Hello everybody,
before contacting the HP sales representative, I wanted to ask here about a setup we're planning. We are restricted to HP hardware only...
Our requirements are:
(A) VMs for internal development (mostly C++ and J2EE) and processing (Matlab, Java, spatial data). We would start with 10 machines and the system should be able to expand up to 20 live machines and hold another 20 turned off. The machines would have different setup but in average 2vCPU,80GB disk,3GB RAM
(B) Some of the VMs can become public servers in future but no "mission critical" apps.
(C) Since we buy new HW it's interesting for us to gain knowledge of blade system and be able to do assessment for internal and external clients on this virtualized all-in-one solution. However we are not yet fully convinced, we have space in rack and we are aware that we'll be bound to a special HW system for some years... But the idea of "converged infrastructure" seems convincing.
So far we were thinking on
- c3000 enclosure
- 4x BL495c G6 1P 6core
- 3TB Storage, unsure whether EVA4400, 2000sa G2, MSA2312sa? Or even SB40c inside the enclosure? The price matters but the storage should not be a bottleneck
Does somebody has experience with the ProLiants BL495c or BL460c, Insight software? Which type of shared storage do you use? Do your blades boot from storage? Is SATA OK?
Thanks for any suggestions
