[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: Rusty Yates <rusty27@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TheThin.net (Citrix)" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:34:57 -0600
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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