Awesome! I appreciate it. I'm off on training right now so I'm just starting to catch up. I'll check out those servers and see how they compare
thanks a bunch! On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:00 PM, u235sentinel wrote: > > > So we're talking to Dell about their new PowerEdge c2100 servers for a > Hadoop cluster but I'm wondering. Isn't this still a little overboard for > nodes in a cluster? I'm wondering if we bought say 100 poweredge 2750's > instead of just 50 c2100's. The price would be about the same for the > configuration we're talking about and we would get twice as many nodes. > > Ultimately, it depends upon your job flow and how much data you have. > > FWIW we're currently using a Sun equivalent of the C2100s w/8 of the 12 > drive slots filled. You need a *LOT* of iops to make it worth while. [From > what I've seen, even people who think they have a lot of iops generally have > other problems with their code/tuning that are causing the iops. So even > if you think you have a lot, you may not.] > > > I'm curious if any other's are running Dell PowerEdge servers with > Hadoop. > > > > We've also been kicking the idea around of going with blade servers (Dell > and/or HP). > > If you are thinking traditional blade where storage is comes mainly from > NAS or SAN, you are going to be very, very unhappy unless your data set is > very, very tiny. > > Check out the PoweredBy page on the wiki. Quite a few folks list their > gear. FWIW, we're currently evaluating HP SLs and should be getting some > Dell C6100s in soon, assuming Dell can deliver the eval unit on time.
