Re: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the hardware list is roughly $16K for this using 140GB Drives 
and 32GB Memory. No tape drive included and no HMC included either.

 - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 2/14/2011 10:25 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Pete,
>
> That sounds good.
>
> Any idea on what the cost ballpark range is for that type of config ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 9
> date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:10:17 -0500
> from: "Pete Massiello"<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked
>
> I would get a 4 way 720 with an HMC, and then you can virtualize partitions
> on top of IBM i, very easily. We are doing this at my office.   Start with
> just 1 processor, with 6 disks minimum with 32GB of memory, then you can
> make about 5 to 6 partitions depending on what you need.  Can make both 6.1
> &  7.1 partitions.
>
> 	Pete