Hi guys,
I'm planning now to replace all my Dell R710 boxes which are 5-6 years old with dual socket quad core cpus, lagging a lot these days and consuming a lot of power. I'm considering supermicro kit, and actually I've noticed that are a few more manufacturers around but I'm still not sure about their reliability, so perhaps my options for something that is tested and widespread would be supermicro. I used some HP kit along the way, but to be honest I got a bit annoyed how they deal with support and how everything is propriety and closed from all angles.
My idea is to get some 4 or 5 R630 boxes with 2x 18core (E5-2695) cpus which seem to be a good balance between price and performance, this will replace about 11x R710s that are consuming a hell lot of electricity and not offering that much CPU performance. I considered the R830 to consolidade more with 4 sockets, but the prices are 6 times what a R630 costs, not worth it.
I'm considering some Supermicro kit as well, but still undecided. I would welcome suggestions, I'm open minded to anything these days.
I'm using 10gbit network and a couple of boxes running ZFS on debian which so far has worked very well, perhaps later on I'll migrate to infiniband 56gbit using RDMA as I expand and get the storage boxes filled with NVME SSDs.
What are your thoughts? I'm using VMware at the moment, but also I'm planning to start migrating things to another hypervisor, perhaps KVM as costs with VMware are going to far up, and Hyper-V even though has more advantages now, may become what VMware is now in a few years, so perhaps time to move to something more open.
I'm planning now to replace all my Dell R710 boxes which are 5-6 years old with dual socket quad core cpus, lagging a lot these days and consuming a lot of power. I'm considering supermicro kit, and actually I've noticed that are a few more manufacturers around but I'm still not sure about their reliability, so perhaps my options for something that is tested and widespread would be supermicro. I used some HP kit along the way, but to be honest I got a bit annoyed how they deal with support and how everything is propriety and closed from all angles.
My idea is to get some 4 or 5 R630 boxes with 2x 18core (E5-2695) cpus which seem to be a good balance between price and performance, this will replace about 11x R710s that are consuming a hell lot of electricity and not offering that much CPU performance. I considered the R830 to consolidade more with 4 sockets, but the prices are 6 times what a R630 costs, not worth it.
I'm considering some Supermicro kit as well, but still undecided. I would welcome suggestions, I'm open minded to anything these days.
I'm using 10gbit network and a couple of boxes running ZFS on debian which so far has worked very well, perhaps later on I'll migrate to infiniband 56gbit using RDMA as I expand and get the storage boxes filled with NVME SSDs.
What are your thoughts? I'm using VMware at the moment, but also I'm planning to start migrating things to another hypervisor, perhaps KVM as costs with VMware are going to far up, and Hyper-V even though has more advantages now, may become what VMware is now in a few years, so perhaps time to move to something more open.