# Who is your vendor of choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Server Hardware\ **Created:** [December 10, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347 "2022-12-10T20:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/wizardtux/32/4_2.png) [@WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/u/WizardTux)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/1 "2022-12-10T20:11:11Z")
I would say I’m partial to the big brands, however I think I’m coming around. ---
**Author:** ![withyuk](https://community.itbible.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@withyuk](https://community.itbible.org/u/withyuk)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/2 "2023-02-01T23:40:01Z")
> [@WizardTux](#): > > I would say I’m partial to the big brands, however I think I’m coming around. The brand’s I use are HPE for network switching and Fortinet for security etc ---
**Author:** ![WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/wizardtux/32/4_2.png) [@WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/u/WizardTux)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/3 "2023-02-26T22:06:07Z")
> [@WizardTux](#): > > I would say I’m partial to the big brands, however I think I’m coming around. Shortly after I said that our vendor sent us a server that they knew had hardware issues and we had to fight them for a refund… So I think we’re moving to Dell now. ---
**Author:** ![Alekspish](https://community.itbible.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@Alekspish](https://community.itbible.org/u/Alekspish)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/4 "2023-04-04T18:10:25Z")
Out of this list dell for sure. Best management tools and they don’t hide update packages behind a support paywall. Also dell open manage is really useful. ---
**Author:** ![WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/wizardtux/32/4_2.png) [@WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/u/WizardTux)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/5 "2023-04-04T21:45:14Z")
> [@Alekspish](#): > > Out of this list dell for sure. Best management tools and they don’t hide update packages behind a support paywall. Also dell open manage is really useful. What about outside of this list? ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/andy/32/18_2.png) [@Andy](https://community.itbible.org/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/6 "2023-04-07T16:26:45Z")
The agency that I worked for prior to my current agency upgraded to all Dell VXrail nodes. Those things are pretty powerful! I was very impressed. We migrated from HPE servers to the VXrail. ---
**Author:** ![WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/wizardtux/32/4_2.png) [@WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/u/WizardTux)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/7 "2023-04-08T14:59:41Z")
> [@Andy](#): > > The agency that I worked for prior to my current agency upgraded to all Dell VXrail nodes. Those things are pretty powerful! I was very impressed. We migrated from HPE servers to the VXrail. I wish we were more standard on servers, it seems like we have brands all over the place (especially after Covid). ---
**Author:** ![WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/user_avatar/community.itbible.org/wizardtux/32/4_2.png) [@WizardTux](https://community.itbible.org/u/WizardTux)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.itbible.org/t/who-is-your-vendor-of-choice/347/8 "2025-06-02T12:02:02Z")
I guess I never ended up updating this… We started using a vendor that sells all of the big brands so it kind of works out.