Computing
Requirements
for Schools to Implement ePortfolio
Hardware
For
schools with over 1000 students hitting the program:
1.
Two identical dual processor servers with minimum requirements of 1 GHz P3
chips. 2 GBs of RAM
Hard
drive space works this way:
The servers each need 10 GB drives just for operating system and
ColdFusion. Preferably a RAID 0 setup. Then for each 400 students, they need 10
GBs of storage. Because the drives are mirrored, this is not cumulative between
the 2 main servers. If each server has a 10 GB drive for the operating system,
and then each with a 40 GB drive it is actually still only 40 GBs of space total
for room for 1600 students.
Roughly
$16500.00 with 4 hard drives each – quote from DELL, with Higher Education
Pricing.
2.
The third server is for data. This needs to be a single Pentium, P3 1 GB minimum
processor with 2 GBs of RAM. RAID 5 setup, which requires 4 hard drives. I would
use 10k rpm 18 GB drives. This will provide plenty of data storage.
Roughly
$8000.00 for the data server.
3.
Rack for the servers
Approximately
$2000.00
4.
Monitor and hardware to share the monitor/keyboard between the 3 servers.
Approximately
$500.00
For
schools with under 1000 students hitting the program:
Remove
one of the web servers from the list above so that there is 1 web server and 1
data server.
ColdFusion Enterprise Server version 5.0 $3,300.00
SQL
Server Professional $2090.00
Windows
2k Server Advanced (Included
in price quote for hardware)
ColdFusion
Studio license(s) for the web person/team
$422.00
ea.
One person could easily run this configuration once it is all installed on a part-time basis. It is no different than maintaining other web applications such as WebCT or Prospero. They run themselves. But if the school wanted to make modifications and further develop e-Portfolio for themselves, then they should employ a full time employee just for this product.
Staffing
costs will vary.
One
person to maintain configuration on part-time basis – approximately $25,000
per year
One person to maintain and develop e-Portfolio – approximately $50,000 per year
Assuming
the school has a LAN that meets the needs of the college, additional bandwidth
should not be required for less than 1000 students. For over 1000 students, the
school may need to add bandwidth capacity.
Not possible to project networking costs for other schools. If they are serving e-Portfolio for over 1000 students, they should consider additional bandwidth, but the price will fluctuate depending on their particular network configuration.
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posted May 30, 2002 by J D Klein from a document provided by C. Love, Conn Coll, dated Feb. 8. 2002. Last updated 05/30/02 .