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. >> >> >> -- >> Janne Aho (Developer) | City Network Hosting AB - www.citynetwork.se >> Phone: +46 455 690022 | Cell: +46 733 312775 >> EMail/MSN: janne at citynetwork.se >> ICQ: 567311547 | Skype: janne_mz | AIM: janne4cn | Gadu: 16275665 >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > > > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > Luis E. Cerezo blog: http://www.luiscerezo.org fotofun: http://www.flickr.com/photos/luiscerezo/ twitter: http://twitter.com/luiscerezo/ Voice: +1 412 223 7396
