HP / HPE Moonshot Unofficial Reference Guide

[Patrick]

Patrick updated HP / HPE Moonshot Unofficial Reference Guide with a new update entry:

Added two new Moonshot cartridges

Added Xeon D 4 core and 16 core m510 cartridges with part numbers. Also added line for future cartridge (confirming publicly available information)

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[b3nz0n8]

HPE Moonshot Family (2016)


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HPE Moonshot Chassis:

• Moonshot 1500 (45 server blades)
• Moonshot 400 (4 server blades)
• Moonshot 100 (1 server blade)

HPE Moonshot Blade/Cartridges :

• m300
• m350 Intel Atom
• m400
• m800 Arm
• m700 AMD w/ GPU
• m710p Intel Xeon E3-1284L v4 “Broadwell-H” with Iris Pro P6300 GPU
• m700p AMD w/ GPU - 2H 2016
• m510 Intel Xeon 16 cores - ( Intel Xeon D "Broadwell-DE" 2.4GHz, 8 core) 2H 2016
• m710x Intel Xeon w/ GPU ( Intel Xeon E3-1285L v5 ) - 2H 2016

HPE Moonshot Blade/Cartridge m710x



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The new HPE Moonshot m710x offers a significant graphics performance improvement—up to 30%—from its predecessor the m710p. The HPE m710x also simplifies deployment of any solution with a full HPE iLO remote console. So, deploying any operating system for a Citrix workload solution is just flat-out simple.

Citrix and HPE Moonshot Mobile Workspaces featuring the m710x!

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HPE Moonshot Blade/Cartridge m510 ( Intel Xeon D "Broadwell-DE" 2.4GHz, 8 core )

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[Jerry Renwick]

Videos (23)

Introducing HP Moonshot HTML Jun 2013
Meet the Innovators HTML Jun 2013
HP Moonshot Discovery Lab HTML Jun 2013
HP Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem HTML Apr 2013
HP Moonshot Chassis - Remove/Replace Videos HTML Jul 2013
HP Customer Self Repair Services Media Library: HP Moonshot Chassis HTML Jul 2013
HP Moonshot Networking - Getting Started HTML
HP Moonshot Networking - System Internal and External Connectivity HTML
HP Moonshot Network Management - How to identify your Hardware and Firmware via the Chassis Manager HTML
HP Moonshot Network - Updating your Firmware HTML
HP Moonshot Network - Connecting to the Virtual Serial Port (VSP) HTML
HP Moonshot Network - Switch Families HTML
HP Moonshot Network - Adapters, Cables, and Splitters Overview HTML
HP Moonshot Network - Connectivity and Port Setup Overview HTML
HP Moonshot Network Loops HTML
HP Moonshot High Availability Switch LAGs HTML
HP Moonshot - Creating a PXE Server HTML
HP Moonshot - Modifying PXE for the HP Moonshot Console HTML
HP Moonshot - Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Overview HTML
HP Moonshot - VLAN Configurations HTML
HP Moonshot - Port Mirroring on a Switch HTML
HP Moonshot - High Availability - Stacking Switches HTML
HP Moonshot - Server Cartridge LAG Setup HTML

White Papers (19)

