m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
hw wrote:
Richard Zimmerman wrote:
DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially
if using CentOS 6.x)
What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell?
Yep, Dell's are good.
That´s good to hear.
And I do *not* want to buy from HP, because their
support is nothing like good.
Indeed, I wouldn´t buy HP new. They don´t even give you a price for
a new battery for an UPS but tell you to open a ticket to get a price
and expect you to pay for opening the ticket, and they have finally
managed to completely mess up their web site so that you can´t find
anything anymore.
And once you run out the warranty, they
don't want to even let you get things like firmware updates. Dell will.
Yes, this is a really big problem which makes me look out for other
manufacturers. I really like their hardware, but the manufacturer not
standing behind their product breaks the deal.
Another company that's ok is ThinkMate, though their support ain't great,
I think they're better than HP...oh, sorry, for a server, it'll be HPE
(the company divided a year or two ago).
I´ve never heared of ThinkMate.
If you get a Dell, and one of their PERC cards, you're getting a rebranded
LSI, sorry, Avago, um, who bought it last? Those are good and reliable,
not super expensive.
Those don´t work at all. I had to return two of them because none of them
worked in any of the boards I tried them, and the smart arrays I replaced
them with work in the same boards. Dell always had a reputation for making
incompatible hardware, and that experience proved it.
Maybe they work when you have Dell hardware, but I have none.
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