Storage for 100 thousand or how to save on expensive projects
Hi, Habrozhiteli! Judging by the large number of responses, the theme of used servers is becoming increasingly popular. In this article, we want to share with our readers specific cases that we were able to successfully solve using used server equipment. All examples are supported by numbers in order to avoid being unfounded.
For all the time of our work, we have helped more than 300 companies to solve problems related to IT infrastructure, saving them money as much as possible. The names of the companies and the names of the people are put out of the brackets, if you are interested in any of the projects listed below, our clients can share their experience of working with our company and answer your questions. Also numerous comments of Habr who have already purchased equipment from us can write comments below.
Aim: cost optimization and storage system creation
More than once, in the comments to our articles, they wrote that it is very difficult to find second-hand storage systems in the market. High demand for this kind of equipment is absolutely understandable, because the prices for new data storage systems start at 200,000 rubles. and higher. We were approached by our friends from St. Petersburg, who are engaged in hosting - BeGet with a request to find a solution for creating backups. We offered the 4U Huawei OcenStor and OceanSpace expansion shelves and 2 Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 32GB servers. By connecting the shelf to the server via a controller or hba-card, we get a full storage system. Each shelf is designed for 24 disks, as much as possible you can install disks of 6TB (total 144TB). After successful testing, 8 more shelves and 8 servers were purchased. Previously, for these purposes, the customer purchased SuperStorage Server 6048R-E1CR24N.
This is how our solution looks like:
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Goal: Reducing server purchase costs
Often a company needs a new server, but the budget does not allow you to make an expensive purchase. How to be and what to do in this situation?
There are several options:
Goal: minimum investment, maximum return
The economic situation is not improving, but there are a number of companies that are expanding the scope of their business and need additional server hardware.
Thus, we strongly support the position of "minimum investment, maximum return." This is one of the few success stories that we decided to write about in the article. All the above comparisons are relative and should be considered in the context of the tasks facing the client.
We are doing everything to find your perfect server!
For all the time of our work, we have helped more than 300 companies to solve problems related to IT infrastructure, saving them money as much as possible. The names of the companies and the names of the people are put out of the brackets, if you are interested in any of the projects listed below, our clients can share their experience of working with our company and answer your questions. Also numerous comments of Habr who have already purchased equipment from us can write comments below.
No. 1 storage at an affordable price
Aim: cost optimization and storage system creation
More than once, in the comments to our articles, they wrote that it is very difficult to find second-hand storage systems in the market. High demand for this kind of equipment is absolutely understandable, because the prices for new data storage systems start at 200,000 rubles. and higher. We were approached by our friends from St. Petersburg, who are engaged in hosting - BeGet with a request to find a solution for creating backups. We offered the 4U Huawei OcenStor and OceanSpace expansion shelves and 2 Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 32GB servers. By connecting the shelf to the server via a controller or hba-card, we get a full storage system. Each shelf is designed for 24 disks, as much as possible you can install disks of 6TB (total 144TB). After successful testing, 8 more shelves and 8 servers were purchased. Previously, for these purposes, the customer purchased SuperStorage Server 6048R-E1CR24N.
This is how our solution looks like:
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| Name | amount | price, rub. | Total cost, rub. |
| SuperStorage Server 6048R-E1CR24N 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 32GB | ten | 409,720 | 4,097,200 |
| Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 32GB + Huawei OceanStor / Space | ten | 93 900 | 939,000 |
| Saving | 3 158 200 | ||
- Implementation of the project within the budget
- Savings of up to 3 158 200 rubles.
â„–2 Combined Server
Goal: Reducing server purchase costs
Often a company needs a new server, but the budget does not allow you to make an expensive purchase. How to be and what to do in this situation?
There are several options:
- One of the clients had a “Wishlist” of the following nature - insert new components into the used server. We took our server as a basis - the Asus RS500-E6 / PS4 with two X5650 processors. Next, they installed there new components: the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i controller and a battery for it. I must say that the controller with a battery cost almost as much as our server. The client was very pleased with the purchase.
