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Blade servers: over-sophistication

As a server admin I have found the blade offerings from the major vendors to be over-burdened with YET ANOTHER layer of "management" software, wonky proprietary firmware, and an overall "fussiness" of the units particularly during the inital setup. They perform no better than generic servers with generic load balancing. Who wants to pay for "management" software that duplicates management software already deployed in the enterprise, when all of the most common server management monitoring and deployment tasks typically make no use of this firmware and prorietary software. Who needs more gunk on the server when all the tools are already available via the skills of the administrator and built-in operating system tools. And who wants to spend hours and hours assembling the "backplanes" and power "modules" and "headless" management stuff when you can just image a box, boot the thing up and configure the box for your DR strategy the way we always have. I have no need for these overly complicated boxes that primarily support a marketing ploy desinged to lock people into expensive support deals with a single vendor. Ugh!

Posted by: cduers@...   Posted on: 02/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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