Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow
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Sorry, slipped into binary there. 2 in decimal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sorry, slipped into binary there. 2 in decimal.
ROFL - OK.. that makes more sense. I was thinking, my god, what would you need 100 GB network access for, per host.
2 I'm guessing, mostly for redundancy.
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@Dashrender Yes, it is active/passive.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Is it, or is it not using a 10 GbE switch (or two) to connect all of the equipment?10GigE Dell switch on ours for the backplane. It's a dedicated node communications channel, not open to the LAN, which is also 10GigE.
Is there a redundant switch in the backplane?
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Is it, or is it not using a 10 GbE switch (or two) to connect all of the equipment?10GigE Dell switch on ours for the backplane. It's a dedicated node communications channel, not open to the LAN, which is also 10GigE.
Is there a redundant switch in the backplane?
Not at the moment on ours, but normally yes of course.
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Beginning more formal testing with the cluster now. Running through Citrix documentation on it. Time to move past the "fun" testing into more serious stuff. LOL
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So much activity, this thing is really filling up with VMs quickly!
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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.
