We kept everything Dell, so we're using the Dell MD3000i with about 7TB of storage. The benefits of keeping everything Dell or HP etc outweighed the cost savings in our situation.
Dell has always taken real good care of us. I've called Dell at 4pm with an issue and they had a replacement part in my hands by 8am the next morning...no charge. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jon Auer Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:33 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
