[Rack] Stallion/pony

[Ronald Cotoni]

How much do we wanna spend?  I have a feeling stallion could use some new
drives as well.


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:

> Totally valid.   I was trying to go cheap and low power for cost reasons.
>  Maybe we would not need IPMI if we could get a select team to actually go
> to the space, perhaps even monitor that it is up.
>
> On Feb 15, 2014 8:20 AM, "Ben Kochie" <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>
>> There were two reason I was suggesting the Supermicro+Xeon.
>> * ECC RAM (would be more stable)
>> * IPMI
>>
>> For a very long time we've had issues where things were broken for weeks,
>> and nobody in the space seems capable of plugging in a VGA cable anymore.
>> Having IPMI would let us debug boot issues from remote.
>>
>> I think most of the boards you suggested support VM, just want to make
>> sure we keep VM support in any replacement option.
>>
>> -ben
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>>
>>  Doh.   I suck at mail.
>>> I was thinking something significantly cheaper and lower power.  More
>>> like one of those mini it
>>> boards with 16 gigabytes of ram and spending more like 80 but on the
>>> board and processor.   I
>>> saw some nice celery 1037u boards that have TV 2 cores and usb 3.0.
>>> They also have a pic
>>> express card.   I have even seen some with dual ethernet.   There are
>>> some similar AMD fusion
>>> boards too.  The whole machine would hopefully have a TDP of under 100
>>> watts even when
>>> loaded.    What do you all think?  Something
>>> like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-128-679 but
>>> with usb 3.0 and a pci
>>> express slot.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>>>       There is a 2U case on my member shelf that was destined to become
>>> the new stallion.
>>>        It has a over-powered 2 CPU motherboard I was planning to replace
>>> with somehting
>>>       less hungry.
>>>
>>>       http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?
>>> ItemList=Combo.1519387
>>>       Combo Deal: $340
>>>
>>>       Xeon E3-1220V3 Haswell 3.1GHz 4-core
>>>       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116907
>>>
>>>       Supermicro MBD-X10SLM-F-O - uATX
>>>       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182820
>>>
>>>       2x 8G DDR3 ECC (un-buff) $210
>>>       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148770
>>>
>>>       1U heatsink (Supermicro) $22
>>>       http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101298
>>>
>>>       Total: $572
>>>
>>>       -ben
>>>
>>>       On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Casey Callendrello wrote:
>>>
>>>             The closet is clear, but I'm pretty sure Stallion has thrown
>>> off its
>>>             mortal coil. The last time
>>>             I poked at it, one of the NICs was bad, the graphics card
>>> was flaky, and
>>>             (worst of all) the lvm
>>>             volume for Pony is failing to mount.
>>>
>>>             I think it's time we pour one out for our dead homies and
>>> throw in a
>>>             low-power replacement.
>>>             --Casey
>>>
>>>             On 2/11/14, 11:56 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>>                   I should also add that I'm happy to help get it
>>> healthy again, but
>>>             as a non-regular
>>>                   user busy with my life elsewhere, I haven't been super
>>> motivated
>>>             to dive in and fix
>>>                   it.
>>>             Maybe start with a working monitor/keyboard on stallion?
>>> Last I was
>>>             there to try and fix
>>>             it, I couldn't reach the back of Susan the Rack (there was a
>>> giant 40+U
>>>             4-poster wedged
>>>             into the other side of that closet)
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <
>>> jof at thejof.com>
>>>             wrote:
>>>                   Pony has been offline for a long time. I can no longer
>>> reach it
>>>             from remote.
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Ronald Cotoni <
>>> setient at gmail.com>
>>>             wrote:
>>>                   I heard that it is having some issues and most of the
>>> people who
>>>             were
>>>                   involved with it this.  I also just saw a message
>>> about the
>>>                   next_meeting.py that ran on it which is no longer
>>> running.  Is
>>>             there any
>>>                   assistance needed getting it stable?
>>>
>>>             --
>>>             Ronald Cotoni Systems Engineer
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Ronald Cotoni
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