Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Tom Buskey
My intro to Openstack was someone in sales from Canonical showing how he used HP microservers and other parts from eBay to teach himself Openstack. Juju was just being introduced and at the time, the minimal recommended stack was 12 nodes. He had the whole setup in his office. 12 HP Microservers

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: My intro to Openstack was someone in sales from Canonical showing how he used HP microservers and other parts from eBay to teach himself Openstack. Juju was just being introduced and at the time, the minimal recommended stack

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Petrakis
You can deploy openstack to a single machine in a number of ways. I think this one actually makes an LXC for each instance, I just found this http://astokes.org/ubuntu-openstack-installer/ Marco's way on the other hand uses --deploy-to N to direct juju to install the charm to a specific

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Tom Buskey
Yes, it was Federico. I saw the warmup he did at BLU. It was very good IMO. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: My intro to Openstack was someone in sales from Canonical showing how he

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-07 Thread Tom Buskey
I've been using packstack on CentOS. You can deploy on just one machine and then add compute nodes easily. If you're doing more then a few or want to do HA or multiple controller nodes or customize, it's not the right way. But it works well for small setups like some of us have at home. On

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-05 Thread Henry Gessau
Thanks Peter. I had thought about using cloud instances, but I one of the things I want to run is a local media server. Containers is one of the things I want to play around with and get familiar with. I'll definitely check out juju, thanks. Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: Henry,

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-05 Thread Henry Gessau
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Henry Gessau henry.ges...@acm.org writes: I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments. I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU. Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I

Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-04 Thread Henry Gessau
I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments. I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU. Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will install just fine on many systems, but I would prefer to have confirmation

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
Henry, I remember the HP uS were used to create personal openstack clusters so I know that works. Unless you have some esoteric RAID card you're interested in anything you buy should just work out of the box. It's really desktops that benefit the most from certification because the BIOS gets

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Henry Gessau henry.ges...@acm.org writes: I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments. I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU. Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will install just fine on many

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

2014-10-04 Thread M D L
I've recently built a file server for home network. I ended up building from parts and based this on a Supermicro atom motherboard (MBD-A1SAM-2550F-O). Atom may be a bit slower than you want, but would seem to meet all of your other requirements. - Motherboard is passively cooled, so should