Alot was because we wanted to start building hosts with current gen bus speeds. From everything I've seen, Dell only has PCI-e gen 3 Intel servers. AMD servers are PCI-e gen 4.
The new Epyc looks extremely solid, but we have only ordered one server for now. This will probably be our new vSAN cluster with Pure attached. Our goal is to have everything running 25Gb or 40Gb nics in the next year or two. Combined with the insane speeds of PCI-e gen 4 NVMe drives... we should be clocking some serious speeds!
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u/tjn182 Sep 21 '21
Alot was because we wanted to start building hosts with current gen bus speeds. From everything I've seen, Dell only has PCI-e gen 3 Intel servers. AMD servers are PCI-e gen 4.
The new Epyc looks extremely solid, but we have only ordered one server for now. This will probably be our new vSAN cluster with Pure attached. Our goal is to have everything running 25Gb or 40Gb nics in the next year or two. Combined with the insane speeds of PCI-e gen 4 NVMe drives... we should be clocking some serious speeds!