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HP, at least, doesn't seem to want to sell any type of server to anyone. I recently tried to configure a Proliant DL385 Gen11, in order to give my sales rep a
by semi-extrinsic 3y ago
HP, at least, doesn't seem to want to sell any type of server to anyone.
I recently tried to configure a Proliant DL385 Gen11, in order to give my sales rep a coherent list of "this is what I want" in terms of CPUs, memory and disks. And let me tell you, it's a sales experience that might just as well be a Monty Python sketch, it's so bad.
I mean literally, one of their subdomains had a certificate expired so that I had to add a security exception just to view the information. The page in question had select boxes that couldn't be scrolled, anything I did would just scroll the main page instead. Their other configurator (because ofc they need at least two different ones) was completely unusable, when you try to select a drive or something you get an explosion of recursive "to select that you also need to select this cable kit, one of those 4 cages and deselect that other thing" warnings. Like, if you know what to fix, just fix it!!
- jgalt212 3y agoThis is beyond frustrating, as Ampere servers (low power) are tailor made for on-prem compute. I like because I want my devs and data scientists doing green field stuff to have $0 marginal cost for compute. premature optimization being the root of all evil, and all that.