[Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations

[Alex Waher]

Can also checkout the offerings from the OpenCompute project;
https://www.opencompute.org/products
Can even stick with HP if you like, their 'Cloudline' gear supports (some
aspects) of OCP.

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:19 PM Carlos Lopez <clopmz at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> 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?
>     > --
>     > Regards,
>     > C. L. Martinez
>     >
>     >
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