Out with the Dell, In with the Sun
When Sun acquired identity management standout Waveset a few years ago, along with the company came a whole bunch of Dell boxes that they had acquired, post-boom, on the cheap.
Thanks to the magic of virtualization however, these roughly 125 systems have been recently replaced by 7 Sun Fire X2200 servers. (For those inquiring minds, the X2200s being used are each fitted out with 2 dual core AMD 64s, 32GM of RAM and 2 500GB SATA drives.)
Think of all the power the Dell boxes used to draw and the heat that they generated, heck you probably now need a parka when you go in the lab! And what will they do with all with all that extra space? An air hockey table? Ping Pong? My vote would be for a tiki bar.
Outgoing Dells
Chris G., IT dude extrodinaire, sits on a mini-mountain of outgoing Dell boxes.
More Dell boxes on their way out. This stack equals one X2200.
The rest of the Dells -- as far as the eye can see.
Incoming Suns
All of the above were replaced with this rack of 5 servers plus 2 more in another rack.
Pau for now...
Donate them...
I could use a few smaller ones
to take to the mainland China
for my nephews.
Posted by 128.249.96.252 on October 23, 2007 at 03:07 PM CDT #
The systems have already been sent off to be recycled/reused. Ill chat with Chris about the possibility of donating future systems.
Posted by Barton on October 23, 2007 at 04:02 PM CDT #
who uses Dell desktop pcs instead of servers?
Posted by Otmanix on October 23, 2007 at 05:15 PM CDT #
Startups use Dell desktop pc's instead of servers....and this was a startup operation before Sun acquired it.
Posted by Gupsta on October 24, 2007 at 02:28 PM CDT #
I like the tiki bar idea, and I bet you could even do without the kegarator for chillin the kegs, that is of course now that the lab is probably forty-degrees cooler.
Posted by $NtheBank on October 24, 2007 at 02:33 PM CDT #
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