Re: [Xen-users] blade servers

[Mike <mcbloom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tomoki,

I evaluated an ibm bladecenter 8878 with hs21 and hs20 blades in it from 
Oct of last year to february of this year.
If you are interested, talk to the specific vendors. Pay attention to 
how they answer your questions and listen to you to give you a sense of 
how good they are in supporting you.
We went through no end of headache getting the BCM5708S ethernet drivers 
for the chassis to work, getting the right power cables for our 
datacenter and I'll never order anything from them again. To give you an 
example, we were planning on using the 13 u chassis to save the space of 
14 u of dell 860's. But the ibm 8878 chassis has power cables that are 
massive 3awt and require 220v power. The savings of density for the 
chassis was lost in extranous copper cables.
If you contact a sales rep from dell, or hp or ibm, I'm sure they will 
be happy to chew your ear off about functionality, and ibm is a 
xensource partner.
They may even let you try one in your datacenter or in one of their labs 
if you are sweet enough in how you approach them.
Mike

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