[THIN] Re: Blade servers

 
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I have just setup the Dell PE1655MC blades.  While the chassis is a smaller
design than the Proliant/IBM/RLX, they are pretty good little boxes.  The
Remote Installation is quite nice.  Simple.  Uses PXE to grab and deploy
image.  However, what I have seen is that sometimes the configuration you
push out to the server doesn't work unless you reboot the server one more
time.  I have only seen this one time, however.  Also, the input field on
the web page (the Remote Installer is a web site) for the admin password
doesn't like anything except alpha-numeric characters (i.e. you cannot use
P@ssw0rd as the password).  I also like that fact that if you have one of
the blades as a F&P server, install the Remote Installer there, and the
servers will talk via pure GB speeds.  Completely isolated from the core
network.  This is similar to the Proliants.

Other than that, they are very nice.

Chris

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jason Benway
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:31 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Blade servers

Has anyone used the Dell Blade servers? I plan on ordering some next month
to move our citrix farm to XP.

jb 

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From: Brian Madden [mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:13 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Blade servers

Hi Anthony,

I used to work for Compaq, so my answer might be a bit biased :-)

However, I love blades and absolutely recommend them. Now, just so you know,
I'm the kind of guy who almost always recommends "many little servers"
instead of "a few big ones." I've been using the 1U servers in my Citrix
projects for years, so the blades were just a natural progression for me.

With the HP blades, you can get 1P, 2P, and 4P models, so you should be able
to make them into whatever you want. Plus, they work nice with Altiris, so
you can reimage them on the fly when they get screwed up. ..They take way
less power and have no cables. The chassis has meshed switches and power
with redundant paths to everything.

The one bad thing that people say about the HP blades is that they cannot
boot from a SAN. (like Dell/EMC)  While this is true, I don't think it
really matters. For my Citrix environments, I like a lot of little generic
servers. I usually have two drives, mirrored. Then I use the SAN for user
profiles and data. Works no problem.

Brian

Brian Madden
202.302.3657
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- -----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rallo, Tony
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:54 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Blade servers

Is anyone out there using the HP/Compaq blade servers with MetaFrame?  Do
you like them?  Would you recommend them?  Any issues?  Any feedback is
appreciated.

Thanks - 

Anthony Rallo
NT Systems Administrator III

US Cellular
Chicago Corporate Office
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