[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:21:36 -0700
That is an excellent point- we have seen a general trend with blades that
the hard disk performance is generally slower than standard servers. The
drives are more akin to laptop drives and often lack raw performance and
cache. Also, most blade motherboards don't' seem to have RAM on the drive
controllers. This changing for the better, but something to be aware of...
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
www.thinclient.net
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rusty Yates
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:35 PM
To: TheThin.net (Citrix)
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
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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