 1/15/11 6:39 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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.
Well, that cleared up where the SuperMicro name in this thread came from. I was confused before this post, but then I've never seen an SM case in person. Our campus security shop uses Silicon Mechanics for core network intrusion detection, including one with 10GB ethernet cards for the internet POP. My shop uses IBM Intel-based hardware because we were an IBM shop before linux. I really like my remote service adapters (RSA) and I'm O.K. with the newer integrated management module (IMM). Our service is generally good, though it depends on the individual service person. At the hot backup site, there's one person, and she is terrific. At the main site, we sometimes call at the end of business so we get the late-night and weekend tech, also a great service person. None of the techs is bad or stupid, but the guy who retired 18 months ago was stellar, so everyone else has a high bar for comparison. Allan _______________________________________________ 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/
