What brand of servers does your company use

Haswell

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

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NinjaBoy

IBM -> HP -> Dell -> HP -> now Acer (the same make and model used by the 2012 Olympics).

010101

Only HP here. Might try out Cisco in the future.
Dell is junk from what I've seen. I've never seen so many issues with servers.

Haswell

010101 wrote: »

Only HP here. Might try out Cisco in the future.
Dell is junk from what I've seen. I've never seen so many issues with servers.

Cisco UCS B Series blades are amazing. That's way my old company is switching from HP. Plus, the Cisco blade servers are cheaper too.

DevilWAH

010101 wrote: »

Only HP here. Might try out Cisco in the future.
Dell is junk from what I've seen. I've never seen so many issues with servers.

see from my experience I would say the opposite is true

mind you I have never liked HP always felt cheap to me. Sure there great, but only time i used them I had so many issues trying to get ESXi running.

DevilWAH

Haswell wrote: »

Cisco UCS B Series blades are amazing. That's way my old company is switching from HP. Plus, the Cisco blade servers are cheaper too.

Compared to other blade systems how do CISCO compare? price/performance?

we have two projects, one to swap out our VMware hosts for new hard ware, and the other for some high performance hardware for genetics data analysis and both we are thinking of moving to blades for.

I would love to look at CISCO but I only have experience with there network kit.

timrvt

always have been dells and sunfire boxes ..the sun solaris boxes are almost all gone...a few sun vm hosts..the dells will be phased over to vms ..and now all the new hw are supermicros

Haswell

DevilWAH wrote: »

Compared to other blade systems how do CISCO compare? price/performance?

we have two projects, one to swap out our VMware hosts for new hard ware, and the other for some high performance hardware for genetics data analysis and both we are thinking of moving to blades for.

I would love to look at CISCO but I only have experience with there network kit.

The Cisco blades are cheeper then the HP ones mainly because of the Virtual Connects. With the HP c7000 blade chassis you need to buy Virtual Connects for each chassis. With Cisco you just need to buy the Virtual Connects for one chassis, then you connect the other chassis to the one with the virtual connects (up to 13, with the 14th being the one with virtual connects).

Also, most people implement Cisco UCS with server profiles. Which allow you to boot from a SAN. That way if anything happens to a blade you can quickly switch the profile to a free blade. Then preform the upgrade on the original blade.

That's just the server side, on the networking side most people use Cisco's Nexus 7 switches with the UCS servers. Which results in amazing performance.

Zartanasaurus

DevilWAH wrote: »

Compared to other blade systems how do CISCO compare? price/performance?

I've used both HP and Cisco blade systems and I wouldn't even look at an HP system right now unless they've completely reworked their management interface.

QHalo

DevilWAH wrote: »

Compared to other blade systems how do CISCO compare? price/performance?

we have two projects, one to swap out our VMware hosts for new hard ware, and the other for some high performance hardware for genetics data analysis and both we are thinking of moving to blades for.

I would love to look at CISCO but I only have experience with there network kit.

Cisco B200 M3's with 786GB Fusion IO cards in them.

gorebrush

I work in a DC, we've got allllllll sorts of stuff!

Anything from bleeding edge HP/Dell stuff, to some P2's running NT4 (I kid ye not!)

Haswell

phoeneous wrote: »

Must be nice to afford that bling

Yeah especially since I got laid off from that job because of budget cuts

chmod

HP proliant, they are great.

jibbajabba

Should have the option to vote multiple selections - we also don't just have one vendor - we got HP, Supermicro, Cisco, Dell, IBM and some randoms here and there not worth mentioning ...

yuddhidhtir

Haswell wrote: »

Yeah especially since I got laid off from that job because of budget cuts

LOL! that was funny:D. We use IBM x series servers.

xenodamus

IBM xSeries and blades. As a hospital, we have some random hardware that vendors impose upon us as well, though. That stuff is mostly HP.

Our VP/CIO is an ex-IBM employee and has been running our department since the late 90's. We're working to keep his stock prices up.

QHalo

One of my last organizations was head by an Ex-IBM'er. All our hardware suddenly went from Compaq/HP to IBM. The xSeries stuff is overpriced for such commodity hardware.

Jayjett90

Dell to IBM, let the virtualization project begin

it_consultant

My 9-5 is Dell, all my side jobs are HP. I prefer HP though some of the 620,720,820 Dell's are closing the gap.

TechJunky

HP DL-380 Series or HP Blade technology.