[Gluster-users] Hardware advice?

[Douglas Stanley]

Nice, so that's two votes for silicon mechanics then :)

Doug

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Luis E. Cerezo <lec at luiscerezo.org> wrote:
> the 10g stuff is awesome. we just finished a POC with Silicon mech, (100TB)
> and we saw 300-450MB/s over 10Ge. We had no time to tune, but I am sure we
> could have pushed 600MB/s with some tuning.
> -luis
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Douglas Stanley wrote:
>
> Supermicro makes some awesome hardware. Should meet every one of your
> requirements, and is WAY cheaper than Dell.
>
> Check out:
> http://siliconmechanics.com
>
> They're a well respected reseller of supermicro hardware. I know I've
> seen some of their stuff with infiniband, but not sure about 10gb
> ethernet yet. I know you can get lots of addon cards, and they sell
> quad port 1gb cards I know for sure. If you call their sales people
> though, they'd be able to tell you for sure on 10GbE
>
> Oh, and their stuff has KVM over lan functionality (my favorite part).
> I can mount an iso from my desktop to the server in another building,
> and install an os on the bare hardware without ever physically
> touching it.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Doug
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Janne Aho <janne at citynetwork.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are looking into setting up a glusterfs cluster to store VM images (for
>
> KVM and VMware). Usually we have machines from Dell, but we haven't found
>
> any good machine to use which allows a good amount of disk space and
>
> possibility to have at least 4 NICs (we are thinking about using 10 gigabit
>
> network, otherwise we need to bond and use more NICs).
>
> Sure we could buy just off the shelf stuff to keep the cost down, but we are
>
> looking for having a good hardware support (to be sure if something breaks
>
> down, that we will get spare parts).
>
> Does anyone here have suggestion on hardware that can do the following:
>
> 1. having iDrac or similar (remote access to console)
>
> 2. at least 4 NICs which can be 10 gigabit (this for redundancy).
>
> 3. have an architecture which is supported by gluster (with other words no
>
> mc68k).
>
> 4. having space enough for a good amount of disks or jbod that can be
>
> connected to the machine (please no suggestion on Promise jbods).
>
> 5. It has to be rack mounted
>
> If suggesting something else than Dell, please give some price indication on
>
> the hardware, don't care if it's accurate or not, just that I get some
>
> understanding if it's something that can fit our budget.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your replies.
>
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