hw wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us 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>
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.
No biggie. As I said, they're another reseller of Supermicro h/w. Good prices, so-so support.
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....
mark