Zoran's Blog: ZBlock 100

Low cost, wheel-in cloud-in-a-box, completely pre-installed, integrated and tested:

Compute	Compute: 4 node chassis. Two redundant nodes each with: 16 CPU cores, 256GB, Dual 10GbE, 2 x 300GB SAS drives. Further expansion available for two additional nodes (just need to purchase CPUs/memory)	US$10,339 4 Node Chassis = US$4,103 4 x 8 core CPU = US$2,748 512GB Memory = US$3488
Storage	Storage: Highly available with 2 nodes, total of 16 CPU cores,192GB memory 12 x 900GB 10K SAS drives. Further expansion of 12 drive 2.5” SAS drive bays and 7 x SAS expansion drawers each with 24 x 2.5” SAS drive bays	US$8,884
Backup	Backup Appliance: redundant fans/power, 6 CPU cores, 32GB memory, 36 x 6TB SAS drives bays for total storage of 216TB capacity. 6 x 6TB SAS Nearline drives.	US$6,293 Appliance = US$4,492 6 x 6TB drives = US$1,800
VMware	VMware vSphere Essentials Plus: vSphere Hypervisor, vCenter, vMotion, High Availability, Data Protection, vShield Endpoint, vSphere Replication	US$4,495
Veeam	Veeam Backup and Replication, backup with dedupe/compression, replication with WAN-optimisation. 4 CPU sockets Standard Edition	US$3,900
Self Service Portal	ManageIQ Cloud Management Platform that provides hybrid cloud management of virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, and Amazon EC2	Free
Total Cost		Hardware cost: US$30,931 Software: US$8,395

Buy complete hardware for $50,000 including installation, trial licences installed.

Compute:

Storage – Redundant dual node configuration:

Includes two nodes for redundancy, each with CPUs/memory/dual-10Gb Ethernet. 24 shared SAS disks. Can add up to 7 additional SAS expansion drawer (each with 24 disk bays).

Expansion drawer:

Backup - 216TB CIFS/NFS Storage:

Linux or Windows 2012 with Storage Spaces and Deduplication - 216TB = $15,292, $0.071/GB. Assuming 5 years lifecycle = $0.0011/GB/month:

Supermicro Server with Dual Xeon E5-2600 CPU, 32GB memory, redundant fans/power, Dual 10Gb ethernet. 36 3.5" hot-plug disk bays, 3 yr warranty: $4,492
Drives with 5 yr warranty: 36 x 6TB SAS = $10,800