What brand of servers does your company use

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My old company uses HP blades, but their switching over Cisco UCS blades.

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TechGuy215

Only a few physical servers left in our DC, but they are all HP Proliant's. Had some Dell PowerEdge's and Sunfire's back in the day, luckily they've all been decommissioned and I don't miss them one bit.

Death Dream

Dell to IBM to now HP

emerald_octane

Dell, just because we get great discounts.

If I had to chose again i'd be HP or Cisco.

About7Narwhal

IBM.. and there is always something wrong with them. But we also have a handfull of Proliant and PowerEdge boxes sitting around.

Dieg0M

Dell to HP

tstrip007

HP Proliant

cruwl

Dell and Cisco - leaning more toward Cisco as of lately.

4_lom

We're using Dell and HP. We still have some 2950's in our environment...

About7Narwhal

In the back corner of our DC there is a P4 Desktop running Server 2k. Old CRT and everything. I am afraid to ask what it does.. as the answer might put me into shock.

kriscamaro68

About7Narwhal wrote: »

In the back corner of our DC there is a P4 Desktop running Server 2k. Old CRT and everything. I am afraid to ask what it does.. as the answer might put me into shock.

Its your Primary DC.

Essendon

HP blades mostly with a few physical HP G8's doing backups duties. Incidentally, every company I've worked for has had HP servers.

gabypr

In my organization we have been using IBM servers for a long time. In the near future we are going to continue using IBM although we are going to acquire a few HP Proliants 380p Gen 8.

iBrokeIT

Mostly Cisco and a few HP

Mishra

All the HP/IBM/Cisco guys show up to talk about their hardware. The dell guys just vote and don't care. lol

AwesomeGarrett

Must be nice, one of our server is so crappy and mostly over utilized that every couple of week one of us in the NOC has to walk to the colo a block away and reboot it.

Snow.bros

HP is our preferred partner so all our server's are HP.

Zartanasaurus

Mishra wrote: »

All the HP/IBM/Cisco guys show up to talk about their hardware. The dell guys just vote and don't care. lol

I voted Cisco without comment.

I was kind of surprised to see Dell lapping the field here. It was my understanding that HP had the lion's share of installed servers.

DevilWAH

I think server side for generaly purpose server (DC, DNS in small to medium size company) the physical hardware is less important than the OS and software.

With out checking I bet few people could tell if the mmc they had open for AD management was to a HP/IBM or Dell backend server.

For DB and Specifice tasks where the hardware is a bottle neck then it pays to know your hardware, otherwise a physical server is a physical server. in much the same way we see the big guns pulling out of the desktop market and leaving it to the factories out in china that can push out decent kit at half the price.

The dells we have a robust, don't often fail and reasonable cost and support. I don't have any thing agisnt moving to another manufacturer, just have no reason to. Take the case we are upgrading our 8 Esxi hosts soon, they are currently Dell R710 maxed out with memory, but starting to show there age with 100 or so guests. What benefits would we get moving to IBM/CISCO/HP. We don't have a endless budget so its got to the higher end of mid range kit we go for.

may be if i went CISCO for the same cost i could have 5% more guests running, but I have to weigh that up against the need for two support contracts. May be i am wrong and coming from a network background where hardware choice also means feature set choice. I don't see the same in server hardware. its the OS that defines the features and management choices.

on a side note I would love to try CISCO servers out, worked on dell, IBM and HP rack mounted, and Dell blades. so be interested to see how a network company like CISCO has attempted to get in to the server market.

SteveLord

Our state is deep in bed with HP for servers, desktops and laptops. Servers seem to perform well, but I would go my own route for the others if I could get away with it.

lsud00d

kriscamaro68 wrote: »

Its your Primary DC.

Root CA

Master Of Puppets

When it comes to servers, everything is HP here.

tier~

All Dell here both servers and desktops.

MrAgent

We've got a lot of everything. Everything being HP, Dell, Cisco, and Supermicro.

Santa_

Surprised no one mentioned, Lenovo, granted some said IBM.

We have a few Super Micro's and the rest are Lenovo Thinkserver.

Hypntick

Mix of Lenovo and Cisco for ourselves, when it comes to the clients we manage, anything and everything.

joehalford01

About7Narwhal wrote: »

In the back corner of our DC there is a P4 Desktop running Server 2k. Old CRT and everything. I am afraid to ask what it does.. as the answer might put me into shock.

I'm sure it's just an old proxy server....nothing to worry about...

W Stewart

A lot of Dell. We use Dell servers at my company but we've got some new clients that want hp servers instead.

kj0

Use Dell Servers and Workstations. MIssion Critical response. It's great. Our students have HP Laptops - Not really impressed with the service with them.

Priston

Mostly Cisco B series UCS. If they continue obtaining more them at the same pace they have been we're going to run out of power before we know it.

Verities

Dell R900, 2950, HP DL580, HP c7000.