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As previously mentioned LHC OPN sites (and the perfsonar developers) in the States have been ordering R310s and ordering separate 10G cards from Dell. This configuration is being successfully used for bandwidth tests. (I can get details of who is using them if people want.) Dell don't directly offer a BTO option but I think that is just because they don't envisage people wanting this. We may be able to get them to add the option. I will ask them. Ian On 12 Jan 2012, at 15:45, "Ewan MacMahon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- >> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Mitchell >> Sent: 10 January 2012 12:34 >> >> Therefore, could we have a quick discussion on which device we wish to buy >> as we should have a standardised model across the UK for these devices. >> > > So, to summarise: > - We like the idea of things like RAID, redundant PSUs, and > hot-swap disks for the sake of keeping things up, and for > the sake of peaceful contented sysadmins, > - We like 10Gbit cards, > - We don't want to gratuitously overspend on pointless stuff. > > I think the R310 and R610 specs that I posted look reasonable, > but it would be useful to get quotes from Dell for the R310 > with a 10Gbit Ethernet card (and confirmation that it's > capable of driving one at a decent rate, which is different > from 'it basically functions'), and also for an R610 with a > single CPU. > > Is that fair, or does anyone want to suggest anything else, > because we want to get a final answer to this quite shortly > so people can actually go buy things. > > Ewan