[Rack] Stallion/pony

Ben Kochie ben at nerp.net
Sun Feb 16 19:45:38 UTC 2014


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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>
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>Ronald Cotoni
>Systems Engineer

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