There's one in the Dell Outlet right now for $9919.00 with 15 2TB 7.2K RPM drives. About 7-15x the storage you're looking for depending on how you configure. I think that's about what we paid for 15 750GB 15K RPM drives.
Dell put together a complete turn-key package for us including the VMwave licensing & platinum support, storage, chassis, blades, Dell support and warranty. We were lucky and found most of what we needed in the Dell Outlet saving us a good amount of money. We didn't see any reason not to go with the outlet gear because it has the same warranty as new Dell gear. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:41 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? Any idea what that cost? We're looking at ~2TB of data currently, and we'd like some room to grow... Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Belton" <b...@belwave.com> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? > We kept everything Dell, so we're using the Dell MD3000i with about 7TB of > storage. The benefits of keeping everything Dell or HP etc outweighed the > cost savings in our situation. > > Dell has always taken real good care of us. I've called Dell at 4pm with > an issue and they had a replacement part in my hands by 8am the next > morning...no charge. > > Best, > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Jon Auer > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:33 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? > > That's pretty cool. > What are you using for shared storage? > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Brad Belton <b...@belwave.com> wrote: >> Agreed. We’ve run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy, but >> we >> had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything. >> >> >> >> We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start with. >> Loaded VMware and have been blown away with the performance, >> availability, >> power savings and features. A “server” to us now amounts to just a file >> within VMware that we can copy, backup or move wherever we please with a >> simple cut & paste. If VMware “sees” a server go down or a host within >> your >> cluster fail it will automatically fire up the affected servers on a >> different host. Really cool stuff… >> >> >> >> The chassis will hold 16 blades, but just the three blades we have now >> are >> probably 100x the power of the two 42U cabinets stuffed with servers they >> replaced! >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> >> >> Brad >> >> >> >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Jeremy Parr >> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers? >> >> >> >> On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <li...@manageisp.com> wrote: >> >> I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers. All will be >> running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are >> preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations? >> >> Buy a new Dell (or factory refurb) and virtualize everything. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! 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