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: 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 > -- 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
