The spec looks pretty good. One question though: Why do we really need
RAID (hence, the raid-card)? Are we going to store any "important" data
on-site on the monitoring node?
-Santanu
On 13/01/2012 13:11, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
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>>
>> Hi Peter,
>> I am in agreement with this.
> So, that's this spec, unless anyone has any remaining objections:
>
> - Pair of E5620 CPUs,
> - 12Gb memory,
> - RAID 1,
> - PERC H200,
> - 2x 500Gb disks,
> - Redundant PSU,
> - Power leads,
> - a 10Gb SFP+ interface,
> - iDRAC6 Enterprise,
> - 5yr basic warranty.
>
> and that comes to £1496.66 (ex VAT) or £1795.20 (inc VAT), on
> the LHC portal (or at least it did a few days ago). So everyone
> gets one of those for gridmon, and the perfsonar sites get a
> further two each to run the two bits of perfsonar on.
>
> Ewan
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