[Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations

[Carlos Lopez]

Thanks Michal. I didn't know that bad support from SuperMicro.
Then I will continue with HP. Do you think the HP DL360 Gen10 are suitable for IDS deployment?

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Regards,
C. L. Martinez

On 01/10/2018, 12:47, "Michał Purzyński" <michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com> wrote:

    I’d recommended everything but super micro.  
    
    A box of matches to shine the light on the dark corners of your network will behave better than anything built on super micro.
    
    HP and other vendors may seem more expensive to buy, but the low quality of super micro servers, apparent lack of support, arbitrary cut support “we do not support this anymore” and ridiculous replacement policy makes it a non-starter for me.
    
    Example: they wanted me to send all dead hard drives back before they can send me a replacement.
    And that would take days or a week or two weeks.
    
    Raid battery problems?
    
    SM requires you to send entire server back and in a short 6 weeks - 3 months you will see it back. Maybe.
    
    Mechanically, chassis are a joke, too.
    
    OOB? No OOB hardware monitoring. And Java 1.6 required. If you have to use any kind of proxies, socks, tunneling - forget.
    
    
    > On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Carlos Lopez <clopmz at outlook.com> wrote:
    > 
    > Hi all,
    > 
    > In the following days, we will setup a Bro-IDS distributed architecture using 10 sensors and one manager. Network bandwidth will be between 2GiB-4GiB. Until now we used HP servers, but we are looking at SuperMicro servers as well. Can anyone recommend series or model?
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    > Regards,
    > C. L. Martinez
    > 
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