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Purchase new development ("tool") server

Open pnorman opened this issue 3 years ago • 11 comments

  • [x] Decide specs
  • [x] Get quote
  • [x] Circulate quote for comment
  • [x] Request pro-forma invoice
  • [x] Send invoice to treasurer
  • [ ] Wait for server to be built and shipped
  • [ ] Open incoming shipment ticket with Equinix

The development server errol is a server open for developers to use, and many tasks are run on it. It is 10 years old and critically in need of replacement.

I see two options: something like the planet server, or used HP kit. We could get a HP DL360 Gen9 and put in two boot drives and up to 6 3.84TB SSDs, either SATA or SAS. I'd be fine with SATA in this application. We could put in 6x3.84TB + 2x240GB SATA and get 15.36TB in RAID6, and this would remain within budget.

pnorman avatar Jun 22 '21 04:06 pnorman

The HP option is about 6.7k eur net, the new option is likely to be >9k. Given this, I think the HP offers much better value.

pnorman avatar Jun 23 '21 12:06 pnorman

Something like this - I'll have to get a manual quote to get the RAM speed right and deal with a proforma/etc, but it's in budget and has RAID6+hotspare SAS

SH-20210625022121.pdf

pnorman avatar Jun 25 '21 09:06 pnorman

Moved to 2022Q3 or 2022Q4

pnorman avatar Jul 16 '22 22:07 pnorman

Up to date quote for a HP DL360 Gen10: 7.6k EUR ex-vat.

SH-20220801235138.pdf

Rackservers.com quote for new AMD EPYC 7413 (24 core @ 2.64GHz) with 256GB RAM and same drives is 13.7k EUR

pnorman avatar Aug 02 '22 07:08 pnorman

@Firefishy can you get me a total for disk space needed. Also, do you think we need a hot spare for the dev server drives?

pnorman avatar Aug 02 '22 07:08 pnorman

@pnorman

I emailed all dev users, I have heard back from some already. 15 are happy with me terminating their accounts.

Disk space requirement: 8TB to 10TB would be ideal. A hot spare would be my preference.

Firefishy avatar Aug 02 '22 14:08 Firefishy

Email sent for a quote for 2x AMD EPYC 7413, 256GB RAM, 6x 3.84TB SATA SSD, 2x480GB SATA SSD.

pnorman avatar Aug 03 '22 00:08 pnorman

Pro-forma sent to treasurer and accountant. We went for a HP DL360 Gen10 with NVMe, since they've come down in price.

pnorman avatar Aug 16 '22 10:08 pnorman

Payment has been made, waiting to hear back from Serverschmiede

grischard avatar Aug 20 '22 12:08 grischard

ETA is 25th or 26th for when it gets shipped.

pnorman avatar Aug 24 '22 22:08 pnorman

The supplier incorrectly shipped the server to the wrong address. The server is currently trapped somewhere between brexit land and nowhere. Supplier is chasing, but not much movement in the last week.

Firefishy avatar Sep 03 '22 11:09 Firefishy

The machine is still in limbo.

Firefishy avatar Sep 19 '22 16:09 Firefishy

Server is racked, OS installed and migration is happening in https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/752

Firefishy avatar Sep 26 '22 13:09 Firefishy