Summary: Purchase a new VM hosting server Requesters: Robin Johnson (robbat2) (and the rest of the infra team helped on this request) Deadline: ASAP Priority: High Amount requested: Estimated $9704 USD Funding disbursement: Foundation direct purchase using Paypal Vendors: (quotes to be attached) - WiredZone. add $75USD for assembled system. - NewEgg. OSL to do assembly. - Dell. Itemized expense list: - 1x Supermicro 2U Twin server (two nodes in a single 2U server), $2725 USD. - 4x Xeon E5-2620v4 ($419/ea) - 8x 32GB DDR4 ECC Registered RAM ($168USD/ea) - 4x 1TB SSD ($345USD/ea) - 8x 2TB SAS3 7200RPM HDD ($313USD/ea) - Shipping (Free) - System assembly & testing ($75USD) Justification: The prior hardware hosting dipper.gentoo.org died in May 2016, and like other hardware at OSL, was very old (ages 5-9 years). Supporting Information: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/0fd81cfef76fcfffca43e1691e6e674e - dipper outage notice https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/9f0608babfba8b29b9454e563fd82316 - dipper postmortem https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/518e59789349d0979e66eac8e5cdebc2 - initial hardware plan posted publically
Created attachment 436332 [details] WiredZone quote Attached WiredZone quote, does not include $75 for assembly & testing, nor the spare HDD and CAT6a patch cable.
Created attachment 436334 [details] ThinkMate quote ThinkMate quote, no disks. Base cost $10401. Notes: - NVME variant of chassis, - higher spec CPU - 3 year warranty included. - Disks would add another ~$3900 to cost.
Created attachment 436336 [details] Dell R430 quote Dell R430 quote. $4416.68USD. No disks. Notes: - that this is a single server, not a twin server, quantity required would be two. - Higher spec CPU than WiredZone quote. - Only 1Gbit ethernet, not 10gbit. - Disks add another ~$3900USD. - Warranty: 3 years Estimated total: $12733.36USD
Warranty comparison: WiredZone: 3 years labour, 1 year parts, 120 days advanced DOA overnight ThinkMate: 3 year depot warranty (return for repair, no parts support) Dell: 3 year basic, 5x10 hardware only, 5x10 NBD on-site.
Pricing apples-to-apples attempt: WiredZone: CPU 2620v4: $433.20/ea. CPU 2650v4: $1,199.45/ea. Total CPU price difference: $3065.00 USD Effective total price: $12769.00 USD ThinkMate+disks: effective total price: $14301 USD * note NVME chassis variant still, some disk slots usable as NVME only. Dell+disks: Effective total price: $12733.36 USD * note no 10GBit ethernet. * Note v3 variant of CPU; no v4 variant available.
Infra's preference here is for the WiredZone server, rather than the ThinkMate or Dell options. We don't feel a need for the additional CPU horsepower, and would prefer to have the other disk slots available for non-NVME, and do want 10GBit ethernet for the crossover. The Dell could get 10GBit cards added.
I support the request and infra's preference
I support the request and infras preference.
Created attachment 436346 [details] WiredZone updated quote WiredZone updated quote. New total $10029.00 Changes: - adds spare 2TB HDD per original planning email - adds CAT6 patch cable - includes assembly in total.
dabbott, antarus: I'm waiting for one more trustee to vote, other than myself, then I'll fire the order.
Approved from me as well.
Thanks everybody. Order fired with the vendor now :-).
These servers are in operation: ovenbird.gentoo.org, oriole.gentoo.org The first Atom server has moved to this new environment, and it also hosts the clangtest VM for the GSoC project. (don't close this bug till I finish the accounting for it).
Filed in financials. Entity: Wiredzone TaxImplication: USA-Corporation Reference: expenses/20160603_vm_server.txt
