On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:36 -0800, nate wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 1/8/2010 11:41 AM, nate wrote: > >> Ray Van Dolson wrote: > >> > >>> Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs? > >> > >> Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M. > > > > I think you are confusing it with something else. Somewhere I saw that > > these list around $400k for 80TB - but the way IBM pricing usually works > > is that you get volume discounts or you give them someone else's quote > > to get the price down. > > Depends on the config > > # Up to 21 CPUs > # Up to 72 Gbps internal switching capacity > # Up to 120 GB cache memory > # Up to 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth > # Up to 180 VHDSR (Very High Density Slower Rotational), 1 TB, 7200 rpm disks > # Up to 24 Fiber Channel ports offering 4 Gbps, 2Gbps or 1 Gbps multi-mode > and single-mode support > # Up to 6 iSCSI ports offering iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet connectivity --- Nate, Just asking is the fiber ports BiDirectional or Directional or can they support a Bond that is BiDirectional of 4GB/s or can they be trunked into 16GB/s? Bidirectional. I need about 24 GB/s banwidth sustained, yes per second. Also what type of sparse file I/O you get . I see you stated multimode. Some don't classify that as true BiDirectional Bonding. John