My hate relationship with Dell

[ITGURU]

I've always preferred HP servers highly reliable odd hard drive failure over the years, thats all.

As for Dell, well frequent hard drive failures etc.

Just now removed a 'virtual disk' from the server using the openmanage administrator and then the server froze and went off-line.

For a second,thought i'd remove the OS array, but nope in the logs 'a runtime critical stop occured' and server rebooted.

Server is fully up to date with all drivers/firmware and service packs.

Marvellous! Pleased i didnt do that during working hours!

 

 

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[DrBeaker]

Dell - Love the Service Tag checker, drivers downloads, hate the warranty process.

 

HP - Love the iLO, hate the website for drivers etc.

[FragglePete]

Love both, but prefer Dell overall these days. Just find rebooting a Dell Server so much quicker than an HP. Reboot a HP Server and the whole 'Sea of Sensors' thing just seem to slow things down a lot. And HP also withhold certain firmware upgrades unless you have a maintenance agreement in place. Dell just have everything available.

 

Pete

[Roberto]

Love both, but prefer Dell overall these days. Just find rebooting a Dell Server so much quicker than an HP. Reboot a HP Server and the whole 'Sea of Sensors' thing just seem to slow things down a lot. And HP also withhold certain firmware upgrades unless you have a maintenance agreement in place. Dell just have everything available.

 

Pete

 

I think the speed of rebooting a server shouldn’t be a factor; how often should a server need to be restarted in the middle of the day these days? Totally agree on the warranty/firmware thing, very cheeky imo.

[ITGURU]

Love both, but prefer Dell overall these days. Just find rebooting a Dell Server so much quicker than an HP. Reboot a HP Server and the whole 'Sea of Sensors' thing just seem to slow things down a lot. And HP also withhold certain firmware upgrades unless you have a maintenance agreement in place. Dell just have everything available.

 

Pete

I find dell so much slower to reboot having to do an inventory every time it restarts. my Hps are quick.

 

Also re HP firmware not usually an issue as they come with 3 year warranty default so just a buy another server in year 3/4 and you can download the packages for the older servers aswell. it's not tied to each server registered.