openstack

  1. J

    Ceph on C6100

    Hi, Looking for a little advise with people who has used Ceph a little more than myself! I have just purchased the following equipment 2 x Dell C6100 4 Blades in each consisting of 2 x L5640 96GB RAM 2 x 10Gb NIC Mez Cards (Waiting to be delivered) The model has 12 x 3.5" drives. I am...
  2. RandyC

    Dell C6100 used for openstack cluster.

    I have a C6100 that I want to setup with Openstack. The only decision holding me back right now is HDD / SSD choice. Should I get some inexpensive 2TB HGST drives that have been dumped on ebay recently? Or should I get 8 Intel DC S3500 drives? (Or should I get a mix of both?) Does anyone one...
  3. J

    Recommendations for cheap socket 1366 boards? (UK)

    I'm looking at the feasibility of building a small OpenStack cluster and am trying to price up some small, preferably low power, nodes to run various components (around 5 nodes total). Currently I have a dual E5-2670 server that will be cannibalised for a compute node but I'm trying to save...