[Chester LUG] Anyone fancy a cluster in a box?

[Les Pritchard]

I completely agree with you, I've given them a lot of the similar caveats
along with pricing for regular rackmount servers. I'll certainly let you
know if they go for it.


On 20 May 2014 17:14, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> The thing is, although it is an easy wheel in design, what it doesn't
> account for is the cost. If you have 2 blades, you can only really fill 50%
> of your cluster if you want to keep HA restart available in case a blade
> fails.
>
> The cost per blade also get expensive if you go past an 8 GB DIMM size
>
> Anyhow, what I am really saying is that those virtual machines will cost
> an absolute fortune (relatively speaking) in cost per VM. However, as I
> said, it is an easy, wheel in, power on solution that will work for a lot
> of people.
>
> If your customer does get one Les, let me know. I would be very interested
> to see it in the flesh rather than second hand from the VMUG presentation.
>
> On 20 May 2014 10:47, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He he, well I have been specing one out for a client. So maybe I could
>> borrow theirs for a bit :-)
>> On 20 May 2014 15:43, "Stuart Burns" <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yep that's the one. I think you should buy one and do a show n tell lol
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2014, at 15:38, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is that the VRTX? Looks like an interesting box, but you're right about
>>> the price. Their 3 blades sounds tiny compared to this cluster!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2014 14:42, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone.
>>>>
>>>> Dell do a n+1 box designed to be a smb solution with storage included.
>>>> It isn't as small as that one but it comes on wheels. Only problem is I
>>>> think about 2p change from 15k
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>> On 20 May 2014, at 10:50, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting my credit card.... :-)
>>>> On 20 May 2014 10:44, "Thomas Prophett" <thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> £7.5K for the base spec orange box.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.tranquilpcshop.co.uk/ubuntu-orange-box/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 May 2014 10:39, Joe Foy <joe.foy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I understand from the Ubuntu UK podcast they will only be
>>>>>> renting them with the training.
>>>>>> On 20 May 2014 10:35, "Aaron Jackson" <aaron at aaronsplace.co.uk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That is beautiful! I'd like one for myself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure there are quite a few small businesses which would really
>>>>>>> benefit from having one of these. Nice and compact.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are they planning on actually selling them or just bundled with the
>>>>>>> training?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "Les Pritchard" <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: "chester" <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, 19 May, 2014 9:41:04 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: [Chester LUG] Anyone fancy a cluster in a box?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, those days when you think, "Ah if only I'd brought my cluster
>>>>>>> with me..." could now be over! Ubuntu's new system fits 10 servers in
>>>>>>> something you can carry around.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This was announced last week, so sorry if you've already seen it,
>>>>>>> but I like this Jobs like reveal!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Straight to the reveal:
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYdIJrJRLQ#t=13m50s
>>>>>>>
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