Le 2013-06-27 10:39, Reindl Harald a écrit :

Am 27.06.2013 16:26, schrieb Guy Boisvert:

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As for Supermicro, i was using Tyan before but their support (and associated website) was very bad (last time i used it was 2 years ago, maybe it's better now, dunno...). If we exclude Supermicro and Tyan, i'm not sure were i could go for "OEM" servers. I don't like HP, Dell, etc.: Expensive and they use a lot of "for them only" parts + they try to sell packages that are often not what i want

your choice - you get what you pay for

these days someone buys a HP Pro Liant with a vSphere license or install VMware ESXi in the free version and install his operating systems on top of it which is a scaleable solution and can be upgraded to a cluster with HA, SAN storages whatever without ever re-install the guest systems

but you get what you paied for...............

I kicked out VMWare and their "Windoze" tools i hate (i know that now they offer a VM with command line tools). I'm not saying VMWare is not good though, it's just i hate their tools. On top of that, it can cost a lot of money. But they have the features!

I moved to KVM and i'd say i like it a lot. I'm planning to test OpenStack.

For storage, big names (3Par, Netapp, etc) offer nice things but it is rather expensive. I'm testing iSCSI servers with DRDB, STONITH, etc.

Idea is to use commodity hardware and standard software. Nothing new and i'm not against commercial solution with support and all. It's just we try to offer affordable and open solutions.