[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: "Euan Cooper" <euan.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:08:16 +1300
Which might not be too big an issue on a load balanced citrix farm - I'm
seriously considering doing the same thing on our farm
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Joe Shonk
Sent: 25 January 2006 6:33 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
The IBM HS20 and HP BL35p (SAS) seems to be lacking in the Raid Controller
cache arena as well... Enough so, that one customer is considering abandoning
RAID 1 in favor of a RAID 0 configuration... Initial benchmarks are showing a
HUGE improvement in Read, Writes, and overall performance. But of course, you
loose that redundancy.
Joe
On 1/24/06, Rusty Yates < rusty27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just heard back from our outside sales from Dell and was told that one customer
did a major test with Citrix and the Dell 1855 Blades and found that Citrix ran
30% slower due to no enough cache on the Raid Controller in their blades.
Anyway the outside sales guy is recommending us to go with the 1850 1u servers
instead which basically defects the purpose of going to blades (ex: density,
wiring, power, etc......). Never thought I would actually hear a sales rep
recommend against their own product.
Anyway, just thought I would pass this along.
Rusty
On 1/24/06, Rusty Yates < rusty27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I appreciate all the information from everyone. From all the research that
we've done we are hoping to go with IBM Servers and Blades but if the pricing
isn't close we will most likely choose Dell. We understand IBM is going to
have better management, denisty, etc and if money wasn't a factor IBM would be
our #1 choice. But on the flip side with Dell, we are a Dell shop, the Dell
pricing is better, and Dell's support has been great.
I will say I'm very disappointed that no one brought up Hitachi's Blade Servers
or even Silicon Blade Servers. :-)
Thanks again for all the information and laughs!
Rusty
On 1/21/06, Rusty Yates < rusty27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would like to know if anyone on this board has had any good or bad experience
with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Servers. We are currently taking a hard
look at using the Dell Blades for our Citrix Servers.
Thanks in advance!
Rusty
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