[cisco-voip] HP OEM servers instead of MCS

[Scott Voll]

We are purchasing 5 servers this next month and the HPs are at least a 1/3
less then the MCSs.  The nice part about HP direct is they come with a 3
year parts and labor on them..... rather then paying yearly a huge amount to
cisco for hardware support that I've never used anyway.

I'm also wanting a newer server..... but cisco isn't going to move to a H3
until all the H2's are sold..... and it sounds like they have quite a few
left to sell.  so can we all say..... THANK you cisco for being so customer
first :-(

Scott

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

>  I'm hoping Cisco will update it's swonly page to include the latest HP
> hardware and the H3 equivelants. The only H3 equiv is the 7825. I got a
> quote from an HP rep and she said that stuff is really old. Same deal, but
> she was able to get it for us. It's a shame really, spending all that money
> on old hardware.
>
>
> Lelio
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>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>
> *To:* Matthew Saskin <matt at saskin.net>
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:52 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] HP OEM servers instead of MCS
>
>  Has the HP sales people you folks work with been good with making sure
> you get exactly the right part numbers and following through with the order
> to make sure everything is compatible? We don't have an HP contract so i've
> never worked with them. With our IBM rep i sent the exact part numbers from
> the compatibility list and the guy came back and told me they didnt sell
> that hardware anymore, but seemed willing to try to sell me some servers
> that were not exactly right "but they would run faster anyway". Never mind
> the actual lack of any kind of support from Cisco for them.
>
> I need to replace 4 7845's coming up this fiscal year... gonna look at
> ordering direct from HP this time.
>
>
>>
>> Micah Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> When you provide your own hardware (HP) I assume the only difference is
>>> that you don't have the hardware support from Cisco.  Is the software
>>> support on the applications still the same when you use your own hardware?
>>>
>>>
>>> **Micah Bennett**
>>>
>>
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> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
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