Server Replacement - who to quote?

[CyBeRkId2002]

Hi all,

 

Looking for a Server / SAN replacement and have had one quote (which I would say we are very happy with!) but in the interest of better reviewing the market I need to obtain two more. Can anyone recommend suppliers who can provide a fully managed server / san / hyperconverged solution including migration of VMs (VMWare -> Hyper-V) as part of the project scope.

 

Thanks in advance.

Michael

[RobD]

I can recommend MSP Lab

 

Adam is really good at what he does.

[Neil83]

We've had excellent service and support with Stone - https://www.stonegroup.co.uk/

[robyholmes]

@johnlevis from VeryPC should give you a good price.

[BKGarry]

Design and Management Systems if you are down south are very very good

[Rob_D]

+1 for Design Management Systems. We use them for a lot and they've always been good.

 

We've also had good experiences with Trams and Softcat.

[johnlevis]

Thanks @robyholmes, always good to get a recommendation.

@CyBeRkId2002, Hi Michael, we've been quoting a lot of Hyperconverged solutions recently but if you prefer a Server/SAN setup we can accommodate that as well.

 

If you want to get in touch we can arrange a chat/Teams call

 

John

 

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[TD]John Levis | Software and Solutions Specialist

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very-pc.co.uk

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[jawebber]

Would absolutely recommend the HP Nimble for your SAN hardware, have had ours for 3 years and it's excellent.

[Tefters]

Dell direct do some fantastic pricing.

 

Replaced a 4x server + 2x san VMware cluster + 4 standalone remote desktop servets with a 2 node S2D hyper-v setup which is on NVMe for boot and SSD for storage for around £30k.

 

In terms of storage capacity I spec'd for 3/4 our current used capacity and then migrated VM's myself 1 by 1 allowing for dedup every 5th VM and ended up using only 50% capacity after dedup had taken affect.

 

If you don't want to migrate VM's yourself which is p×ss easy using a number of free tools then they can also do the work for you.

 

Our setup also included Mon-Fri support with next day onsite and 5 year warranty.

 

Would highly recommend Dell and S2D with dedup, will save a lot of money moving forward on footprint cost and maintenance.

Having been a VMware fanboy for 10+ years, S2D has really come a long way in server 2019 and I would not go back to San again unless it was huge enterprise scale installs.

Edited May 18, 2021 by Tefters

[Andycat]

Would absolutely recommend the HP Nimble for your SAN hardware, have had ours for 3 years and it's excellent.

 

We've had ours 5 years, but already EndofSupport making the connected UCS and expansion shelf unusable too, without buying another Nimble.

 

We won't be doing that.

[The_Techie]

Would recommend Tom Drew at Medhurst https://medhurst-it.com/ getting ours done this summer