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Servers: Database consolidation on Dell PowerEdge R810 servers
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Acquisition costs
Figure 13 details the acquisition costs.
Category Description
Dell PowerEdge
R810 solution
Server cost
One Intel Xeon Processor L7555-based
Dell PowerEdge R810 server
$31,514
Storage cost
Two arrays of Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV
storage with 16 450GB 15,000 RPM disks
$54,398
Migration planning
and execution
160 hours of staff time for migration $8,889
Total investment
Server, storage, and migration planning
and execution costs combined
$94,801
Figure 13: Acquisition costs for the Dell PowerEdge R810 solution.
Dell provided the hardware components of the Dell PowerEdge
R810 solution and their list prices. We included Dell installation
services in the purchase cost of the server.
We used our experience to estimate the migration costs. We
assume that the enterprise consolidates the 24 older servers onto
one Dell PowerEdge R810 server-and-storage solution using the
easy and efficient processes described in this document. We
estimate 80 hours of staff time for migration planning and 80 hours
to carry out the migration. We include migration of the hardware,
operating system, and SQL Server software, and the 10GB
databases we included in our testing. Migration of additional
software would add to the migration time as would any factors that
add to the complexity of the migration. We estimate all staff costs
based on a loaded annual system administrator cost of $100,000.
Operating cost savings
Figure 14 shows the 3-year operating costs and operating cost
savings of the Dell PowerEdge R810 solution for the five categories
of operating costs that we consider in this analysis.