NFS or something else that can be mounted from a Linux box. Two weeks to a month. I guess some difference is that buying storage is "capital" expense, leasing can be with some stretch called "repair".
-- Grigory Shamov
From: Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.netmailto:athompso@athompso.net> Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.mb.camailto:roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2015 1:29 PM To: MUUG Roundtable <roundtable@muug.mb.camailto:roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] leasing storage on-site
No-one local that I know of, no. I can’t even think of anyone who’d be able to do that for you… the leasing costs would almost be as much as the purchase cost! Do you need SAS, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or what? That makes a difference.
The problem is that even dedicated storage vendors don’t have gear like that sitting ready to go even for resale, never mind leasing… the NPV (or depreciation, if you prefer) curve on storage is far too extreme to take that chance.
How short is short-term?
-- -Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.netmailto:athompso@athompso.net Cell: +1 204 291-7950 Fax: +1 204 489-6515
From: Grigory Shamovmailto:Grigory.Shamov@umanitoba.ca Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 13:29 To: MUUG Roundtablemailto:roundtable@muug.mb.ca
Hi All,
Do you know if it is possible to short-term lease storage on-site, in Winnipeg? Like having someone to bring in an appliance (about 100TB capacity) with a decent connection (10GigE at least) to attach directly to a system, for a short time.
-- Grigory Shamov
Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625
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