[geeks] Cluster in a box? Interesting item on offer at eBay

[Lionel Peterson]

The system arrived, a few quick notes:

It was packed in custom foam, arrived in great shape, looks good as new.

It has one 1100W power supply, it has room for a second PS, assume
redundant PS operation possible.

The three Windows COA stickers were scraped off (darn it!) - I could see
the gum residue on the side.

The unit powered-up fine, it was a bit loud - not enough to drive he out if
the room when it's on, but loud enough I won't keep the system on when not
needed. Think DustBuster-type handheld vacuum.

As shown in the system photos there are two LAN ports, BMC & IPMI share the
ports. The consensus is that BMC/IPMI implementations suck, I haven't tried
them yet.

It is a C6005 chassis.

I'm gonna put a dedicated KVM on each node, and that will leave one USB
port available for booting off USB/USB DVD. I think I'm going to get a
micro USB drive to put inside each blade to install a bootable OS image.

That's it for now,

Lionel

On Friday, February 7, 2014, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'll either limit usage to cooler night time operation or invest
> in a big fan... It won't ever be a 24x7 machine for me, just an on-demand
> play area.
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Feb 7, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > The Dell cloud machines may well be meant for warm operation.
> >
> > I'd be tempted to build an insulated closet with a wall mounted AC for
> > the servers in that case.
>


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Lionel Peterson
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