[olug] OT: Virtualization - Server Spec's

[Aric Aasgaard]

I already scared of the $$$$ of a Cisco blade chasis without looking.

I would be more inclined to get 
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/2UTwin2.cfm
3 - 3.5" drives for raid 5 on each host.....infiniband..and 8 Gainestown's
in a 2U.
<ghettoblade>


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Roberson
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 1:41 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Cc: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] OT: Virtualization - Server Spec's

The new cisco servers look sexy... 64gb per blade!

On Apr 8, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Curtis LaMasters  
<curtislamasters at gmail.com> wrote:

> SSD Video was neat.  Awesome numbers.  What is everyone's
> favorite/best virtualization server.  I.E. Charles mentioned that the
> 1950's are limited by the disk/bus combo...what hardware has been
> kicking butt for you.
>
> Anyone have experience with the Dell R series?
>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net>  
> wrote:
>> Cali Lewis had a video on Geekbrief.tv about a guy who built a  
>> beast of
>> a box using a bunch of SSDs.  Not sure how accurate some of the stuff
>> was but it looked pretty cool.
>>
>> http://bit.ly/msRs
>>
>>    Sam Tetherow
>>
>> charles.bird at powerdnn.com wrote:
>>> I've been wanting to try a couple of the newer Ocz ssd drives and  
>>> see how they do with certain tasks, virtualization being one of  
>>> them(low capacity I know)
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>> For machine simulation-type virtualization like VMware ESX the
>>>> bottlenecks will be in this order:
>>>>
>>>> Memory
>>>> Disk - capacity and I/Os
>>>> CPU
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, that sounds about right.
>>>
>>>
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