[Gluster-users] Hardware advice?

[Janne Aho]

On 25/09/10 00:36, Jason Alinen wrote:
> Can we setup a call for Monday with our sales engineers?
>
> If so, 2pm PST is available.

Thanks for the offer, but I think the shipping cost will be a 
disadvantige (don't think you have free shipping to sweden) and 9h time 
difference, but over all I guess you would give a better service than 
your swedish counterparts.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Stanley [mailto:douglas.m.stanley at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:41 AM
> To: Luis E. Cerezo
> Cc: Janne Aho; Gluster General Discussion List; Jason Alinen
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Hardware advice?
>
> 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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