[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

Before the takeover by Oracle Sun was cheaper than Dell, not at first sight
but if you checked everything part-by-part than Sun was at the end cheaper.
With Dell the biggest problem is their website and the way they present
prices. You start with a enormous offer of 512,- euro for a server and end
with a 9000,- euro server.

Always take the highest series ( > R610), they offer more than the lower
series. If want the same amount of hardware like HD's and processors in the
low-series server you pay approx. 30% more.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Kesten [mailto:jan at dafuer.de]
Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 12:42
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for
Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

Hi,

> We use DELL, and Sun^H^H^HOracle kit ... I love the Sun kit for it's
> ILOM (able to access the bios remotely, via console and browser) and

indeed the ilom (and all the other (x)lom from sun) are really great and
unique. But for completeness nowadays dell (and others too with
different) offers the (i)DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) for out of
band management, and they work like a charm if you got used to them (but
that also counts for the (x)lom) - but you have to order them as addition to
your server, they are not included by default. They also offer to enter the
bios in their console redirection and basic monitoring (with email alarms).

> If you do go DELL remember to look at the website (if your eyes don't
> hurt) and get a quote, then call them up, they work on commission and
> are aggressive with the prices.

At dell you *must* call for price - ordering without a qoute is waste of
money ;-)

If I have a choice I would go with Sun - but if price matters dell is/was a
good alternative (in fact the first storage server build like this with
solaris was chosen by price, and dell clearly won over all other
"professional" vendors).

Cheers,
Jan

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