Interested in Working with the NTG Lab?
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I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this, sounds like a really interesting idea!
Especially since I've been wanting some hands-on experience with Scale hardware...
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@WingCreative I'm ready to see their 5.x series firmware (I forget what they call it now, lol). Their 4.3 series was awesome!
My buddies at my last job are tyring to figure out how to do 4.3 -> 5.x since it is a destructive upgrade. O.o
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I like the idea, may be there can be a catalog which can be published for us to know whats available, and probably post results/how to if interested here in ML with the project details.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I would be interested in participating!
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The big new gear is "in the mail." Three huge compute and storage nodes, dual 10GigE fiber switches.
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Due to arrive a week from tomorrow.
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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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@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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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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Was looking through home lab topics. Curious if there'll be an update here after the crazy holidays have passed
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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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@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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Lab is up and running, I'm waiting on @Minion-Queen for the status of the move to the hosting facility.
