Reply to rant: [olug] server life span

[Craig Wolf]

We just purchased a Compaq SAN device and 6 new 1U servers.  Ran us very
close to the same price as buying 6 Fat servers.  We also looked at the
XioTech SAN.  We liked their SAN device better but the ongoing costs for
software were, um surprising?  Needless to say the Compaq solution will
do fine for what we need unless we add Linux to the device then it gets
interesting and expensive.  I won't bore anyone with more rambling...

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Backup Supervisor
Desktop/Network Specialist
Support Services Center
Millard Public Schools
402-894-6283


>>> schmeits at clarksoncollege.edu 9/26/2002 >>>
Greetings:
Gotta' bitch..  We bought a Proliant 3000 4 years. Since then we have
added several disks and an additional cpu. Currently it have about 50G
of storage space. Main function is a file server.

this machine has served us well. But at the end of this year it comes
off the hardware support contact and now must look for a new bigger
faster server.

I hate retiring servers.

It seems silly to spend several thousand dollars and retire it 4 years
later.  Is it me or what??  Why cant a person add another blade of
some
sort and keep the machine another 4 years of support. Is there a
better
way of upgrading servers than this???


Might be time to look at a SAN.

done with rant..



Roger


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