Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow
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We are getting more opportunity to run this cluster through its paces as I start working on the Linux Admin Guide on it.
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Just found out that all of the gear is, indeed, moving to a US-based datacenter. Which one, I don't know yet, but hopefully will find out this week.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just found out that all of the gear is, indeed, moving to a US-based datacenter. Which one, I don't know yet, but hopefully will find out this week.
Too bad you don't want it UK based, I could have got you a deal here
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@NattNatt said:
Too bad you don't want it UK based, I could have got you a deal here
What kind of facilities do you have over there?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
Too bad you don't want it UK based, I could have got you a deal here
What kind of facilities do you have over there?
From co-lo to full hosting, we have several options available with different benefits etc - including live-scalable type environments etc
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@NattNatt said:
From co-lo to full hosting, we have several options available with different benefits etc - including live-scalable type environments etc
We have so much gear that we could easily populate a second facility, too bad it is so costly to ship gear from the US to the UK.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@NattNatt said:
From co-lo to full hosting, we have several options available with different benefits etc - including live-scalable type environments etc
We have so much gear that we could easily populate a second facility, too bad it is so costly to ship gear from the US to the UK.
hah well If you ever decide to have it multi-location get in touch
and yeah, we have lots of space in our DC's for expansion! -
Get us some space, maybe we will accumulate some capacity over here, too.
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@NattNatt said:
hah well If you ever decide to have it multi-location get in touch
and yeah, we have lots of space in our DC's for expansion!oooo, who are you
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@Breffni-Potter said:
@NattNatt said:
hah well If you ever decide to have it multi-location get in touch
and yeah, we have lots of space in our DC's for expansion!oooo, who are you
Hah a lowly tech that works in a big hosting company based in the UK
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The next three nodes are on their way now! The first three nodes were the SATA tier. We have an SSD tier coming now as well.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The next three nodes are on their way now! The first three nodes were the SATA tier. We have an SSD tier coming now as well.
Ahhhh... to have a budget for such things must be nice.
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I was hot and heavy for Scale.
Fast forward a month and now I'm neck-deep in planning a from-scratch VSAN cluster.
The doesn't-want-to-administer-vmware side of me is lusting for Scale, but the government-pricing-means-vsan-is-practically-free side of my boss trumps all.
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Should I add... second 10GigE switch coming too.
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We are using Dells. @art_of_shred or @Mike-Ralston would have to tell you which models, they have physical access to them.
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I wanted the Melanox 40GigE ones but no luck
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@scottalanmiller yeah I started looking at Mellanox really excitedly and then stopped when I realized I was out of my depth.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We are using Dells. @art_of_shred or @Mike-Ralston would have to tell you which models, they have physical access to them.
Interested in the model numbers. I am pushing for some Extreme switches and have been planning an upgrade and expansion for about a year including the, "It is going to be about $25K-30K" remarks several times to my boss. Get it all ironed out and just under the 30K mark after some back and forths with the vendor and Extreme and then I get the, "Wow. That is a lot more than I thought." when submitting the proposal. Waiting to hear back from the owner next week. Might have to go back to the drawing board.
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Not saying the Dells would be our first recommendation or not, I'm not the one managing them and they are in the lab so they were chosen partially for cost, partially because they are specifically tested against the Scale HC3 cluster, partially based on availability and because of the necessity of optical media. If we were doing it for other purposes, we might be on Netgear Prosafe like normal with copper connects.
