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    Interested in Working with the NTG Lab?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      I posted some of the details of the current lab detail up above. More will be added in the future, or swapped out or changed. It's not a static thing, but once in a datacenter the change rate will drop considerably.

      Hoping to rack an old SunFire V100 with FreeBSD too.

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      • scottalanmillerS
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        Want to see one of these bad boys or maybe even a larger system in as part of the Solaris lab. Real Solaris on Sparc with CoolThreads (Sparc T / Niagara) processors. Would not be a massive system, but it is a RISC / minicomputer for the lab and would be able to run the very latest Solaris OS and be a virtualization platform for Sparc/RISC which would be awesome for people to get to touch both at the OS and at the hardware level. Don't know any labs running this class of gear in the SMB.

        SunFire T5120

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          I forgot to mention that there would be a range of backup software and tools in the lab too, perfect for learning about those technologies as well. Physical Unitrends appliances are in the lab and we will have StorageCraft software there as well. Probably more, but those right from the beginning.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
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            It has been a month now... Any more info on this moving forward?

            If not, what about using the existing NTG Labs for something like this?

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            • Minion QueenM
              Minion Queen
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              We are waiting on a few key pieces of hardware to arrive. Once they do we will be moving everything to our Colo.

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              • brianlittlejohnB
                brianlittlejohn
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                I would be interested in participating!

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  The big new gear is "in the mail." Three huge compute and storage nodes, dual 10GigE fiber switches.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    Due to arrive a week from tomorrow.

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre
                      last edited by

                      Nice! Is this going to be done with Scale / VMware or are you going to try and cram as much stuff in the colo rack as possible?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                        @dafyre said:

                        Nice! Is this going to be done with Scale / VMware or are you going to try and cram as much stuff in the colo rack as possible?

                        Um... both?

                        Scale gear, going to do physical lab stuff first, then off to the colo with it once that testing is done.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          By the way, we are not getting a normal Scale cluster. It is, instead, a preview of the upcoming new and more powerful Scale cluster.

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                          • ryanblahnikR
                            ryanblahnik
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                            Was looking through home lab topics. Curious if there'll be an update here after the crazy holidays have passed

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1
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                              Great idea! You'd get me to bite if/when that Solaris RISC system would get put in. Yeah, I couldn't relive my IRIX days, but RISC and UNIX come close enough.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @ryanblahnik
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                                @ryanblahnik said:

                                Was looking through home lab topics. Curious if there'll be an update here after the crazy holidays have passed

                                Yes, very soon after they have passed. I've been in transit to Crete for most of the week which is exhausting. I am back online now and will be working with the lab to get some status.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Lab is up and running, I'm waiting on @Minion-Queen for the status of the move to the hosting facility.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Lab is up and running, I'm waiting on @Minion-Queen for the status of the move to the hosting facility.

                                      We have "official" word that we are getting a lab sponsor for the datacenter. Just waiting on being able to announce the details and finding out when the system is moving and to which facility it will be going. So excited!!

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                                      • wirestyle22W
                                        wirestyle22
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                                        I am very interested. This is exactly what I need.

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                                        • LakshmanaL
                                          Lakshmana
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                                          I am also interested

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Lakshmana
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                                            @Lakshmana said:

                                            I am also interested

                                            we are getting much closer to being ready, we know that the equipment is all heading to a colocation facility. Just waiting to find out which one and when we can get in.

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