Hardware Acquisition, Lead - Rich Lang
March 30, 2006
- The system admin's met with a new SAN technology provider EQUALLOGIC
- very progressive hardware strategy
- built upon iSCSI
- provides scalable architecture to grow as needed
- The upgrade quote for the existing HP MA8000 SAN is in.
- HP will be out to meet Tuesday at 10:00 to discuss the upgrade, SAN backups, and future business
- Visit to EMC to get feedback and checkout DELL's blade servers
- Quotes are in from HP for the SoftGrid servers
- second DRAFT requested
- may need to change the Server RAM requirements from 16GB down to 12GB
- Dell is the process of scheduling an appointment this next week
- 'Highly available' server equipment is being spec'd for the OCS environment
- Preliminary evaluation of an ESX virtual server environment will take place next week
