m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
hw wrote:
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)
<snip>
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.
But wait, it's worse: the replacement *parts* have a different part number
than the original. I had to replace a PSU on a blade enclosure, and had to
get HP, or maybe a reseller, I forget, to tell me what the correct part
number for the replacement part was, and, IIRC, there were both 6-digit
number, or maybe 12....
<snip>
Well, I ended up buying a new UPS because a replacement battery was
unavailable. Now I wouldn´t buy anything but APC for an UPS anymore.
[...]
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.
Oh, ok, I was assuming you did. No, if you're not buying Dell hardware,
with their own PERC cards, get an LSI/AVAGO/whoever. They *do* work on
anything, and MegaRAID software is not hard to find. Note: if you go that
route, I have a script I found only that makes basic monitoring *much*
easier than the hostile MegaRAID interface....
I wouldn´t say I don´t buy Dell, only that I haven´t yet. HP is much
easier to get (perhaps everyone is throwing them out because they can´t
get firmware updates anymore).
There´s also something to HP hardware --- for example, what´s Dells
equivalent to an ML350? I couldn´t find anything like it from Dell.
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