Once again the Dell store just frustrates the heck out of me. It is so braindead stupid about the limited choices it forces onto customers.
Consider:
- 1U R630 server - 8GB SDHC boot, VMWare 5.5 hypervisor, PERC H830 External RAID-6, NO DISKS
- Qty 2 - PowerVault MD1220 24-bay 2.5" SAS enclosure
- Qty 48 - 1.2 TB SAS 10kRPM drives
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For the life o' me, I simply cannot get the store configurator to allow me to build an R630 server with NO hard drives.
It doesn't need any. It boots VMWare from the 8gig SDHC cards. The disks are all external on the two PowerVault MD1220, using the PERC H830 RAID-6 controller.
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Well there is simply NO WAY the online web store is going to allow me to proceed without selecting at least 1 internal drive. I cannot even add it to the cart with no internal hard drives selected.
I need a checkbox that says: "ignore all 'errors' and really, ship it to me as configured even if the webstore designer doesn't understand the advanced concepts of what I'm trying to do"