Dell cs6100 vs r710 (possibly two)

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alex1002

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I have my choice right now. C6100 4 nodes single CPU vs 1*R710 or possibly 2*r710 dual Xeon quads. I am thinking on vmware or hyperv depending on my licenses. Which of these would you get for a production/test lab environment.

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I'm in the process of selling off my R710's for the C6100's. The power draw is the big selling point for me. Even with 2xL5520's my power draw on the R710 is about 220W at idle. Add to that the fact that C6100 takes up 2U vs 8U for the equivalent R710s. The two big things that the R710's got going for it is that it can take up a lot more RAM and you can toss in high performance CPUs in it. Also, with the R710's you also get more internal space for expansion cards and of course more HDD bays.

I'm planning to do iSCSI boot from SAN so internal drive bays are not important to me. And I need the reduced heat and power for my home lab. I'm sure I can reduce my 36U to 19U and significantly cut my power bill. I already pay too much for hydro at home.
 
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i might be interested now that the L5639 are $135 it makes a good sell point. DL320, 72gb, E5620, LSI 9260, 4 ssd was about 100 watt with 1 vm doing not much. so maybe those L5520 are not as good as 5600 series.

You are harnessing the server heat to grow hydroponic weed?
 
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I think it really depends on your application.
The C6100's are great, for cheap cloud servers. They have NO convenience, limitd in expansion, limited in RAM, no SATA/SAS 6gbps, sharp edges and not user friendly for entry level techs.
The R710's are great chassis as well. They are easy to work on, have 6gbps, lots of expansion slots, more 2.5" bays, more ram bays, actual hotswap power supplies etc.

It really depends on your application. If you're looking to bring up a bunch of nodes, fast, in a cloud environment where hardware is expandable, C6100. If you are going to drop this in for a customer, he may have to work on this himself, expects servicability on site, quickly, and full dell support ... R710.

My $0.02.
 
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swflmarco said:
I think it really depends on your application.
The C6100's are great, for cheap cloud servers. They have NO convenience, limitd in expansion, limited in RAM, no SATA/SAS 6gbps, sharp edges and not user friendly for entry level techs.
The R710's are great chassis as well. They are easy to work on, have 6gbps, lots of expansion slots, more 2.5" bays, more ram bays, actual hotswap power supplies etc.

It really depends on your application. If you're looking to bring up a bunch of nodes, fast, in a cloud environment where hardware is expandable, C6100. If you are going to drop this in for a customer, he may have to work on this himself, expects servicability on site, quickly, and full dell support ... R710.

My $0.02.
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Agree with everything you wrote here - except to note that the C6100 PSUs are redundant and hotswap too.
 
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