I managed to get these powered on in the datacenter yesterday. SM let me borrow 4x of their MicroBlade nodes. Two are dual Xeon D nodes on one sled and one SSD per node. The other two are single Xeon D nodes on a sled but with spots for 4x SSDs per node.
Here are the nodes getting ready for installation:
And during the install (sorry these pics stink, lighting in the datacenter is... sub-optimal for phone cameras.)
Hoping these become a Docker Swarm cluster soon.
The really cool bit about this system is that we have 6 nodes in 4 of the 14 blade spots. I think you can get up to 28 Xeon D nodes in the 3U enclosure and there are 4x 40GbE uplinks in the rear of the chassis.
Here are the nodes getting ready for installation:
And during the install (sorry these pics stink, lighting in the datacenter is... sub-optimal for phone cameras.)
Hoping these become a Docker Swarm cluster soon.
The really cool bit about this system is that we have 6 nodes in 4 of the 14 blade spots. I think you can get up to 28 Xeon D nodes in the 3U enclosure and there are 4x 40GbE uplinks in the rear of the chassis.