Lots of good points in this thread.
Blades are so expensive they don't look cost effective until you're
weighing them against building an addition on the server room. You gain
management features though, and you're generally getting the "carrier
grade" server by default. I don't think anybody makes a crummy blade
system.
I have been tempted by the 12V Mini-boxes in the past, but never did
it. A quad-core box for a few hundred bucks could give you it's own
kind of resiliency because it's painless to keep spares.
Dell and HP are the go-to guys for new or used. Supermicro can be a
great value, but be careful because they do sell both high and low end
equipment. Make sure the Supermicro you buy is cheap because it's a
good deal and not because it's just cheap.
-Adam
On 9/25/2020 9:08 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.
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