High performance 1U network appliance chassis?

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zer0sum

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Sort of an obscure question but thought I would ask anyways :)

I am trying to find a high performance 1U network appliance chassis that supports the following features:

  • 1U form factor
  • Intel VT-d (or AMD IOMMU as a second choice), VMDQ, and SR-IOV support.
  • 2 x E5-2620 or even last gen xeon but need 12/24 cores/threads or more
  • 64GB or more ram
  • 8-12 x 1 Gbe RJ45 ports (i350 or 82599)
  • 0-4 10Gb Fiber ports (i350 or 82599)

The only one I have found is the Lanner 8893 which is basically perfect.

Any other options would be great :D
 

Patrick

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Do you need threads or clock speed? The dual Xeon E5-2430L would be easier to cool. For that application though, you are talking about specialized hardware as you linked.
 

TeeJayHoward

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A Supermicro 1022GG or 1122GG would give you 4x full height PCIe slots and a pair of G34s. That's about the only other setup I could think of that could give you the ports you need. Shame they don't have an Intel motherboard for their SC818G chassis.

Edit: Nope, nevermind. 4 chassis slots, but each riser card only has a single PCIe slot.
 
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zer0sum

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Do you need threads or clock speed? The dual Xeon E5-2430L would be easier to cool. For that application though, you are talking about specialized hardware as you linked.
I am more interested in threads as it will be running multiple virtualized systems.

A Supermicro 1022GG or 1122GG would give you 4x full height PCIe slots and a pair of G34s. That's about the only other setup I could think of that could give you the ports you need. Shame they don't have an Intel motherboard for their SC818G chassis.

Edit: Nope, nevermind. 4 chassis slots, but each riser card only has a single PCIe slot.
Not a bad suggestion at all...I need to explore whether that would work with the limited ports. Even the built-in 82576 supports SR-IOV so that may help :)

This also looks really cool..highly configurable. But is 2U.
RMS-220 Network Appliance for DPI-Based Applications - Radisys
I like it!! But it needs to be 1U.

We already have a 2U, 5U and 14U solutions using an ATCA chassis and they are ridiculously cool. This 1U is for the bottom end

Thanks for all the suggestions so far though!
 

Nnyan

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Lots of ATCA types of solutions for this but 1U is a hard find. Correct me if I'm wrong but your request really boils down to this:

VT-D: CPU choice takes care of this.
VMDq: (ex : ) Server 2008R2 Hyper-V and above with appropriate NIC takes care of this
SR-IOV: appropriate support in BIOS, OS (or hypervisor) and NIC take care of this.
Hardware Specs

The closest (that i've used in the past) I could come up with was kinda a DIY route. AIC GB101-HA (GB101-HA Specification) which supports dual E5-2400's, supports up to 384GB of ram, has a quad I350-AM4 (Intel's ARK says it supports VMDq) onboard and 3 PCIe x8 slots (for the additional NICS). That haddar mobo is built around the Intel® C606 PCH chipset which would indicate BIOS support for VMDq (since the chipset supports it).