HP Moonshot: An Accelerator for Hyperscale Workloads PDF 564 KB May 2013
HP ProLiant Moonshot System with NGINX Plus: Workload characterization and performance analysis for Web serving solution PDF 1.8 MB Dec 2013
Deploying NGINX Plus on HP ProLiant Moonshot Server Cartridges: Reference architecture PDF 936 KB Dec 2013
High-efficiency virtualization solution for Web hosting; Best practices for deploying Parallels Containers on HP Moonshot System PDF 755 KB Jul 2014
Deploying Microsoft IIS 8 on HP ProLiant m300 Server Cartridges PDF 500 KB Feb 2014
HP ProLiant m300 Server Cartridge and Microsoft IIS 8: Workload characterization and performance analysis for Web-serving workloads PDF 5.64 MB Feb 2014
HP ProLiant m300 Server Cartridges with NGINX Plus: Workload characterization and performance analysis for Web serving PDF 6.2 MB Mar 2014
Deploying NGINX Plus on HP ProLiant m300 Server Cartridges: Reference architecture PDF 1.9 MB Mar 2014
HP Moonshot for MongoDB: Performance analysis of MongoDB on HP ProLiant m300 Server Cartridges PDF 356 KB Aug 2014
HP Moonshot with ProLiant m300 Server Cartridges: Web infrastructure in a box PDF 1.32 MB Oct 2014
Video processing on HP ProLiant m710 Server Cartridge and Vantrix Media Platform PDF 804 KB Oct 2014
Efficient deployment of virtual network functions on HP ProLiant m800 PDF 583 KB Oct 2014
Performance evaluation of mobile application delivery: HP Moonshot for Citrix XenApp PDF 3.24 MB Nov 2014
WikiBench performance using KVM-based virtualization on HP ProLiant m710 Server Cartridge PDF 885 KB Nov 2014
HP Big Data Reference Architecture: Overview PDF 834 KB Dec 2014
HP Big Data Reference Architecture: Hortonworks implementation PDF 1.83 MB Dec 2014
HP Big Data Reference Architecture: Cloudera implementation PDF 1.94 MB Dec 2014
DataStax Enterprise on HP Moonshot System with HP ProLiant m710 Server Cartridges PDF 855 KB Dec 2014
External storage solution for HP ProLiant Moonshot Servers via iSCSI PDF 6.53 MB Dec 2014

Wow, so many information, thanks !

 

[Patrick]

Adding our video of the HPE / HP Moonshot web administration GUI

 

[William]

Pretty cool. Thanks for the video

 

[mcerveny]

Also 2 different chassis available: (1x) EL1000 (referred as moonshot100) and (4x) EL4000 (referred as moonshot400)
HPE Edgeline EL1000 Converged Edge System
HPE Edgeline EL4000 Converged Edge System

See also:
hpe moonshoot Archives - Poppelgaard - blog about Remote Graphics (Citrix, VMware, Microsoft) and Visual Computing

XenServer also support 3d-accelerated virtualization of Intel GPU (m710x, Iris Pro, GVT-g):
X Marks the Spot: XenApp, XenDesktop & XenServer with Intel Xeon & HPE Moonshot! | Citrix Blogs
We Choose to Go to the Moon! | Citrix Blogs

 

[Casper042]

Moonshot v2 - AKA the Edgeline 8000 has been announced:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches platform to unleash real-time processing at the telecommunications edge

The picture shown about half way down the page is a 4 Bay Half Width Chassis.
So you can combine two of these side by side on a special shelf and get 8 nodes.
Shown in the picture are 2 single height nodes and 1 double height node.


Also a note related to above, only the m510 and the m710x are supported in the EL1000 and EL4000 Chassis.
Only Cartridges with a full blown iLO are supported because there is no Chassis Manager in those 1000/4000 designs.
The iLO Handles the Power and Thermal monitoring.

 

[Evan]

Single scalable cpu’s
Let’s see how this works but I don’t exactly see it selling like hot cakes.

 

[PigLover]

The have a target market for the single-socket scaleable with customers who have specifically asked for that. It is a good product for that customer group (though not clear that the application will sell enough to make it worth production & support).

 

[Casper042]

(though not clear that the application will sell enough to make it worth production & support).

As noted in the link, 5G enablement is pushing a decent amount of compute to the Edge, which is often the cell tower itself.
There are millions of cell towers.
Assuming only a 10% penetration rate and 2 nodes per tower for redundancy, that's still anywhere from several hundred thousand to millions of units.

 

[Evan]

As noted in the link, 5G enablement is pushing a decent amount of compute to the Edge, which is often the cell tower itself.
There are millions of cell towers.
Assuming only a 10% penetration rate and 2 nodes per tower for redundancy, that's still anywhere from several hundred thousand to millions of units.

