> What are my options? How much do those cost the company? Do we get 2 of them?
What options do you want? You come to me with the specifications, and I'll get back to you if you can. I'll work with you to get what you want.
If I am the one with the power to create, the gatekeeper to the virtualization cluster and with a ballpark figure this makes my life so much easier. It allows me to make my justification easier too. "Hi Manager, X needs this. I think it needs this. I'm going to setup this and evaluate, no manager I don't think your correct."
"Here's my tech specification for what I'm setting up. here's the documentation for configuration and setup and these are the results" Lets ride.
Let me give you 8x core and 64GB see how the performance spikes and go from there. I'm not stingy and always happy to give more to test performance and than decrease if it's overkill. But don't dispute if I start to take away because of.
> what you have is a bunch of 3 generation old 28 core Xeons with 128gb of RAM. Can I get access to one of them to test thoroughput?
Sure. Yes you can. Why do you think you can't?
> Lead time
As fast as you require me to setup the VM. If I have all the docs, I can fly-by and have this thing setup under a day at minimum. Heck, I'll even work no-paid overtime to get this for you. I can escalate this on the fly. I'm in the good books with the NetOps, I even know the backup-ops. Tough crowd every time to please, but I manage so.
Production lead time? Sure, probably six months to get stake-holder approval and the rest, but I'll try to get it sooner.
Prototype lead: a week.
Just give me figures and I'll do the rest. Enterprise or not. I'll push for what you want but you have to work with me. However I need the figures and documentation before I can. I can't be seen creating the documentation on my own time based on made-up figures when I have an estate of 100 VM's needing security patches. That makes me look bad and if it fails the tests, I'll get the blame.
What options do you want? You come to me with the specifications, and I'll get back to you if you can. I'll work with you to get what you want.
If I am the one with the power to create, the gatekeeper to the virtualization cluster and with a ballpark figure this makes my life so much easier. It allows me to make my justification easier too. "Hi Manager, X needs this. I think it needs this. I'm going to setup this and evaluate, no manager I don't think your correct."
"Here's my tech specification for what I'm setting up. here's the documentation for configuration and setup and these are the results" Lets ride.
Let me give you 8x core and 64GB see how the performance spikes and go from there. I'm not stingy and always happy to give more to test performance and than decrease if it's overkill. But don't dispute if I start to take away because of.
> what you have is a bunch of 3 generation old 28 core Xeons with 128gb of RAM. Can I get access to one of them to test thoroughput?
Sure. Yes you can. Why do you think you can't?
> Lead time
As fast as you require me to setup the VM. If I have all the docs, I can fly-by and have this thing setup under a day at minimum. Heck, I'll even work no-paid overtime to get this for you. I can escalate this on the fly. I'm in the good books with the NetOps, I even know the backup-ops. Tough crowd every time to please, but I manage so.
Production lead time? Sure, probably six months to get stake-holder approval and the rest, but I'll try to get it sooner.
Prototype lead: a week.
Just give me figures and I'll do the rest. Enterprise or not. I'll push for what you want but you have to work with me. However I need the figures and documentation before I can. I can't be seen creating the documentation on my own time based on made-up figures when I have an estate of 100 VM's needing security patches. That makes me look bad and if it fails the tests, I'll get the blame.