Re: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked

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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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