Anonymous - Get real and get your facts straight

Oh look an IBM salesgrunt! Either that or a user who is so far up IBM's a*se everything looks blue.

Well let me tell you mr IBM salesperson. I work for quite a large company who until recently was predominantly IBM. That is until we came to refresh time and started looking around to see what else there was.

I dont have time to address all of you "facts" but lets take a few and see how wrong you are.

"2) you want 16 blades for max density- sacrifice redundancy as each blade has only one connection for power and I/O to the midplane"

WRONG! You see what you fail to understand is that the midplane on a HP is passive which means there is nothing on it to go wrong, all of the components are in seperate modules easily accesible out the back. What happens if an IBM midplane has some of its components short out, oh sure there is redundancy but like when it happened to us you end up having to have the whole midplane replaced which means taking everything in the chassis down thats before you loose half of your I/O to every single blade in the chassis!

"6) Virtual Connect - proprietary, and 3 times the cost of IBM's Open Fabric manager"

You see this is the one that makes me think you are an IBM employee. Virtual Connect is an end point on the network, that means any networking device sees it as a NIC or HBA, the only thing proprietary about it is the HP badge on the front and the fact that IBM didnt think of it!

"7) Noise level - OUCH for HP, 68-72 decibels, IBM as low as 60."

Whats wrong you running a yoga class in your DC or something? Of all the complaints about kit this has to be the lamest ever!

"9) HP blades have thermal issues with memory dimms (run at 98degrees)

10) Oh and what idiot installs a hard drive on top of a heat sink (surely you gest !!!!)"

Ah the old power and thermals. Well all I can say is that our DC runs about 2 degrees cooler now that we chucked that BladeCentre rubbish out, oh and HP actually give us real time data on our power and thermal unlike IBM's guesstimate, which is quite useful when I have to talk to our facilities people!

"12) IBM did not announce the higest Nehalem speed bin and NEITHER DID HP"

Sorry just ordered it!

"13) Latest rumour that HP is coming out with yet another chassis design within the next 12 months once again adhereing to their RIP AND REPLACE strategy"

Ive seen the NDA, I would be very very worried if I was IBM!

Oh congratulations by the way on cutting and pasting IBM sales FUD, they really are masters of the brown stuff arn't they. If only they put as much effort into their products they wouldnt have to slag everyone elses off!