Re: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You guys gotta remember that when it says "Install Disk #2" that you 
don't always have to "Remove disk #1" :-)

OK Just kidding. There are options for 6 standard size SAS drives or 8 
Small Form Factor SAS (SFF SAS) drives.  You pick the back-plane. 
Usually these days we go with the SFF drives but either is an option.

The 710 and 730 can run IBM i yes, but with their 2U form factor you 
can't get the stuff in there that we normally want like tape drives etc. 
There is no real $$ savings with these either they just save 2U of rack 
space.

    Hope that Helps!

    - Larry

On 2/15/2011 1:46 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> Larry
>
> I looked at the hardware infocenter - the 720 described there has a max
> of 6 drives - is that right? or are we talking some kind of expansion unit?
>
> Also, are the 710 or 730 an option - they look like a pure rack-mount
>
> Vern
>
> On 2/15/2011 10:40 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> > 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
> > > Regards,
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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