Go with a blade server with support. We have a Dell blade server and it has been rock solid, we had an issue with one of the management cards (Has 2 for redundancy) but Dell sent us a new one overnight (They would have even sent a tech out to replace it, but we just used our own) if your business depends on it spend the money and get the support. We also have stand alone servers that do other things as well (Other POP sites), but our primary stuff resides on the blade server. The server was purchased through an acquisition we did and it came with Windows Datacenter on it already, I would probably not use it if we were rebuilding the system from scratch, would probably use VMWare but it has been rock solid.
Erich Kaiser North Central Tower er...@northcentraltower.com Office: 815-570-3101 On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:09 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > 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. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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