Posted by: Forbidden1nes
I'll be happy with the upgrade as long as they're not Dell Servers.
They crash more times, than the world has played any Halo matchmaking game.
Actually Forbidden1nes, IMHO the new Dell M610's/710's, 905/910's blades we got 6-12 months ago work better than the IBM Blades we have running our enterprise applications, from the aspects of High Availability, integration of our blade chassis with the network switches, our SAN, processing power etc. Also from working on both brands, Dell are a lot easier to configure at the BIOS, SAN setup level (anything outside of configuring the OS), and yes we are talking systems that are the same, pound for pound.
But then again a lot of 'environment' variables can impact the perception of how good a server is and how it performs. Just my .02, Dell's better, hands down with no trade offs.
PS. This is a corporation with 27,000+ users, 1000+ servers, TB's of data are common for our file shares, etc. So this is not a small scale operation.