[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:32:58 -0700
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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