New Purchases

This is a list of new things we want to buy with our IMSS budget.

=Replace Apollo=
 * Apollo is currently on an old machine, and is slow-ish and replacement parts are impossible to get.
 * We could replace it with a lower-end fileserver (it wouldn't handle as much as athena but would handle some stuff and lots of redundancy stuff

=New webserver=
 * We could get a new machine to be a second webserver (and set up redundancy/failover for web hosting)
 * Or we could use existing Einux machine we have

=Mortals= Our current mortals cluster, well, sucks.

Use existing machines

 * We recently got a few dual opteron machines from GPS. They are a huge improvement over our current setup.

Buy new machines

 * We can get an intel core quad machine for $400 (doesn't include a case)

=Switch= We need a new switch badly. We are running out of network ports and don't have very many gige ports.

Desired Features

 * Gigabit support (a must)
 * 24 or 48 ports
 * VMPS / Cisco support to interact with our other switches
 * MAC based vlan assignment
 * Cheap

Cisco 2950

 * 24-port 10/100 switch
 * Talks with our current cisco equipment
 * $200

Dell PowerConnect 5448

 * 48-port gige switch
 * Supports port-based vlan assignment
 * <$1500

Used Cisco 2948

 * http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Cisco+Catalyst+2948G-GE-TX&hl=en&cid=1560391039938372222&sa=title#p
 * 48-port gige switch
 * Supports all cisco VMPS, etc
 * ~$2000

New Cisco 2960

 * http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833120020
 * 24-port gige switch
 * Supports all cisco stuff
 * $2000