Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow
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@dafyre said:
When do the rest of us get to play with it?
Definitely not for a week or two. Right now this is a hardware test in the NTG Offices in NY. It's not really for public consumption yet. I'm working with @Minion-Queen to look at the move to the enterprise colocation facility so that there can be more access to it in the near future.
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Turns out the boxes were only the switches and cables. The main boxes are supposed to ship tomorrow so a couple of business days yet before things will be arriving.
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The Scale cluster just arrived.
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Rails... -
Well, there are the actual rails... -
Rails are a good start.
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Cords, faceplate, and a screwdriver... and instructional things to ignore. -
And, there's the 1U node. 1 of 3 total! -
Lookin' at the guts... -
Various close-ups, for those interested. -
Some front / back views... -
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).
