== Attendees ==
Chair: Chris Shepherd
Community Rep: Ian Jackson
AMD: Aravind Gopalakrishnan
Citrix: Lars Kurth
Intel: Donald D Dugger
Oracle: Marcos Matsunaga
Verizon: Don Slutz (Lead)
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Chris will set up new meeting invite with new dial in details and Lars will cancel the old one
== Actions ==
All closed
== Agenda ==
=== Discuss Don's Quote ===
Earthlink : Fully fledged data centre (see previous mail)
Cost breakdown:
- Setup: $935.00
- Monthly: $825.00
- Includes Internet
- There is also an additional charge of 19 cents per kWh (needs to be confirmed)
Unclear: Taxes
Don is also talking to a small consultancy re Allnet computer solutions (4-5 official employees). No hourly rate yet.
Lacking: Sysadmin (to be provided by Allnet computer solutions)
Lacking: Backup (assuming Allnet computer solutions would do backup)
Don Dugger: what backup do we need?
Ian J: Most of the machines will not need backups, but we probably only need "control plane machines/VM" and "machines which keep logs and configs" to be backed up. Maybe only need to backup 2-3 physical hosts
[Action] DonS to confirm power cost and taxes
[Action] Ian to speak to Allnet about requirements after an e-mail introduction by DonS
=== Ian's Proposal (http/www.jump.net.uk/) ===
Small company (1-2 employees, Ian knows proprietor personally) which provides hosting consulting services. They are a re-seller of Telehouse (http://www.telehouse.net/) and provide support / consultancy
Quote structured differently to Don's : Jump only charge for power consumption (
According to Ian’s initial calculations we are looking at GBP 1-2L per host per year
To get bill size we need to estimate power consumption – aka establish a power budget
Also do consultancy / sysadmin support : GBP 50 per hour
* Steady state a few hours per week
* Set-up a week or two week's work
Also do have back-up facilities
Jump prices may be higher that the budget
[Action] Ian and Chris cost put together power budget based on original mail from Ian
[Action] Ian spec out detailed proposal (based on 24 servers and power budget)
[Action] Don spec out detailed proposal (based on 24 servers and power budget)
Costing basis:
* 4h per week continuously for consultancy /sysadmin
* 100h for set-up
=== Budget ===
We do have the following line-items in the budget:
* COLO cost per quarter: USD 12K (USD 4K or GBP 2.38K per month)
Remote admin and support of environment: USD 11.25K (3.75K or GBPO 2.23K per month).
=== Hardware ===
In previous conversations, the Linux Foundation indicated that it would get heavy discounts on hardware.
[Action] Lars to follow up with LF on finding out HW discounts. CC list (to happen in parallel with power budget)
