Recent content by Kasher_Khan

Apparently one needs a mini-display port 1.4 to HDMI 2.0 adapter to drive a 4k display at 60Hz. Something I am told is not readily available in the market at the moment. On the other hand, I am only trying to run the display at 1080p which should be possible with the active adapters I am...

I am trying to run at 30hz... the resolution doesn't matter though. If I can downsize to 1080p it wouldn't matter for content that I am planning on playing. Again this is video footage that is not shot at very high res. The reason for getting 4k TVs to being with was because they physically...

We have a setup that is meant to be used as advertising. This consists for 4 X 4K Visio 55" LCD TVs mounted as a quad. We need to play some video on it that we need to extend to all four displays. I am trying to run two XFX R9 280 in a desktop. Each has 2 mini display ports (Each card i.e). I...

Thanks for the suggestion. This isn't exactly what I am looking for (since we don't want to divide the workspace we have). We are already maximizing to each monitor individually but this has other benefits that I previously didn't think of.

We have an setup at our office with 6 displays (LG LCD TVs). I am using a Radeon 7870 from visiontek with 6 mini-display ports to drive the displays. We were having a lot of issues converting the signal to HDMI using adapters. After a lot of troubleshooting we realized that the adapters were...

Child of Wonder, Thanks for your suggestions. What you are saying makes a lot of sense, but at some point I have to make a decision on config and stick with it. So the config I have provided is the final one for us. I doubt we have the work loads to fully appreciate even what we have configured...

Ok. just asked EMC to double the fast cache and instead of 6 x 400GB SSD, well get 6 x 200GB SSD. seems like a better compromise. Total cost 60K.

My understanding is that the 5200 can do max of 600GB. Currently we have 150GB useable configured for fast cache between 3 SSDs. I raised the question of using maximizing fast cache for the money but the storage engineer seemed to think that we had enough fast cache to cover us. Even when i...

Ok. EMC came back to me with a number for adding more ssd to tier1 storage. Their number $17000 for 6 SSD drives in tier I with 1.5 TB useable storage Does that seem like money worth spending? the existing config is 3 SS drives in fast cache (150GB), 2.1 TB of usable storage 10K SAS (tier...

just asked EMC to add more SSD to create Tier 1 based on Flash and add installation professional services. I think I have made my decision. EMC VNX5200 it is..

Update from Vendors: So i have the final numbers for both vendors (EMC was holding out big almost 50% discounts as expected) Note: We are going with a pair of 10Gig Cisco nexus for the access layer for either case. Compellent SC4020 $70k VNX 5200 $41k or VNX 3200e $33K with my ~85K...

Like I said Dell is our primary vendor for Servers. We are a complete Dell Shop. EMC because we have client projects that we support that heavily deploy EMC products. At this point any number of other products for NetApp, HP etc would fit the role. I had to pick two that I have the...

Agreed. We are 10% CPU and 75% Mem constrained. No VDI right now though. But again with a 10 Gig network and 70% of the traffic being Reads, SAN seems like the way to go. I am not arguing that VSAN is not a good solution. it's just not for us at the momenent. We are concerned about picking...

I agree with your statements about the VAR\Sales relationship. Not all VARs are the same and not all sales guys are trying to be honest. There is always the if you get this by end of the month you qualify for our super discount going on. VSAN seems like it is a solution designed for people...

Thank you all the comments so far. My budget was actually 50k (excluding the switches for the access layer). We are working with a VAR for EMC, We are Dell partner so don't need that. The reason for choosing only two vendors for this is because we are working with EMC on other...