[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: Rusty Yates <rusty27@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:23:56 -0600
This brings up another question. Does RAID 0 so better performance than
just a stand alone HD configuration?
Rusty
On 1/24/06, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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