| Blade System Costs
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- Hardware costs are minor cost item to the total system costs
- hardware items: cpu, disk, memory, power supply, fans
- Name Brand's "Blade System" cost comparison should be a good metric
- Name Brand's Blade System Costs
- Name Brand's Recognition
- Name Brand's Track Record
- Name Brand's Marketing, Advertising, Sales, Press, Attorneys
- Name Brand's Software Integration and Tested plaforms
- Name Brand's Pre-Sales and Post-Sales support contracts
- Name Brand's meetings, conference calls and consultations
- Name Brand's "knowledgeable" support staff
- It is important to note that the PEOPLE work at NameBrand Inc
whereas, we custom build per customer specs
- Example Expensive [ large ] Systems
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| ITX-Blades.net - Example Inexpensive Blade System
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$ 2500
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ITX-Blades.net 4U Blade Chassis
- w/ 5x blades for each Mini-ITX Motherboards
- w/ power cables from 2 atx power supply ( only +12v is used )
- w/ 9 cooling fans
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Customers add their choice of mb, cpu, mem, disk
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$ 1750
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10x Mini-ITX motherboard
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$ 3000
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10x P4-3G
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$ 1200
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10x 512MB
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$ 600
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10x 40GB 7200rpm disks
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3TB / BladeChassis -- $ 3,000 for 10x 300GB disks
12TB / BladeChassis -- $12,000 for 40x 300GB disks
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$ 9050
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Off-the-Shelf-Parts 10x P4-3G w/ 10x 40GB blades
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$ 12,000 Off-the-Shelf-Parts 10x P4-3G w/ 10x 300GB blades
$ 21,000 Off-the-Shelf-Parts 10x P4-3G w/ 40x 300GB blades
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$ 1500
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Blade Assembly time
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$ 1500
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Linux Install, SimpleTesting, Ordering/Receiving/Inventory
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does NOT include raid testing
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$ ???
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Packing, Shipping, Handling Options
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$ ???
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Cluster software, install, config, testing over weeks of time
Most customers tend to re-install and re-configure for your cluster environment
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$ ???
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Packing, Shipping, Handling
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$ 12,050
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GRAND TOTAL 1-disk Blade System
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| Custom Blade Systems
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- Off-The-Shelf-Parts Only
- Least expensive
- costs of the blade chassis, blades
- costs of the rack, power supply, cooling fans
- costs of the motherboard, cpu, memory, disk
- You install the software and config your "cluster"
- PreConfigured Blades
- Prices range from $x,000 to $xx,000,000
- Prices range based on application it runs and its vendors
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| ITX-Blades.net Pre-Configured Blade Systems
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Capacity
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PartsCosts
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Assembled
Tested
Installed
System
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1.2TB
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$1.5K
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$15K
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12TB
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$25K
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$250K
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Each 42U Rack:
hold 10 4U Blade chassis
100 independent nodes
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120TB
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$250K
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$2,500K
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- At these size of storage, List Pricing Includes
- Factors affecting Costs
- PreSales Consulting w/ non-refundable deposits
- Define/Receive Client System Specifications and Performance criteria
- OnSite Existing Network and Server Survey
- OnSite Air conditioning and Power systems
- System Security audit
- Hot swap demo
- 10TB of Backup Storage and Restore demo
- Demo System Testing
- After non-refundable, non-negotiable purchase orders w/ credit approval
- OnSite System Install
- Fully loaded system
- 2 functional Spare blades
- Includes a 3 yr System Admin and Maintenance Contract
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