But I don’t know what telco uses HPE or similar in these roles, at least what I have seen they are using either telco branded or purpose built by oem quanta, Winstron, inventec etc

Now acting s bit ignorant for a moment since I understand some reasons, what exactly are these machines doing in a 5g network ? I know some functions that use compute on the edge coming but as far as I am aware it’s not exactly related to 5g itself.

 

[PigLover]

There exist Telco's using HPE for applications like this. Big ones... Edgeline 8000 was developed to their specs.

The product line economics are still a bit of a question. @Casper042's "millions" of potential sites is likely an overstatement (but a longshot, actually).

 

[Patriot]

Moonshot v2 - AKA the Edgeline 8000 has been announced:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launches platform to unleash real-time processing at the telecommunications edge

The picture shown about half way down the page is a 4 Bay Half Width Chassis.
So you can combine two of these side by side on a special shelf and get 8 nodes.
Shown in the picture are 2 single height nodes and 1 double height node.


Also a note related to above, only the m510 and the m710x are supported in the EL1000 and EL4000 Chassis.
Only Cartridges with a full blown iLO are supported because there is no Chassis Manager in those 1000/4000 designs.
The iLO Handles the Power and Thermal monitoring.

You got me excited till I saw it... Not moonshot, just a hardened Apollo multi-node chassis.
Same sled design as the Apollo 2000, those are 2u 4 half width nodes. and can also do double thick nodes for GPU/FPGA acceleration. Half width chassis's is new, that style node design is not.

 

[Ouraing]

As noted in the link, 5G enablement is pushing a decent amount of compute to the Edge, which is often the cell tower itself.

While this is true I know that what we are doing is using white box x86 standard rack mount gear running Kubernetes & OpenStack for all the containers - we are actively avoiding these types of vendor specific solutions at the edge.

 

[barmalej]

Inherited couple of brand new m510 modules. Not sure what to do with them... apparently they don't come with heatsinks from the factory. There is only one seller sells them on ebay for $300/piece. Any idea where else to get them for less?

 

[Scott Laird]

Arghh. I shouldn't have read this. M510s and EL4000 chassis have dropped in price enough that I couldn't resist ordering a set to replace the last pre-Broadwell systems that I have left. Presumably a generic heat sink can be made to work with the M510s, depending on clearance, etc? Worst case, for $300 each it'd be trivial to design something that'd work well enough and pay to have a handful of them custom machined online.

 

[Scott Laird]

Does anyone have a M510 with a heatsink that they can take a picture of? I can't figure out what it's supposed to look like. HP has a drawing (HPE ProLiant m510 Server Cartridge) that shows it being huge and extending over the top of the DIMMs. But they also have a picture (HPE ProLiant m510 Server Blade | HPE Store US) that looks totally different; that's oriented the other direction and much smaller. The one on ebay (HP ProLiant M510 Extended CPU Heatsink 867458-001 - Tested - Free Shipping | eBay) doesn't look like it matches either of those.

The best bet is probably just to find a heatsink in roughly the right size and height with the correct screw pattern and vane orientation and live with it not quite performing as well under 100% load in an overheated environment.

 

[barmalej]

Wondering if we could organize a group buy directly from HP...

 

[Scott Laird]

FWIW, the heat sink mounting holes are in a 59x46mm rectangle. The mounting holes are 3.7mm each and just go through the board with no threads. That's about right for a #6 screw, or an M3 will fit with a bit of wiggle room.

 

[Scott Laird]

There's only about 10mm of height clearance, and the fins on the heat sink need to be oriented in the 59mm direction. Unfortunately, it looks like Intel's "standard" heat sink for Xeon Ds has a 56x38 mounting pattern, not 59x46. A quick search online doesn't find anything ready-made that's compatible, but it looks like I can get some custom-made for around $35 each, quantity 5. So not *cheap*, but in a totally different price league than the real thing on eBay.