Dell PowerEdge VRTX

[phil4]

http://youtu.be/6klcjsKPx0U

I really like these. Suspect price will be a bit over my budget (which currently equals 0, so not hard), but still really like.

Only concern is a common one with this sort of consolidation (eg. Drobo, VMs etc) - if the chassis fails that's a lot of inaccessible storage and servers.

Still want one.

[spoon_]

Eh? That's gonna be £7-8k easily for that chassis alone...

/EDIT

£8600 ex VAT as reviewed here - I wasn't far off with my estimation!

[phil4]

Yep, that's about right. I ain't talking about buying for home use. Nor for some big corporate.

[Moby-Dick]

so its a 4u blade chassis on its side ? I'd rather use Nutanix or. Intel have had the modular server concept around for a while now.

[phil4]

Sort of, 4 blade chassis, a SAN/NAS of sorts, and all the network interconnect in a small, quiet case.

In my opinion it's a little too expensive for some of the SMBs I work with, where about half the cost (ie. less than 5K) would be more appropriate. But then I'm sure there's many more in the M camp where that's not far off about right.

[Moby-Dick]

there you go http://www.onebigdot.com/department/...2&idcategory=0

[phil4]

Is that not just the chassis? As in need to add blade costs, which probably brings it back up close to that Dell box?

I may be wrong though