Thanks everyone for your input - I was hoping these would be a good solution! Anthony Rallo NT Systems Administrator III 773-399-7552 tony.rallo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx US Cellular Chicago Corporate Office -----Original Message----- From: Brian Madden [mailto:brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:13 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 brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------- Visit www.brianmadden.com for thin client white papers, books, product reviews, courseware, and training videos. -----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 ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor - RTOSoft TScale Complaints about applications response time - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! TScale 2.0 improves applications response time and increases terminal server capacity. Really get MORE from your existing servers! Free eval: http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=130 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor - RTOSoft TScale Complaints about applications response time - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! TScale 2.0 improves applications response time and increases terminal server capacity. Really get MORE from your existing servers! Free eval: http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=130 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor - RTOSoft TScale Complaints about applications response time - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! TScale 2.0 improves applications response time and increases terminal server capacity. Really get MORE from your existing servers! Free eval: http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=130 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm