Re: Google Apps Premier and OpenOffice

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also, don't confuse the cost of acquisition with the cost of operation and
administration, both of which will likely exceed the cost of acquisition
over the product's lifetime.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> > The cost difference between a SAN and non-SAN setup for this is
> $1,619.
> > Still think a SAN is overkill?
>
> I'd be surprised by that, but anything possible. Problem is, that's
> likely more of a NAS solution that a real SAN. Sure, it may be "real" in
> the sense of iSCSI or something, but let's say it's likely not
> industrial strength. Also, if it's iSCSI are you accounting for a second
> gigabit network for the storage? Really don't want storage packets
> flying around on the same network as normal end-user traffic, both from
> a performance point of view and from a monitoring/analysis point of
> view. Also, I assume you'll be running Windows 2008? If not, make sure
> that the people that do the SAN setup know how to setup the LUNs
> correctly to account for the SAN offsets. If don't incorrectly this can
> effectively double your IO costs.
>
> As Lukas points out, where are the DCs in this model? I would also
> question why 1 & 2 can't be combined into one server, I don't see the
> file/print requirements of 25 people as needing their own server, of
> course YMMV.
>
> And are you looking at HyperV or VMWare?
>
> -Walden
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