[Rack] Stallion/pony

[Ronald Cotoni]

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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