That's pretty cool. What are you using for shared storage? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Brad Belton <b...@belwave.com> wrote: > 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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 <li...@manageisp.com> 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. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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