<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Agreed, you don't want to make lots of trip up there. But when balancing the cost of the server, it probably isn't worth 100% redundancy since you can get to the site all year round. But it sounds like you have a workable solution....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kenny</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Bart Kus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us" target="_blank">me@bartk.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>It's at 3000ft, so maybe 1/2 a year is
an exaggeration, but it's a design target.<br>
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Anyway, I got the KVM guy to come down to $50 instead, so I've
decided to just beef up the Rackable and deploy that. It's the
cheapest of all the options.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 05/26/2015 04:48 PM, Kenny Richards wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Slightly
off topic, but is Tiger really not accessible for 1/2 the
year? I can see for a couple days a year, but not for six
months. It just doesn't get that much snow....</div>
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Kus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us" target="_blank">me@bartk.us</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've been trying to get my grubby little hands on a server
for East Tiger. The physical layout of that site demands
we use a shallow depth (1/2 depth) server. There are
surprisingly few servers out there that are both shallow
and offer some kind of hardware RAID and KVM control with
virtual media. I've identified a couple:<br>
<ol>
<li>Dell R210 ii</li>
<ul>
<li>1U</li>
<li>1CPU (E3-12##v2 series)<br>
</li>
<li>Max 32GB RAM</li>
<li>2HD (non-hot-swap)</li>
<li>Stock H200 RAID controller is poopy (no BBWC/FBWC,
no option to enable HD write cache), but it can take
an H700 controller.<br>
</li>
<li>KVM not typically installed, but inexpensive DRAC6
cards available ($15)</li>
<li>Kind of expensive for what it is<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>HP DL320e G8</li>
<ul>
<li>1U</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>1CPU (E3-12##v2 series)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Max 32GB RAM</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>2-4HD depending on chassis (hot-swap)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Stock B210i RAID controller is poopy (no
BBWC/FBWC), but it can take a P222 controller.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>KVM via iLO4 integrated standard</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Expensive</li>
</ul>
</ol>
<p>Given the timing, I've gonna deploy a server I have in
stock, but it's really awful:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Rackable based on Intel S5000PSL motherboard</li>
<ul>
<li>2U</li>
<li>2CPU (really old Xeon 5148)</li>
<li>16GB RAM installed (32GB max, FBDIMM required)</li>
<li>4HD (hot swap)</li>
<li>NO RAID controller, and no room in the chassis to
install one either.<br>
</li>
<li>NO KVM (there is an add-on, but it's $170. It may
or may not fit the chassis.)</li>
<li>"Free!" since it's in my inventory and I'm trying
to either sell the servers off or put them to good
use.</li>
</ul>
</ol>
<p>Since this is going up on a mountain top inaccessible
for 1/2 the year, it's really nice to have the KVM
ability in case something goes wrong or you need to do
troubleshooting (just had to use KVM today to work on
some of our ESXi hosts), and the RAID is nice in case a
drive dies or develops a bad sector.<br>
</p>
<p>Anyway, do any of you have any suggestions for any
other small servers I may not have considered yet?<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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<p>--Bart<br>
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