<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Maciej, thanks for the reminder, you beat me to it ;)</div><div><br></div><div>To combat the ever-growing trend to completely virtualized environments I want to show people how the "Cloud" looks like in the material plane and give you a glimpse on the metal that runs the 'webs ;)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to bring:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>HP DL380G6</li><li>IBM x3650 M3</li><li>Dell R200 [1]</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>I want to talk about strong and weak points of the vendors, how they fare in procurement and demonstrate how maintenance and HW upgrades look like. If there's interest I also want to discuss general aspects of modern hardware in regards to performance/speed, capacity planning and bottle necks, power consumption etc. If you've got questions and problem cases or just want to share your war stories, please come!</div><div><br></div><div>/cc metalab-general since it might be relevant to your interests too ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Link: <a href="https://metalab.at/wiki/Devops_Meetup">https://metalab.at/wiki/Devops_Meetup</a></div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] The R200 is not really the flagship of Dell, if anybody got a spare R410/R510 which they can bring along or I can pick up somewhere before monday that'd be great to have a somewhat even comparison :) Only requirement is that it's bootable and we've got access to the iDRAC and the BIOS.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 18, 2011, at 18:05 , Maciej Pasternacki wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Because of date conflicts (especially the Big Brother Awards gala on<br>next Tuesday), this month's meetup is on next Monday, 24.10, on 19:00.<br>Michael will tell (and show!) us how the real hardware looks like. I'm<br>just back from Devopsdays Europe in Göteborg and maybe will do a quick<br>relation. See you there!<br><br>-- Maciej<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Devops mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Devops@lists.metalab.at">Devops@lists.metalab.at</a><br>https://lists.metalab.at/mailman/listinfo/devops<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>