* For details on comparing new servers, see our previous article .Name price, rub. Total cost, rub. Asus RS500-E6 / PS4 2x Intel Xeon X5650 48GB; LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i controller; Backup flash drive PR. BBU LSICVM01 LSI00297 LSI LS 126 470 126 470 Supermicro 6017R-NTF 2x Intel Xeon E-5 2620 v2 48GB *; LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i controller; Backup flash drive PR. BBU LSICVM01 LSI00297 LSI LS 267,070 267,070
The result: savings when buying a new server amounted to 140,600 rubles. - Another option is to use a used shell for building a new server. We do the following - armed with a “file, a soldering iron and a Dremel”, we install a new motherboard with powerful E-5 processors into the old case. And the server is ready to go. What is the savings here? Let's make a small comparison:
New server:
Combined server:Name price, rub. Supermicro CSE-815TQ-600CB; X9DRD-IF; 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2; SNK-P0047PS4; 8GB PC10600 KINGSTON 211,240
* used componentsName price, rub. Supermicro CSE-815TQ-560U *; X9DRD-IF; 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 *; SNK-P0047PS4; 8Gb Samsung 10600R * 112 970
Savings are due to the used body, processor and memory; warranty and pre-sales testing attached.
The result: savings of 98,270 rubles.
â„–3 Business expansion
Goal: minimum investment, maximum return
The economic situation is not improving, but there are a number of companies that are expanding the scope of their business and need additional server hardware.
- Among these companies was a company that is engaged in a project on the organization of urban video surveillance. The project required 50 Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers with 16GB of RAM. These low-cost single-node servers with two Intel Xeon E5440 processors are excellent in technical specifications and have become a worthy alternative to buying new hardware. In the table below, we compared the purchase from us and the price of the new server being considered by the client:
The result: savings of 2 435 000 rubles.Name amount price, rub. Total cost, rub. Dell PowerEdge 1950 2x Intel Xeon E5440 16GB 50 17 800 890 000 Dell PowerEdge R220 1x Intel Xeon E3-1220 V3 16GB 50 66 500 3 325 000 Saving 2,435,000 - Those companies for which the server is the main tool for making money are not left aside. Several major hosting providers bought dozens of servers Supermicro 6016T-UF, significantly increasing the required capacity. The clients themselves admitted that if it were not for the used servers, they would have had to cut their purchases by at least 4–7 times or significantly increase the procurement budget.
An example of a specific alternative - the client had the choice to either buy 20 new servers, or 50 used servers:
The bottom line: saving at least 3,311,800 rubles.Name amount price, rub. Total cost, rub. Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 48GB 50 40 900 2,045,000 Supermicro SYS-6017R-NTF 2x Intel Xeon E-5-2630 V2 48GB 20 267,840 5 356 800 - A large number of requests are received daily from corporate clients, with a wide variety of fields of activity: the hotel business, food, construction, restaurant business, educational institutions, logistics and many others. Everyone has limited budgets, and we are trying to satisfy the need for equipment. Such clients are mainly used by used servers to install 1C, file storage, mail server, etc.
Examples:- Product company: put the Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 16GB server with an Adaptec 5405 controller to work with the program through which the cash registers pass through
- Belarusian company for the organization of electronic document management: put 2 servers Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon X5650 96GB for virtualization
- Trading house: put Hewlett-Packard DL360 G5 2x Intel Xeon E5440 8GB to work in the CRM system
- City polyclinic: Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5530 for data backup
- Product company: put the Supermicro 6016T-UF 2x Intel Xeon E5620 16GB server with an Adaptec 5405 controller to work with the program through which the cash registers pass through
Thus, we strongly support the position of "minimum investment, maximum return." This is one of the few success stories that we decided to write about in the article. All the above comparisons are relative and should be considered in the context of the tasks facing the client.
We are doing everything to find your perfect server!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/277401/
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