hi, You can get nice gears on ebay for this price and do your home work on hardware similar to your production setup
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=dual+xeon+server&_sop=16&_lncat=0&_osacat=0&_from=R40&LH_PrefLoc=2&_udhi=500&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.Xquad+core+xeon+server&_nkw=quad+core+xeon+server&_sacat=0 At least, that's what I'm doing for years... Hope it helps PS: If you're really doing this @home, prefer 3U+ servers or you'll blow WAF at the very second you power it up... been there ;-) 2014-02-04 David Thompson <[email protected]>: > I have been reading over the CEPH requirements located here: > http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Ceph_Server#Network_for_Ceph > > In the recommended hardware, I get why you would want to have high end > hardware for this as it makes sense. However for testing I was hoping > something like this might work since its much cheaper hardware. I am hoping > someone can give me a yes or no that this setup would work for testing out > CEPH. > > Supermicro X 3 : > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-TN4.cfm > > This is an intel atom 8 core low power server. > 16 (or 32) GB RAM > Internal 10GB Ethernet PCI Card - Intel X540-T2 > 64 GB SSD Drive for Proxmox Boot System > 1TB X 3 LUNS ISCSI Drive exported from my storage array (1 for each > server) for CEPH Storage > Netgear 10GB Switch > > I'm trying to build a testing environment for as little as possible for > CEPH testing, but not sure if this would work or not. The supermicro server > runs Proxmox just fine, even though it states its not a supported hardware > architecture, I can run openvz and KVM without any real issues. > The limitation on the server themselves outside of being a really high > available server is its limited supported RAM configuration (32GB Max) and > atom chip. > These servers are low power and priced quite low (~$500.00) for the server > with CPU. > > > Thanks for any input you can provide me with. > > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user > -- -- Jérémie Tarot http://about.me/silopolis
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