Purchasing new server

[marco_marcello]

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

[kennethgillen]

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

[marco_marcello]

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

Marco