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TCO Study at GSI

Spring 1999

Helmut Kreiser

GSI Darmstadt

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• Analyse of the DV division of GSI in 1999• Management consulting company

• TCO• criteria

• # OS• # Systems• # Personal• Infrastructure• LAN• Applications• Interviews

• estimate costs per system per year

TCO Study

All Costs in $ (1 $ = 2.33 DM)

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Analyse Structures

CAD

LOGISCHES NETZ

VMS -PLATTFORM

NT -PLATTFORM

PHYSISCHES NETZ

GSI-211

CATIA-AIX -PLATTFORM

LINUX -PLATTFORM

BETREUUNGMANAGEMENT

BÜRO -KOMMUNIK.

SW -ENTWICKL.

COMPUTING

EMBEDDEDSYSTEMS

TAPEROBOT

PROZESSE, VERFAHREN

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Actual Inventory

Plattform AIX LINUX NT VMS

Desktopsystems (PCs) 83 90 520 147 " (X-Terminals) 90 40 90System-Server 16 30 10 8Application-Server 30 4 5

MassStorage (Gbyte) 530 1300 300 1250

Users (cross work) 180 180 520 ---

active LAN Components 84active Workstations 1070LAN Printers/Plotters 101MAC adresses 1930

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Analysed Systems

NT : Standard system (NoName)

IDE Discs, small Ram, 15“/17“ Monitor

NT scien.: extended system (NoName)

21“ monitor, SCSI, > CPU, > RAM, Applications

Linux: extended system (NoName) 21“ monitor, SCSI, > CPU, > RAM (no monitor for servers)

Systems to be analysed:

• AIX (Catia)

• Linux

• WinNT (Office)

• WinNT Science

AIX (Catia): only CAD systems

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Costs 1

Lifetime of the componentsPrinters 8 yearspassive LAN 10 years Cabelsaktive LAN 5 yearsPC/Workstation 4 years (5 years in GSI)misc. Systeme 10 years Mass Storage robot, central AIX-SystemsLINUX-Farm 4 years

Costs / year = hardwareprice / lifetime

Calculated rental of the computing centre area + power costs = $100,- / m²m² Part RZ

PC workshop 76,9 37,28%LINUX 17,8 8,63%NT 15,8 7,66%Roboter 20,7 10,04%AIX 27,7 13,42%VMS 20,2 9,79%LAN 14,6 7,08%WAN 12,6 6,10%RZ 386,3 100,00%Restarea (GSI) 743,7

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Costs 2

• Operating Costs• Hardware Support• Software Support• License costs• WAN costs• external support

• workshops• consulting• lessons• cabelworks, paper,...

Costs AIX AIX(Catia) Linux NT LAN Common100% 12% (10%) >1 % 7% 35% 35%

• Linux Server / 4 years• Hardware (No name systems)• Disc Storage, RAID• Tapes• Racks• Monitor Switching system• Software, license (OSF Motif, LSF)

Central systems

• NT Server / 4 years• Hardware• Monitor Switsching System• Racks• MS Server License

• AIX Server / 10 years• Hardware• license• Mass Storage robot• Magnet Tapes

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Costs 2

Common costs: not attached to a OS (costs of the LAN, Printers, ...)

MAC AddressesSystems

• Operating• Printers• central Servers• Area costs• LAN

= $ 780 per System

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Costs 3

Function Common NT LINUX VMS AIXLeitung DV 1,5

ApplicationLeader 0,2Support 2,3Training 0,9CAD-Support 0,5Public Domain 0,1WWW 0,3Databases 0,7

SystemLeader 0,2AIX 0,7VMS 1,0Netz 2,2Mass Storage 0,5LINUX 1,6NT 1,8ADSM (EE) 1,0

OperatingLeader 0,2MAN, WAN, RAS 0,7Accounting, Postmaster 1,0PC-Support 2,5 0,7Printer 1,1Telekom 0,7Telefon 1,1Operating 1,0Help/Errorsupport 1,0Asset-Management 1,0

Sum 17,7 4,3 2,3 1,0 1,2

Personal

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Costs 3

to Units CATIA (AIX) LINUX NTNT 522 NT-Clients 412LINUX 190 LINUX-Clients 606VMS 248 VMS-ClientsAIX 138 AIX-Clients 430DV-Personal 1229 Systems 720 720 720

Sum 1150 1326 1132

Personal costs per System

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Costs 4

Additional common costs (only estimated) for a PC workplace = $ 3570,- per year

• (200 Working days, $ 250 per day)

• Trainee for the PC workplace (10 days in 4 years)

• Help Desk from other than DV staff personal

• systemfailure and blackouts (no exact numbers known)

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Total Costs of Ownership

Costs CATIA (AIX) LINUX NT NT scien.DV-Common 780 780 780 780System 2680 925 375 1080Personal DV-Division 1150 1325 1130 1130Personal additional 3575 3575 3575 3575ext. Support operating 2910 35 130 130Application 120 0 375 2030estimated costs ($) 11330 6640 6365 8840

(DM) 26.000 15.000 15.000 20.000

Other Companies:

• $ 2100 - 9000

• without LAN

• personal costs