Hi, yes it's me, selling one of these again. At this point I need therapy lol. Bottom line: I don't have the time for this stuff, it doesn't interest me that much and with stuff going on in my family my lab has gone neglected for too long and I have other plans in mind if I'm forced into another career.
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This is a 25x2.5" SAS tower Form factor configuration, complete with all plastics, and caster kit. Cosmetically the unit is in mint condition save from whatever dust I just need to blow out.
I'll try to keep this short and sweet:
VRTX Tower Includes:
This is perhaps actually one of the best builds of these I've ever done, in my opinion, mostly because of the blades themselves. The versatility of the M630 to be able to use 4 drive backplanes make this pretty close to truly being THE lab in a box. You can do local storage (which is natively clustered) or hyper-converged/distributed file storage(vSAN, Ceph, Gluster) all in the same box if you ever get a 10 Gigabit Switch Module. You can still do HCI but you just need an external 10 Gigabit switch of course. You also get the power savings of the DDR4 and C612 chipset and the ability to upgrade to E5-2600 v4 processors later for even better virtualization performance.
Asking $5500 for this. Open to offers.
Will sell individual blades for $950/ea.
If anyone is wondering if I'm making money on these, the answer is a flat out no, at best I recover what I spent. This sounds self serving but it's the honest truth: when I price these together I always use the price I paid per part (so no markup) and I'm always waiting for the absolute best deal I can get. So I've kind of already done the deal searching legwork lol. A lot of it is just lots of waiting on ebay.
I'm available in the SE Houston area for local pick up only. Austin buyers are more than welcome if they want to make the drive. At this time shipping is not an option unless you want to handle every detail of freight shipping (quote, logistics, etc). I don't have pallets, any way to weigh this thing (per Dell specs the maximum weight is 165 lb), and it won't survive UPS or FedEx ground lol. If you can work out freight to the point of where all I have to do is drop it off, you're welcome to that.
Please PM me with any specific questions.
timestamps/pics: vrtx
This is a 25x2.5" SAS tower Form factor configuration, complete with all plastics, and caster kit. Cosmetically the unit is in mint condition save from whatever dust I just need to blow out.
I'll try to keep this short and sweet:
VRTX Tower Includes:
- 4x Dell M630 Blade Servers (LGA2011-v3)(configuration detailed below)
- 2x Chassis Management Controller (CMC) cards /w Enterprise License
- 2x Shared PERC8 Raid Controller
- 1x PCIe Riser Cage (8x PCIe slots total in chassis)
- 20x Samsung SM1625 400GB SAS SSD (basically the S3700 of the SAS space) (400GB x 20 = 8 TB in shared storage)
- Dual Expander /w Cabling (combines /w dual PERC8 to offer high availability of shared storage)
- 1x R1-PT 1 Gigabit Passthrough Module
- 11x 2.5" Trays, Dell PN is NRX7Y if buyer ends up getting the rest.
- 6x internal fans, 4x blower modules
- 4x 1100W PSUs
- Locking bezel, caster kit
- 4-slots-by-1.8" SATA/SAS Backplane (1x per blade)
- 4x Intel S3700 1.8" 400GB SSD (16x total)
- 1x Dell HBA330 RAID Controller (4x total)
- 2x Intel E5-2678 v3 (12 core, 24 thread, 2.5 Ghz nominal 3.3 Ghz boost, it's an OEM part but confirmed working no problem) (8x total) (24 cores x 8 = 96 cores total across 4 blades)
- 8x Samsung M393A2G40DB0-CPB 16GB 2Rx4 PC4-2133P (32x total) (128GBx4 = 512GB total across 4 blades)
- 2x Dell 3N9XX PCIe Passthrough Mezz Card v2 (8x total)
- iDRAC Enterprise, 2x heatsinks, 16x DIMM blanks (1x per blade)
This is perhaps actually one of the best builds of these I've ever done, in my opinion, mostly because of the blades themselves. The versatility of the M630 to be able to use 4 drive backplanes make this pretty close to truly being THE lab in a box. You can do local storage (which is natively clustered) or hyper-converged/distributed file storage(vSAN, Ceph, Gluster) all in the same box if you ever get a 10 Gigabit Switch Module. You can still do HCI but you just need an external 10 Gigabit switch of course. You also get the power savings of the DDR4 and C612 chipset and the ability to upgrade to E5-2600 v4 processors later for even better virtualization performance.
Asking $5500 for this. Open to offers.
Will sell individual blades for $950/ea.
If anyone is wondering if I'm making money on these, the answer is a flat out no, at best I recover what I spent. This sounds self serving but it's the honest truth: when I price these together I always use the price I paid per part (so no markup) and I'm always waiting for the absolute best deal I can get. So I've kind of already done the deal searching legwork lol. A lot of it is just lots of waiting on ebay.
I'm available in the SE Houston area for local pick up only. Austin buyers are more than welcome if they want to make the drive. At this time shipping is not an option unless you want to handle every detail of freight shipping (quote, logistics, etc). I don't have pallets, any way to weigh this thing (per Dell specs the maximum weight is 165 lb), and it won't survive UPS or FedEx ground lol. If you can work out freight to the point of where all I have to do is drop it off, you're welcome to that.
Please PM me with any specific questions.
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