Dell VRTX
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Think of it as a remote data center in a box
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@Hubtech said:
Think of it as a remote data center in a box
Yes, or a remote "data closet." If you were to build it yourself, it would be four 1U Dell Intel servers plus a single, large SAS DAS disk array. Perfect for a branch office needing all Dell support combined with simplicity of management but not HA. But quite reliable, just not HA.
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and yes, it is super cool.
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Oh I definitely want one
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me too.
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me three!
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OK, let's all chip in. I'll pay the power bill and give you each remote access.
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I'll give you an example that leaps to mind. We have customers onsite who are a small office of a global brand. They needed some IT kit so their parent company pretty much installed "Standard remote office bundle #1" which means that for 5 people they have a rack with 4 2U servers in it, it's obscene, in terms of compute power it's more than our 600 person business has but it's just a typical case of "Standard remote office bundle #1" makes sense because it's standard and known regardless of whether it's right-specced or total overkill.
Stick a VRTX in there and you've got the same capability under someone's desk.
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@hutchingsp said:
I'll give you an example that leaps to mind. We have customers onsite who are a small office of a global brand. They needed some IT kit so their parent company pretty much installed "Standard remote office bundle #1" which means that for 5 people they have a rack with 4 2U servers in it, it's obscene, in terms of compute power it's more than our 600 person business has but it's just a typical case of "Standard remote office bundle #1" makes sense because it's standard and known regardless of whether it's right-specced or total overkill.
Stick a VRTX in there and you've got the same capability under someone's desk.
Yup, if you are doing that, the VRTX really "ups" the value. Easier to support, easier to deploy. Fewer cables means less to go wrong too.
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@ejmillen said:
So do you feel like this is just more of a gimmick for the non-IT minded or uneducated such as myself?
Not a gimmick, just something that IT people seem to glom onto because it looks so cool and want to use so it gets promoted. Dell doesn't promote for weird usage themselves.
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Something to consider with a VRTX is that that is eight to sixteen Intel Xeon CPUs in a loaded chassis. That is a massive amount of compute power (with very little storage throughput.) So you have the CPU power to handle easily ~400 typical VMs. But the storage capacity and throughput of no more than an R510. Even an R720xd or R730xd has more drive capacity than the VRTX. So the ratio of IOPS and capacity to CPU is wildly different than with normal servers.
