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I believe it's all Supermicro hardware. We looked into it as well (higher ed) and it was just way too expensive for their NX servers with Intel Silver CPUs.

I've heard stories that it's usually low cost to enter, but when you want more CPU/storage it's ungodly expensive.

Even the initial quote for three hosts was ridiculous for the CPUs offered.

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> Even the initial quote for three hosts was ridiculous for the CPUs offered.

And storage, a few years ago they were trying to convince us that their cache is soo good, you should use spinning disks with some SSD cache. Of course they wouldn't provide any concrete numbers, and even with hybrid storage and subpar CPUs, they were a decent chunk more expensive than traditional servers with better CPUs and a dedicated full flash SAN.

Add to that the subpar (even in their demos!) software with lacking APIs, and it just seemed extremely weird to see them getting business.

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