[Rack] Stallion/pony

Ronald Cotoni setient at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 19:55:30 UTC 2014


Spot on.  200 watts.   Is it worth it though since we are not buying
anything?


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are right.  Let me see if I can find the kill o watt.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>
>> The E5405 (harpertown), if I remember correctly uses FB-DIMMs. I thought
>> we wanted to reduce the power use. These will likely be 200+W machines.
>> Unfortunately E-waste.
>>
>>
>> On February 16, 2014 8:35:14 PM CET, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So this has been actually solved with 0 dollars.  Kellan Jacobs donated
>>> some servers to noisebridge.  One was a nice fancy Xeon E5405 with 8gb of
>>> ram and 4x 2tb hd's.  I was going to setup a raid 1 mirror with the other
>>> two drives as spares (I do not know how good they are).  What do you all
>>> think?  Also would anyone mind debian on it or should we have something
>>> else on it?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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