Hi Wahid,
On 18/11/13 16:42, Wahid Bhimji wrote:
> David
>
> Thanks for this.
> Firstly Borut told me that he heard in a meeting (from Andy Lankford) that Dell LHC deals were back on. I emailed Andy to get more details but have not heard back. Did you hear something along those lines ?
>
Roger says this as well, but Dell UK seem to know nothing about this so
this is a half-way-house
> Otherwise for storage the description below is in line with what I was expecting but:
>
> 1) Many sites have previously prefered to just have the loaded server nodes (prev R510s) with no expansion arrays. So perhaps there should be an option to have that configuration.
> (at Edinburgh we prefer the option with the arrays though)
OK
> 2) If one does have the arrays, then one also needs RAID cards which are worth specifying (prev PERC H800s). They are somewhat expensive so the no array option should also drop those.
OK
> 3) 64G RAM is quite a lot - but maybe it doesn't really change the cost.
I am not an expert, but will defer to others. I think that we should fix
the amount though.
> 4) Disk options: just looking at the dell normal prices - 3TB sata is listed at 386 while 4 TB NL sas is 605. which is quite a lot more. Anyway we maybe need to double check which offers the best value.
Again, I think that we will need to specify which we want but I can check
> 5) For us: Remote management needs to be the top idrac (enterprise I think) as thats the only one with a remote console.
I think that this was what Adam was specifying
> 6) Also warranty can be expensive and ought to be specified e.g. 4 yr pro support.
>
Indeed.
Best,
david
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