Blade systems can be awesome, but they add a TON of complexity over regular pizza-box servers. Unless you need the hardware density of blades, I'd much rather have a stack of HP DL360/DL380 or the Dell R740xd type servers (can't remember the 1U equivalent on the Dell side).
I've managed HP blade chassis (2 different generations) and Cisco UCS blades in a VMWare environment. I've really not cared for either types. The 1U/2U servers are much easier to work on, have easy expansion slots, places to mount disk bays, etc... Plus you can get a 2-generation old server for a couple hundred dollars on ebay and other vendors. At my $dayjob, we just put in a Dell R740xd2 stack of Hyper-V servers. The hardware is pretty awesome. We didn't even consider blades this time. Ryan On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:48 PM <af-requ...@af.afmug.com> wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:08:50 -0600 > From: <ch...@wbmfg.com> > To: <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] servers > Message-ID: <760C91BEE8344A249EB9F7291415D03B@MCCOWNTECH.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I need to put in some servers. I want to go durable. Last a long time. > Thinking blade servers. > Email, DNS etc, Perhaps in the future DHCP. Other things an ISP uses. > > Suggestions? I like the idea of hot swap etc. I realize VM and Hyper V, > all kinds of virtualization makes life easy. > But irrespective, I want bare metal reliability. > > Then perhaps NAS/SAN on top of it. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/private/af_af.afmug.com/attachments/20200925/4beed145/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > ------------------------------ > > End of AF Digest, Vol 28, Issue 447 > *********************************** >
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