Erich, What model of chassis and blades do you use? On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 8:20 AM Erich Kaiser <er...@northcentraltower.com> wrote:
> 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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