Re: IBM x3550 M2, x3650 M2, HS22, and dx360

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:36:54 GMT

Hi Michael,

I have installed many of these servers being a Systems X & Storage Technical specialist at one of the IBM Larger partners. I had mainly faced two problems with the new EFI:

1- Boot time is too slow. It take about 20 minutes to boot a VMware ESX when EFI is used, compared to less than 2 minutes with the normal bios.

2- Boot from SAN specially with Qlogic cards does not seems to make life any easier. I had even got to write a post on how to get this setup trying to help our customers through the process. The post can be found at:

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Though I can tell that the performance of the new systems after they boot up is about 1.5 times what the earlier models used to give. I am comparing the performance as a VMware setup where I can install about 1.5 times the time of VMs at an HS22 to what I used to get on HS21XM.

I hope that help,

Eiad

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Re: IBM x3550 M2, x3650 M2, HS22, and dx360

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