Re: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/15/2011 10:05 AM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Does cost kick up must by going with 300gb drives ?
    About $5K to replace 8 140s with 8 282's.
> I imagine an LTO4 drive is $3-4k
    About that as I recall.
> What's the HMC cost factor ?
    For a rack mounted HMC about $6K. Then you can add a flat panel and 
keyboard or use your own.
> Would the scenario You and Pete described use VIOS or just OS/400 (IBM i) as the host OS ?
    I think I can speak for Pete when I say we like IBM i hosting!!  
VIOS has some capabilities IBM i doesn't but you wouldn't use any of 
them and you would go nuts learning VIOS command line. :-)

        - Larry
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> Richard Schoen
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> message: 2
> date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:40:03 -0500
> from: DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked
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> 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