[THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:15:26 -0500
Experience, lots of experience with all 3 vendors. Dell firmware is horrid,
Dell manageability (OpenManage compared to Insight or Director is horrid).
My preference for blades is IBM personally but HP does work as well. If you
take a side by side look at each vendor, Dell will always comes in a distant
3rd. obviously this is just my opinion but after working with other
companies that have or have had Dell's and have switched, I'll stick with my
opinion and most of my customers are happier for dealing with another
company all together. The savings are nice up front (which is why most
companies go with Dell initially) but the long term goes to the other two.
Jeff Pitsch
On 1/21/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Are you referring to Dell BLADES or all Dell servers? I'd put the
> stability of my regular Dell servers up against HP and IBM anyday. I also
> have no support issues, and the city I am in qualifies for 4 hour parts with
> a typical turn time of 2 hours, so no complaints there. That's about the
> only time I rely on support.
>
> I've never used anyones blade solutions, but I'll yield to those who have
> and probably say that I'd go HP or IBM if we wanted blades. I know the Dell
> blades prior to the 1855's really paled in comparison, but I know absolutely
> squat about the 1855's.
>
> I can't speak for manageability since I don't even use the Dell OpenManage
> stuff much. The OpenManage product has recently become something you can
> actually centrally manage with v4.4 and 4.5. Prior to that, you had to go
> to every server individual to manage them, which obviously .. sucks. And
> I've never messed with the deployment stuff, because I'm not dealing with
> the quantity of server deployment and reimaging to make it worth my time (at
> least not yet)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Jeff Pitsch
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:14 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: OT: Dell PE 1855 Blade Servers
>
> I can tell you that in general everything about Dell servers pales in
> comparison to HP and IBM. Stability, manageability, support, etc are very,
> very bad compared to the HP and IBM. If there was any way I could convince
> you to stay away from Dell I surely would.
>
> Jeff Pitsch
>
>
> 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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