Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of Installation/Hardware


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Timestamp:
Oct 29, 2012 6:46:22 PM (11 years ago)
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jhickey
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    v8 v9  
    2929 * The machines must be able to PXE boot.
    3030 * The machines need to be capable of running FreeBSD 8.3.  Watch out for fancy RAID controllers or strange network cards.  Standard SATA drives and Intel NICs are what we use.
    31  * You should ideally have about 5 network interfaces on each node.  One interface for the control network and four for the experimental network.
     31 * You should ideally have about 5 Gbe network interfaces on each node.  One interface for the control network and four for the experimental network.
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    3333For our most recent buildout, we used [http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/5037/SYS-5037MC-H8TRF.cfm SuperMicro MicroCloud] machines.  We get 8 Xeon E3 servers in 3u of rack space and control them via IPMI.