Random Q for folks, since it's been a long time since I've bought a server from an outside vendor, surprisingly. What's a reasonable cost for a two socket HP/Dell server with non-outrageous 2x CPU, RAM, and drive specs? (Was quoting a server cluster and the prices came back high enough that I choked for a moment.)
@zetasyanthis for a mid line one? $10-15k or so for Dell, last time I specced one.
@faynefluff Okay, was wondering. I kinda balked when they quoted me $35k per server. I'm so used to internal pricing that I don't have a reference for what shit should cost.
@zetasyanthis I mean, define ‘non-outrageous specs’ if that’s what they’re quoting you? If it’s direct from Dell they won’t differ too much from online pricing.
@faynefluff I'm actually punching it into Dell's website at the moment to see what their pricing is. :P
@zetasyanthis yeah, if it’s from a VAR they can bump it up a bit. Never really liked VARs for hardware purchases like that myself.
@zetasyanthis Also makes a pretty big difference between a 6XX/7XX/8XX series too.
@zetasyanthis Yeah a quick check on an r740 with a twin Xeon Gold 6240 and 256gb ram is about $13k; with a single drive for the hypervisor.
Moving up to Xeon Platinums bumps the price up -hard- tho, as does adding extra storage.
@zetasyanthis The Platinums aren’t really needed for a 2-socket system though; they’re more designed for 4 or 8 sockets.
@zetasyanthis hope that helped a bit~
@faynefluff Yes, it did! And since you were asking, I was looking at 3x boxes that'd handle SQL and ES clusters at the same time, as well as a bunch of disk cold storage for log files.
@faynefluff My initial spec was a bit shoot-the-moon, but honestly not even outrageous these days.
2x Gold 6254
24x 16GB DIMM (768GB RAM)
2x 240GB SSD
2x 1.6TB NVMe SSD
8x 10TB SATA HDD
1x Dual 100G card
@faynefluff My reasoning was that ES in particular will eat all the RAM and CPU you can give it, and that we'll have a LOT of log files going into it.