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I think is was about Terminal services stuff, just a stack of rubbish motherboards, RAM and SSDs chucked in a cupboard or screwed down with those metal motherboard elevators to some metal sheets. With EES and enough of them with the appropriate lowered expectations this would probably be much more attractive now.
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I think is was about Terminal services stuff, just a stack of rubbish motherboards, RAM and SSDs chucked in a cupboard or screwed down with those metal motherboard elevators to some metal sheets. With EES and enough of them with the appropriate lowered expectations this would probably be much more attractive now.

 

Yup Super Micro also do a miniblade chassis so you can run multiple custom built servers in the same chassis.

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I think is was about Terminal services stuff, just a stack of rubbish motherboards, RAM and SSDs chucked in a cupboard or screwed down with those metal motherboard elevators to some metal sheets.

 

That was pretty much it.

We've done an upgrade this year.

Now we have 10 servers with quad Intel® Core™ i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz and 32GB RAM and intel SSD's.

Each one easily takes 30-40 connections and the whole citrix 'farm' costs less than £5000 (excluding licenses).

btw, it's in an air conditioned cupboard in an ex-compaq rack.

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dhicks

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Unless you're talking about Ikea shenanigans, then it's @dhicks all the way.

 

I remember discussing a computer-in-a-coffee-table, but I don't think I remember anything about physical Google-style servers (although I vaugly remember a couple of posts about setting up our own Amazon-style cloud). I seem to remember something a while ago about Lego-based server racks - in fact, I think there was a story on the Raspberry Pi front page the other week about a whole supercomputer built from Lego and Raspberry Pis...

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That was pretty much it.

We've done an upgrade this year.

Now we have 10 servers with quad Intel® Core™ i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz and 32GB RAM and intel SSD's.

Each one easily takes 30-40 connections and the whole citrix 'farm' costs less than £5000 (excluding licenses).

btw, it's in an air conditioned cupboard in an ex-compaq rack.

 

If you're willing to share, could I have a copy of your documentation [for the setup], please?

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I think is was about Terminal services stuff, just a stack of rubbish motherboards, RAM and SSDs chucked in a cupboard or screwed down with those metal motherboard elevators to some metal sheets.

 

There was someone who had built something similar, but using long threaded rods with some spacers to hold the motherboards. I can't find anything on Google or Edugeek's search at the moment, though.

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There was someone who had built something similar, but using long threaded rods with some spacers to hold the motherboards. I can't find anything on Google or Edugeek's search at the moment, though.

 

That sounds like an example of a Beowulf cluster I saw a while back...

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CyberNerd

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Was it this one - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/64837-cheapskate-server-farm.html

 

I've also done something very simlar as well using this idea as the base - Series: Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm « my world of IT

 

Thats the one. The old servers before we put in the new i7's

 

 

If you're willing to share, could I have a copy of your documentation [for the setup], please?

Theres not much to tell really.

 

We are now mounting the boards on Lian-Li PC60 ATX motherboard Trays from KustomPC's.

The PSU's are bog standard, but reasonabbly good ones.

The SSD's are Intel 330 series 60GB

The Motherboards are Intel DX79TO

The RAM is 8* Crucial 4GB DDR3-1333

The processors are Intel® Core™ i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz

The ATX trays are secured onto rackmount trays

The power buttons and HDD strays are from old Lenovo cases.

rackmount trays go into an old compaq chassis.

Images are made from FOG

sysprep, install software remotely, add to farm

 

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

jamesfed

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

 

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

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

 

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - 2U Twin^2 Solutions

 

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.

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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

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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

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