On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 15:55, stuart taylor via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > > hi all, > > We will have food for thouht at our admins meeting later this week. We have 4 > servers in our cabinet all quite old and all donated second hand: two IBM > X3250s (I think) and two SUN ultras. The solutions suggested are all very > good but probably beyond what I would be allowed to spend. Donations are > down, rent has stayed the same and the only good point is that staff are > allowed to work at home, so renting more space won't happen. > > Stuart >
Hi Stuart, Those are very old servers indeed. It might be worth comparing rack rental costs vs using a VM on a service provider. The Surrey LUG server that I help maintain is a VM. Fortunately the VM is donated to us by the service provider, so it costs us nothing. But saying that, the resources it takes up are minimal so the service provider hardly notices it. I think it averages about 1 page hit per day! If you are a charity, it might be worth asking some service providers if they would donate a VM for your use also. I think the IBM X3250s have an option remote management card, that would do the same job as iDRAC, LOM. I don't know about the SUN ultras. Kind Regards James -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
