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- Talk with SSA and VLASS about how we actually use these remote clusters (e.g.Staging, flocking, etc)
- Buy test system
- Talk with Pueto Rico about their technical situation
- Think about getting drives from third party instead of Dell and sparing them ourselves.
- prefer 208V for us and the remote site(s)
- Install a 208V circuit for our reserved space (253T) in the server room.
- Could use PD1-B breakers 7, 9, 11
- Think about getting the same drives for the OS that we get for the data array. It's simpler but perhaps slower.
- Who is going to put all the RAM and drives in the servers?
- Work on a price spreadsheet
- Learn Ansible?
Timeline
- Buy test system as soon as practical
- Buy production system about 6 months after test system
- Receive production system about 7 months after test system
- Install production system about 10 months after test system
- Running about 12 months after test system
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