Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything.
We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start with. Loaded VMware and have been blown away with the performance, availability, power savings and features. A "server" to us now amounts to just a file within VMware that we can copy, backup or move wherever we please with a simple cut & paste. If VMware "sees" a server go down or a host within your cluster fail it will automatically fire up the affected servers on a different host. Really cool stuff. The chassis will hold 16 blades, but just the three blades we have now are probably 100x the power of the two 42U cabinets stuffed with servers they replaced! Best, Brad From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Parr Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <[email protected]> wrote: I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers. All will be running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? Buy a new Dell (or factory refurb) and virtualize everything.
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