Evaluating hardware: Price, capacity, port count and more
Half the usage will support various applications on HP-UX and AIX servers accessing Oracle databases; the other half probably toward a DB2 warehouse application.
Option 1 looks good based on cost ... what a deal. The thought is, nobody is complaining today, so why spend on better stuff! Option 2 looks good based on cost in relation to "newer" stuff. Option 3 looks good based on the cost being close to HDS ... which we thought was rare for EMC. Option 4 looks good primarily because we have been an IBM shop for years, thus the close relationship and all that stuff.
1. IBM 2105 Turbo (new):
32 GB cache
8 2-GB FC
10 TB capacity
72 GB 15k rpm drive
$5,400 monthly 3 year lease
2. HDS Lightning 9980V:
12 GB cache
8 2-GB FC
10 TB capacity
72 GB 15k rpm drive
$12,366 monthly 3 year lease
3. EMC DMX2000:
16 GB cache
16 2-GB FC
10 TB capacity
72 GB 15k rpm drive
$13,722 monthly 3 year lease
4. IBM DS8300:
32 GB cache
8 2-GB FC
10 TB capacity
72 GB 15k rpm drive
$16,350 monthly 3 year lease
Now, regarding your options, all are good solutions providing scalable performance, capacity and resiliency. Option 1 may be attractive, because it costs you nothing but the maintenance on the existing IBM 2105-F20. If you are not attaching S/390 IBM mainframes using FICON or ESCON, then you have some other options to consider, including IBM DS4000 (formerly FAStT) or DS6000, HDS 9500V, HP EVA or XP, STK FlexLine, EMC Clariion CX, or Sun 6920 or 9900 (Hitachi) among others.
