On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:32:42PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 07:49:25AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > So, there were two $300k donations in the last year. > > One of these was earmarked for a DSA equipment upgrade. > > DSA has a couple of options to pursue, but it's possible they may > > actually spend $400k on an equipment refresh. > > The information required for an informed discussion on this topic > is missing.
If we (DSA) elect to puchase HPE equipment for EU that is similar to the NA equipment that was donated by HPE (blade enclosure, server blades, 10GE switches, FC storage, FC switches - thank you HPE!), then the (list) costs are as per above. However, without an HPE donation or discount, we are much more likely to follow a less expensive approach: pairs of 2U servers with local storage, etc. Still not cheap but not multiples of 100k. If a hardware vendor happens to offer a discounts, then we can stretch the dollars further. We would love to have HPE or Dell or Lenovo become an ongoing hardware partner; hmu if you can facilitate. When we last crunched the numbers, maintaining a 5y refresh (to stay in warranty, etc.) would require $75k-100k/yr. We've avoided that level of annual expenditure because we are keeping hardware longer than 5y and we've had amazing hardware [donations][1]. Before you ask: an insecure hypervisor is an insecure buildd. [1]: https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20161003. ----- Personally speaking, I would prefer to keep Debian a volunteer organization. ----- -- Luca Filipozzi