Post about building Google like servers for their school?

[jamesfed]

We can build them in about an hour if we do three at a time.

Phew fast going - took me half a day to figure out how to make the first one of my design reduced that to 2 hours (pair of mobos in one 2U case) on the second time round.
Can't wait to build some more using the new AMD A10s!

[glennda]

Phew fast going - took me half a day to figure out how to make the first one of my design reduced that to 2 hours (pair of mobos in one 2U case) on the second time round.
Can't wait to build some more using the new AMD A10s!

Which Chassis did you use?

[jamesfed]

Which Chassis did you use?

One of these - Rackmount 2u hotswap case online at X-Case
Full spec is here - Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Farm Architecture + Hardware Specs | my world of IT

[glennda]

One of these - Rackmount 2u hotswap case online at X-Case
Full spec is here - Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Farm Architecture + Hardware Specs | my world of IT

Not bad price! I've been looking at the new Intel and SuperMicro Chassis which support are a bit like blades although they only share power for a upcoming VDI project I have where rackspace is a premium. Normally I would just stick with the HP DL360's.

[jamesfed]

Not bad price! I've been looking at the new Intel and SuperMicro Chassis which support are a bit like blades although they only share power for a upcoming VDI project I have where rackspace is a premium. Normally I would just stick with the HP DL360's.

Yep nice company as well.

Why not just go with a 1U server with 2x CPUs and PCI-E for SSD

[glennda]

Yep nice company as well.

Why not just go with a 1U server with 2x CPUs and PCI-E for SSD

SD card for 3 x ESXI hosts (at current spec Gen8 360's) and and SAN - currently Equallogic

[VeryPC]

Not bad price! I've been looking at the new Intel and SuperMicro Chassis which support are a bit like blades although they only share power for a upcoming VDI project I have where rackspace is a premium. Normally I would just stick with the HP DL360's.

Are these the 2U Dual socket 4-Node Server platforms?

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - 2U Twin^2 Solutions
Intel's S2600JF Server Board - Intel's H2000 Server System - YouTube

The Supermicro also do AMD version of the platform meaning you can get 32-Cores per server node with 8-Dimms slots/CPU

What SSD's are you using in the DL360's?

I'll PM you my details if you want to talk Supermicro at a later date .

Cheers

Andy

[glennda]

Are these the 2U Dual socket 4-Node Server platforms?

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - 2U Twin^2 Solutions
Intel's S2600JF Server Board - Intel's H2000 Server System - YouTube

The Supermicro also do AMD version of the platform meaning you can get 32-Cores per server node with 8-Dimms slots/CPU

What SSD's are you using in the DL360's?

I'll PM you my details if you want to talk Supermicro at a later date .

Cheers

Andy

They would be the ones - seen the intel onces at the Open-E Training last week (I believe your a partner too?). See other post

And not using SSD's using SD cards (4/8gb) for ESXI install thats all then sans for data storage.

[VeryPC]

Indeed we are but TBH a large proportion of our servers go out to hosting industry and end up with Openfiler, Openstack or some flavor of linux on.

From memory I don't think the Supermicro have the SD card - Did the Intel 4 Way have SD on board or backplane at the open-E day ?

I sent you a PM but only just read your sig, so hadn't done my Phorium homework. Happy to talk off forum or drop me an email or PM later . Time for Bed..

Andy

[glennda]

Indeed we are but TBH a large proportion of our servers go out to hosting industry and end up with Openfiler, Openstack or some flavor of linux on.

From memory I don't think the Supermicro have the SD card - Did the Intel 4 Way have SD on board or backplane at the open-E day ?

I sent you a PM but only just read your sig, so hadn't done my Phorium homework. Happy to talk off forum or drop me an email or PM later . Time for Bed..

Andy

No problem at all. No the DL360's have the built in SD card for SuperMicros/Intel it would look towards sata doms so something like this
xitradesatadomb.jpg

[VeryPC]

Very Awesome .... Can you PM me Disti or Vendor details .

Andy

[glennda]

Very Awesome .... Can you PM me Disti or Vendor details .

Andy

I'm trying to locate them in the UK - at present I can only see them online in the US. I just googled Sata Dom to get that picture!

[X-13]

I'm trying to locate them in the UK - at present I can only see them online in the US. I just googled Sata Dom to get that picture!

Something like this?


It's not as fancy looking... but it appears to be similar.

[glennda]

Something like this?


It's not as fancy looking... but it appears to be similar.

Looks the same its just in a case. I'm trying to locate a channel partner with it!

[CyberNerd]

IBM Bladeservers have a standard internal USB slot for virtual images. I think ESX hypervisor images are circa £150 or something equally stupid direct from IBM. Alternatively a £5 usb stick and a free download works pretty well for a hypervisor!