Open Microscopy Environment

Hi,

I am a newbie, I was going through the FAQ's and browsed in the forum, but it seems nobody posed the same question before. Which is: If one is about to purchase an OMERO-friendly server for a campus-wide light microscopy facility , like in my case, is there any place where I can post the best quote with the specs I received from the companies so that I can have an OK and place the order being reasonably confident I am going to choose a decent hardware setup?
(I knew from laptops that not in all of them is equally easy to install Linux, I naively thought it was the same with servers )

Thanks!

Marco

Hi Marco,

Thanks for being in touch.

We have a detailed system requirements section at the OMERO documentation area of our website. This should give you a good idea of the spec required for the OMERO server itself.

From the sound of your current task - providing an OMERO implementation for a campus-wide light microscopy facility, I'd also be concerned about issues such as

* provisioning of scalable storage to the server,
* backups of the original data and the OMERO server filesystem,
* sysadmin support who can perform upgrades and keep an eye on the system(s).

And there's the usual additional server-related issues which may be dictated by where your servers will be physically located, including at least

* redundant power systems, e.g. multiple hot-swap power supply units, UPS, generator,
* redundant networking, e.g. multiple network cards with failover, multiple switches etc.

Hope this is of some use, and good luck with your implementation.

Best,

Kenny

Thanks Kenneth, especially for the link (that page somehow escaped my attention before!)

Marco