Brian / Joseph,<div><br></div><div>Where are you guys buying your SuperMicro servers from (if you don&#39;t mind saying)?</div><div><br></div><div>One thing people at my shop like about Dell / HP is that you can get 4 hour on-site service as an options. Do any of the SuperMicro vendors offer that?</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com">brian@snaptek.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I&#39;ll second Joseph&#39;s recommendation for SuperMicro servers.  I&#39;ve used quite a few of them and have had no major issues as well.  I&#39;ll also add that they are easy to find and won&#39;t necessarily tie you to any particular distributer, so you can shop around for support.<br>
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On 08/21/2010 12:14 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:<br>
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I&#39;ve been running more SuperMicro servers the past couple years.<br>
No major issues with several different Linux distros, multiple BSD&#39;s.<br>
Their IPMI firmware is particularly nice with the option for full remote console (including GUI if you have one installed) via a dedicated ethernet port.<br>
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Their Blade servers are nice for virtual systems, or the Twin2 (2RU/4servers) chassis.<br>
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They also have good high density storage servers with 36 hot-swap 3.5&quot; drives in 4RU and a new chassis due soon with 72 2.5&quot; hot-swap drives in 4RU.  The JBOD expanders (45 drives in 4RU) are good for NFS file servers and backup servers.<br>

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Michael March wrote:<br>
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For a few years I&#39;ve been running HP servers and while they have performed<br>
well (running CentOS and Ubuntu) I&#39;ve hated HP&#39;s support.<br>
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Now that its time to buy more gear I was wondering what everyone out there<br>
is running and happy with.<br>
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FWIW, I&#39;m running Xen on top of CentOS and Ubuntu on bare metal.<br>
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Any recommendations would be appreciated!<br>
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