Principled Technologies compared the out-of-box experience of the following three blade systems:
- Dell PowerEdge™ M600 blade system
- HP BladeSystem c-Class
- IBM BladeCenter® H
Key Findings:
- The 16-blade PowerEdge M600 blade system took less than 15 minutes to assemble, compared to over 3 hours for the HP blade product and nearly 2 hours for the IBM system.
- The Dell system arrived with the blades assembled and installed in the chassis. Both the HP and IBM products arrived unassembled, requiring the installation of a processor, memory and hard disk into each blade.
- The Dell system arrived in one box. The HP product arrived in 78 boxes. The IBM product arrived in 62 boxes.