[Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations

Michał Purzyński michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:15:00 PDT 2018


Didn’t Apple remove super micro back in 2016?
Aren’t aws servers custom anyway?

So yeah, poor Palo Alto ;)

With those allegations true or not, if supermicro goes out of business there’s no support anymore. 


> On Oct 4, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Perry Lucas <perry at degy.com> wrote:
> 
> I wouldn’t be surprised if other supply chains have been compromised as well. This is likely just the first.
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> From: bro-bounces at bro.org <bro-bounces at bro.org> On Behalf Of Edgmand, Craig
> Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 11:36 AM
> To: Michał Purzyński <michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com>; Alex Waher <alexwis at gmail.com>
> Cc: bro at bro.org List <bro at bro.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations
>  
> With today’s scandal Super Micro might not be around/available for much longer.
>  
> https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/super-micro-shares-plummet-amid-china-tech-spying-scandal.html
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> From: bro-bounces at bro.org <bro-bounces at bro.org> On Behalf Of Michal Purzynski
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 12:28 PM
> To: Alex Waher <alexwis at gmail.com>
> Cc: bro at bro.org List <bro at bro.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bro] OT: SuperMicro hardware recommendations
>  
> One other non-HP brand I’ve always been recommending is Fujitsu.
>  People are always surprised that “Fujitsu makes servers?” but my experience has always been great with both the hardware side and the support.
>  
> They were cheaper than HP, last time I was buying them.
>  
> 
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Alex Waher <alexwis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
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>     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.
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>     > 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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