I have several clients where we use Blue Iris with between 4 and 20 cameras. I have a client that currently uses a combination of 30 Cisco CIVS-IPC-7530PD and CIVS-IPC-7030 5MP cameras. They have a Cisco Video Surveillance Manager server, it's a linux installation and it is needlessly complicated, plus we are lacking root passwords and it only stores video for 7 days.
I am considering switching to Blue Iris for this client, but want to make sure I won't be losing functionality and that our server can handle the number of cams. Normally I install $50-$300 IP cams but when I looked up these cisco cams they were over $2000MSRP each so I feel like they are a little out of my comfort zone.
The hardware will be a Dell server I am re-purposing. It has a Xeon 6 core 12 thread CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD for primary drive and purple surveillance drives for storage in a RAID5 array with write cache.
I am considering switching to Blue Iris for this client, but want to make sure I won't be losing functionality and that our server can handle the number of cams. Normally I install $50-$300 IP cams but when I looked up these cisco cams they were over $2000MSRP each so I feel like they are a little out of my comfort zone.
The hardware will be a Dell server I am re-purposing. It has a Xeon 6 core 12 thread CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD for primary drive and purple surveillance drives for storage in a RAID5 array with write cache.
