Stratus FTServer 6200-96201

gjacobse

It's been an odd week,... stressful,.. and well surprising.

Mid week, I was the receipent of a Stratus FTServer model 6200-96201.

Now,... wTh do I do with it.

this thing is set for HA,.. includes a fiber card. While it has only six drives between the two units,... it is 100times more then I will ever need.. so... what do I do with it.?

travisdh1

@gjacobse Did it come with drive caddies at least?

DustinB3403

How much capacity does each system have?

hobbit666

Use as a Coffee table?

jt1001001

Heat your house in the winter?

bnrstnr

Send it to me?

travisdh1

I'd be tempted to drop a few https://www.amazon.com/HP-804612-004-2-5-inch-Internal-SSDSC2BX016T4P/dp/B07N36SWDC/ref=asc_df_B07N36SWDC/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=319955522114&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18444010198641283209&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9015321&hvtargid=pla-683841748287&psc=1 in it.

scottalanmiller

@gjacobse oh, when you sent me a picture of this, I thought that you were taking it to a site. You OWN this unit now?

scottalanmiller

For those not familiar, Stratus is a crazy high end FT system used by places like Wall St. banks for "can't die" workloads. This is not HA, this is not fake, this is not a toy... this is true super high end FAULT TOLERANT hardware. It is two fully independent servers (yes, held physical together which is dumb) with full hardware level tolerance between them. It mirrors everything across the nodes so you can failover "anything" between them, without missing a beat.

wirestyle22

@gjacobse If I didn't know you better I'd think Crazy Eddie had something to do with this

jt1001001

@scottalanmiller We were looking at these back in the days pre vsan/storwind/"hyperconvergence" for one of our "mission critical 24*7" workloads. Butt-load expensive but the CEO at the time was just about to pull the trigger. THey did a live demo where they actually hot-swapped ram!