Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow
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Various close-ups, for those interested. -
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What are the system specs, BIOS version, Mainboard model.
I need to research some details on any potential bugs in the firmware to assist in troubleshooting the system.
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Rails up close, and finally, in the rack! -
Nice.
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When can we play?
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Oooh shiny. Are those Dell servers under the hood?
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@coliver said:
Oooh shiny. Are those Dell servers under the hood?
Yse, Scale uses Dell under the hood.
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@art_of_shred said:
What are those WD's sitting in? Is that a spare HDD rack thingy?
Also I can't read the label but I'll bet you anything those are WD80's, 120's, 160's, 320's. Most likely 80/160, SATA1 with dual power options (MOLEX and SATA).
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Those are 4 Dell servers from X-Byte.
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The Scale cluster here in this particular case are brand new R430 nodes under the hood.
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It's only now I realize I should have included some bogus marketing material without telling you.
Oh the possibilities...
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@JeffReady said:
It's only now I realize I should have included some bogus marketing material without telling you.
Oh the possibilities...
Yup, you missed a lot of screen shot chances there
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Getting lots of VMs built out as we get the cluster up and ready for large scale lab usage.
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Live Migrations working as we keep using the system even while the nodes update themselves.
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So what's Scale using? I assume the hardware is all dell boxes? I assume there is a VSAN? What hypervisor are they using?
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@anonymous said:
So what's Scale using? I assume the hardware is all dell boxes? I assume there is a VSAN? What hypervisor are they using?
KVM.
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@anonymous said:
So what's Scale using? I assume the hardware is all dell boxes? I assume there is a VSAN? What hypervisor are they using?
Not VSAN, this is a bit more advanced than that. It is a RAIN storage cluster using proprietary block mirroring. So no need for SAN links between nodes, the storage talks over 10GigE backplane directly node to node to handle storage replication. The VMs are on a local filesystem, not a remote one.
Hypervisor is KVM.
Hardware is all Dell. This is the newest hardware yet, so no one has it but us, it is R430 nodes.
