Mallesons Stephen Jaques www.mallesons.com Confidential communication we have 42 of the little buggers dell are now giving us free intel nics with our 1750 and 2650 as they = admitted that teaming is a problem on the broadcom gigaxtreme cards and = the y cant write a reliable driver this doesnt help us on the blades so we havent teamed them -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lee, David (CITY TREASURY) Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 8:04 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Blade Servers We have two fully populated 1655MC blade chassis running Citrix. The imaging facility doesn't really work, but other than that they are = generally fine. No problems with the teaming on the Broadcom NICs, but it did = take three Dell engineers to configure this in the first instance! The integrated switches are actually stripped down Cisco, but our network = guy tells me most of the IOS features are missing. -----Original Message----- From: Rowlandson, John [mailto:John.Rowlandson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 April 2004 00:13 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Blade Servers Mallesons Stephen Jaques www.mallesons.com Confidential communication a couple more things on the dells our networks guy HATE the cheap no name brand switch on the back of the = =3D chassis broadcoms will not team for ALB, dell have admitted this now other than that, i'd get them again to replace my older hp lc2000r's -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rowlandson, John Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 9:05 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Blade Servers Mallesons Stephen Jaques www.mallesons.com Confidential communication WE HAVE 40 dell 1655mc blades, 6 servers to every 3U they work ok except for the broadcom nics 20 of these are metaframe boxes, dual p4 1.2ghz 2gb ram, 73gb scsi =3D3D drives with raid -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Case Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 2:07 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Blade Servers Has anybody had any experience with using Citrix or Terminal Services = =3D =3D3D farms on Blade Servers? If so, IDE or SCSI drives? Brands? =3D3D20 Thanks! John Case Technology Coordinator Ohio Hi-Point Career Center =3D3D20 ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. 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