TechMonkey Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 Has anyone got any recommendations for Virtual Server hardware suppliers? We have got a Dell partner coming in to look but we want to get ideas from others as well. We are leaning towards VMWare so that might make a difference. On the South coast, prefer if it was companies people have dealt with so know what they are like rather than just heard of. Ta
zag Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 (edited) We just bought a load of Dell R300's direct with 16gb of Ram and installed Hyper-V on them. It was all relatively easy to do in the end, just make sure you enabled virtualization in the bios settings. Edited June 13, 2011 by zag 1
RTFM Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 Millgate do a lot of HP stuff (as well as Dell etc etc), that's where we bought the hardware from for our virtual servers. @Millgate 1
glennda Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 Has anyone got any recommendations for Virtual Server hardware suppliers? We have got a Dell partner coming in to look but we want to get ideas from others as well. We are leaning towards VMWare so that might make a difference. On the South coast, prefer if it was companies people have dealt with so know what they are like rather than just heard of. Ta I'm all HP here for my virtual hosts 3 hosts with 64gb ram in each and also an MSA2012FC + enclosure. Not sure what part of the coast you are but i'm over towards horsham if you want to come and look at it. 1
jamesfed Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 We got both our HP DL165s from our usual HP supplier - there’s no need to go to anyone who specialises in Virtualisation unless you need support/setup services. 1
TechMonkey Posted June 13, 2011 Author Posted June 13, 2011 Cheers glennda, may well arrange a visit. We got both our HP DL165s from our usual HP supplier - there’s no need to go to anyone who specialises in Virtualisation unless you need support/setup services. I think we may well get some sort of support service but mainly just getting suppliers in to have a look & see what they recommend.
Duke Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Hehe, does virtual hardware even exist? I think you'd get better results with physical servers. Dell all the way here and very satisfied so far. Pair of (soon to be three I hope) the following: Dell R710 2x E5620 @ 2.4Ghz / 12MB 48GB RAM DDR3 Redundant PSUs iDRAC 6 Enterprise card (awesome) 4-port Gig NIC built-in Additional 4-port Gig NIC DVD drive 1GB SD card for booting ESXi Dell Rapid Rails (or whatever they're calling them now - I love these things) 3Yr NBD Warranty Under £3.5k Get the Dell customised ESXi ISO and you're up and running pretty quickly.
Duke Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 Just realised I hadn't read your post very well, sorry! I bought the above spec through CCS Media who are absolutely excellent folks and many others here will agree. You get very personal service from them but they're a big company - I think if you go to Dell Education now you will actually end up talking to CCS anyway as they've partnered with them. PM me if you want details for our account manager. I bought VMware/Veeam licences through WTL plc and Andy Paton came in to assist with our install. Very nice bloke and offered us excellent pricing. Cheers, Chris
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