ServerBear Specs on Scale HC3
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@scottalanmiller said:
For those wondering, a single starter three node HC2000 cluster can run 64 VMs of this size in HA mode and 96 VMs of this size without HA. Each additional node would add 32 VM capacity.
What sort of price for a 3 node set-up?
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@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
Yes, $25K is the MSRP on the starter unit.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
Yes, $25K is the MSRP on the starter unit.
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
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@hobbit666 said:
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
New units are right around the corner so don't want to say for sure, but the HC1000 and HC2000 clusters are both 12x SATA drives in RAIN throughout the cluster. So the performance varies a little but the IOPS are more or less what they are, you can see those above. The capacity is around 21.6TB RAW.
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Currently the HC1000 is 7200RPM SATA and the HC2000 is usually 10K SAS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@hobbit666 said:
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
New units are right around the corner so don't want to say for sure, but the HC1000 and HC2000 clusters are both 12x SATA drives in RAIN throughout the cluster. So the performance varies a little but the IOPS are more or less what they are, you can see those above. The capacity is around 21.6TB RAW.
I don't know what RAIN is - so what is the usable storage?
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@Dashrender RAIN = Redundant Array of Independent Noodles...
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@RojoLoco said:
@Dashrender RAIN = Redundant Array of Independent Noodles...
Mmm, noodles, it's past my lunchtime.
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@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
They have to be redundant. Eating JBON is much less satisfying.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
Great, now I want redundant tacos.
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@coliver said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
They have to be redundant. Eating JBON is much less satisfying.
You win this thread... we will be sending you an award soon.
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It's oddly satisfying to know that you can relate RAID to almost anything... we had a hamster thread not too long ago as well.
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What are the specs on the servers?
I am trying to think of how you would create a poor man's cluster....
Couldn't I just create a XenServer Cluster with Xen Orchestra, and get the same thing?
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@Dashrender said:
I don't know what RAIN is - so what is the usable storage?
It's mirrored, so cut it in half
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@hobbit666 said:
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
New units are right around the corner so don't want to say for sure, but the HC1000 and HC2000 clusters are both 12x SATA drives in RAIN throughout the cluster. So the performance varies a little but the IOPS are more or less what they are, you can see those above. The capacity is around 21.6TB RAW.
I don't know what RAIN is - so what is the usable storage?
RAIN is Redundant Array of Independent Nodes. The redundancy and/or mirroring (both in this case) are done at the node level, not at a disk pair level. So in many ways, like capacity, it acts just like RAID 10, but the performance balancing and survivability is different.
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@Dashrender said:
so what is the usable storage?
Outside of the Scale world, there are RAIN systems that are not mirrored, so RAIN itself does not mean a specific utilization rate.
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@aaronstuder said:
What are the specs on the servers?
The HC2000 in question (we have the fastest one that there is, this is the very latest unit with the Winchesters, technically an HC2100) are built on Dell R430 single CPU nodes. 64GB of RAM per node.
