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I got this emailed to me last week and I just replied, I thought in the interests of openess I’d include my reply for all to see and correct me if necesary.

Hi Martin,

The IT guys are telling me we should look at the HP SL6500, what is it and how is it different from the DL range of servers?

Thanks

Bill

IT Architect

Companyx

My reply is below:

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your mail, it’s always great to get emails. Anyway, the SL is HP’s scalable server platform which is designed for high scale out environments. That is it’s a server that is designed to be deployed in volume, providing the maximum number of nodes ina given footprint but not quite going down the blade route which some customers have felt was not quite right for them. HP sometimes refer to it as their ExSO or Extreme Scale Out server.

They have two ranges the SL6000 and SL6500, both with different selling points and features, but with common features, in that you buy a tray upon which you can have two or more servers in that tray dependent on the configurations that you require, the number of disks, the u-size etc.

Are they a suitable alternative to DL servers? Briefly, yes but it’s a platform that is designed for volume deployments, and might not necessarily deliver the flexibility that you have with your existing rack servers.

IBM offer a similar product which is equally good and worth looking at, they refer to it as the IBM System x iDataPlex, both platforms have their benefits and are better in some areas than others, so which you choose to examine is going to depend on your business, your IT and where you are in the server space.

There’s also Dell’s cloud server solution, their C series rack servers which were designed with cloud in mind, they’re interesting rack servers and feature some unique and very cool features.

Hope that helps, if you need anything, do get back to me.

Regards

Martin MacLeod

Martin237@gmail.com

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