Can we setup a call for Monday with our sales engineers? If so, 2pm PST is available. Thanks, Jason Alinen Enterprise Account Manager jason.alinen at siliconmechanics.com Silicon Mechanics, Inc. www.siliconmechanics.com Toll Free: (866)352-1173 x127 (US and Canada) Direct: (425)420-1260 Fax: (425)424-9999 Product and Warranty Technical Support support at siliconmechanics.com Toll Free (888)746-3241 or +1(425)420-1245 -----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: 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. > > > -- > > 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 > > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.856 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3154 - Release Date: 09/23/10 23:34:00
