I'm planning to build my own privately held on-premise OpenStack - most likely Mirantis - cloud based entirely on the Intel Xeon D-15xx SoCs. The second wave really sparked my intrigue to go forth with the Xeon D chipset.
Any thoughts/insights/ideas/hardware brands from you is very much appreciated!
Background information
Privately held and on-premise due to the sensitivity of the information contained. My cloud will contain data about healthcare and educational status of children with complex physical and/or mental disabilities that are entirely dependent on specialized intensive medical care/early intervention programs. The children are surrounded with all kinds of (non-) professional caretakers (home, school, hospital).
I'm going to develop algorithms, services and automated intervention programs to the circles around these children, in which information is aligned between all caretakers at any given moment. In my opinion healthcare, education and intervention programs must be streamlined and tailor-made for the children. Not the other way around as it is now in my country (The Netherlands).
But above all for now I want to build a proof of concept model. The OpenStack fits nicely, you can expand when required and dedicate focus on the services.
Aim/Goal
OpenStack cloud architecture
The Mirantis OpenStack distribution has a slightly different approach to the above architecture. Util node is a.k.a. the Fuel Node.
Initial setup/start with
Sincerely hoping that Supermicro is going to deliver the motherboards with the required SoCs... although they seem to be using for some of the new motherboards the slightly lower clocked SoCs according to their announcement.
Any thoughts/insights/ideas/hardware brands from you is very much appreciated!
Background information
Privately held and on-premise due to the sensitivity of the information contained. My cloud will contain data about healthcare and educational status of children with complex physical and/or mental disabilities that are entirely dependent on specialized intensive medical care/early intervention programs. The children are surrounded with all kinds of (non-) professional caretakers (home, school, hospital).
I'm going to develop algorithms, services and automated intervention programs to the circles around these children, in which information is aligned between all caretakers at any given moment. In my opinion healthcare, education and intervention programs must be streamlined and tailor-made for the children. Not the other way around as it is now in my country (The Netherlands).
But above all for now I want to build a proof of concept model. The OpenStack fits nicely, you can expand when required and dedicate focus on the services.
Aim/Goal
- Combine and develop Big Data/IoT/Business Intelligence tools and techniques
- Develop algorithms and services
- Expand cloud in near future with AI and/or Machine Learning capabilities via dedicated HPC nodes (4x Tesla M40 GPUs per node)
OpenStack cloud architecture
The Mirantis OpenStack distribution has a slightly different approach to the above architecture. Util node is a.k.a. the Fuel Node.
Initial setup/start with
- 3x Controller nodes
- Intel Xeon D1541/64 GB RAM/1.2TB Intel 750 NVMe 2.5" (via M2 adapter)
- 3x Compute nodes
- D-1541 or D-1567/128 GB RAM/1.2TB Intel NVMe PCIe
- 1-3x Storage nodes
- Most likely a flex ATX motherboard; perhaps Supermicro SSG-5018D8-AR12L
- Preferred D-1548/128GB RAM/12 HDDs 6TBs/NVMe as cache/Ceph
- 1x Fuel node/Util node (repurpose existing setup; already in my possession)
- D-1540/32GB/400GB Intel 750 NVMe 2.5"
- Not decided on dedicated network nodes
- Internal network is 10 GbE.
- Switch D-Link DXS-1210-10TS
- Dedicated storage backbone (10GbE SFP+ ?)
- Switch D-Link DXS-1210-12TS (10GBASE-T/ SFP+ combo ports)
- or switch D-Link DXS-1210-12SC (SFP+ ports)
- Any outside network/management/IPMI will be 1 GbE.
- switch D-Link SmartPro DGS-1510-28X
Sincerely hoping that Supermicro is going to deliver the motherboards with the required SoCs... although they seem to be using for some of the new motherboards the slightly lower clocked SoCs according to their announcement.
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