[Rack] Stallion/pony

[Ben Kochie]

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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