Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Will Snow (wasnow) 
So as to 10g, it’s not like I’m going to use them for production :)

I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – the dual interface would be nice, but I can 
work around that.
I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy the 
others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so you can very easily 
connect your cloud to your network.

This allows my developers to test real multinode deploys of openstack 
repeatedly without the expense of 3 rack servers, and they can carry around the 
cloud to meetups or whereever they want to go.

There are a few tweaks to what we’re doing that are based on feedback from what 
we’ve built already. I use the NUCs as the price point is good, and Intel is 
down the street from me :)

Shameless plug: more details in our talk at the vancouver if it gets accepted.

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460

From: matt
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM
To: will snow
Cc: Christian Berendt, 
"openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>"
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack 
) ?

3)  no 10 gig.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, matt 
mailto:m...@nycresistor.com>> wrote:
i dislike 2 things about the NUCs...

1)  only a single interface
2)  no lights out management

=/

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) 
mailto:was...@cisco.com>> wrote:
Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March
(scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that.
Which would make things a bit tight for my talk at Vancouver (if it gets
accepted)

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com<mailto:was...@cisco.com>
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460






On 2/11/15, 3:33 AM, "Christian Berendt" 
mailto:christ...@berendt.io>> wrote:

>On 02/06/2015 10:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote:
>> I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been
>> quite happy with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you
>> need storage.
>
>I think NUCs are a greate choice.
>
>According to
>http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unveils-nuc-mini-pc-core-i7-broadwell.
>html
>NUCs with i7 CPUs should be released this year.
>
>More details at
>http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview.html.
>
>Christian.
>
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Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-11 Thread Will Snow (wasnow) 
Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March 
(scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that.
Which would make things a bit tight for my talk at Vancouver (if it gets 
accepted)

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460






On 2/11/15, 3:33 AM, "Christian Berendt"  wrote:

>On 02/06/2015 10:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote:
>> I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been
>> quite happy with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you
>> need storage.
>
>I think NUCs are a greate choice.
>
>According to
>http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unveils-nuc-mini-pc-core-i7-broadwell.
>html
>NUCs with i7 CPUs should be released this year.
>
>More details at
>http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview.html.
>
>Christian.
>
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Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-06 Thread Will Snow (wasnow) 
I went with the 54250 version – and it’s working great.

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460

From: matt mailto:m...@nycresistor.com>>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015 at 1:36 PM
To: will snow mailto:was...@cisco.com>>
Cc: 
"openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>"
 
mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack 
) ?

I was looking at the NUCs as well.  I think I may go that route.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) 
mailto:was...@cisco.com>> wrote:
I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been quite happy 
with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you need storage.

Great little machines, make sure you update the firmware!

We did a talk on the setup 2 summits ago, and we’re looking to provide an 
update on using them at Vancouver

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com<mailto:was...@cisco.com>
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460

From: matt mailto:m...@nycresistor.com>>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015 at 1:05 PM
To: 
"openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>"
 
mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

I am setting up a demo openstack environment to integrate with a switch stack 
for our organization.

I was just curious if anyone had any preferences on low power / low cost small 
form factor embedded devices for running openstack compute nodes on?

I was tempted to just use some beagle bones or something but the ram 
limitations do suck there.

Was curious if anyone had any preferences on this front.

-Matt

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Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

2015-02-06 Thread Will Snow (wasnow) 
I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been quite happy 
with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you need storage.

Great little machines, make sure you update the firmware!

We did a talk on the setup 2 summits ago, and we’re looking to provide an 
update on using them at Vancouver

--Will Snow
was...@cisco.com
Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
Mobile: +1-650-544-5460

From: matt mailto:m...@nycresistor.com>>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015 at 1:05 PM
To: 
"openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org"
 
mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

I am setting up a demo openstack environment to integrate with a switch stack 
for our organization.

I was just curious if anyone had any preferences on low power / low cost small 
form factor embedded devices for running openstack compute nodes on?

I was tempted to just use some beagle bones or something but the ram 
limitations do suck there.

Was curious if anyone had any preferences on this front.

-Matt
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