-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18.10.2014 09:01, Andy Michielsen wrote: Well that totally depends on your workload and what you want to run and how you want to scale. In other words: no one can give you a good advice on this topic with the information you provided. How many compute nodes (hosts) do you plan? What is your budget? how many vms will you host? how many vm subnets? vlans? which storage technology do you need? iscsi? fibre channel? which technologies do you know(nfs, gluster)? what are your vm workloads? databases, webservers..? if you already have a test setup you should know how much performance you need and I guess you already have some servers with different stuff running. In general: buy hardware you are familiar with and which does the job for you. for reliable servers you could go with dell, hp, ibm or the usual other brandings. but it really depends on your infrastructure and your ecosystem. So: your mileage may vary. HTH Sven