hi all. thanks for the great feedback provided in the recent past. in the past
i've based hardware purchases for small customers on the illumos HCL. i've
mostly met with success, but have had issues with firmware and such even on
supermicro motherboards.
so for this latest small kvm project i started at:
https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Hardware+Requirements
which led me here:
http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/2013/02/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/5:161/20130218134633:82C0ABBC-79FB-11E2-B214-A90A0365DAE4/
at first this seemed like exactly what i needed. but i'm finding that the
hardware in question is getting tough to find, and is of course a bit dated. so
i did the best i could and moved on to find what joyent uses in their own
datacenter:
http://eng.joyent.com/manufacturing/bom.html
these machines are of course way overkill (and overpriced) for small
deployments, though the documentation is great. so my questions are:
1) is there an updated version of the post found on listbox suitable for small
installations?
2) which of the joyent top level systems found on their engineering docs page
would be the smartest to start from, to scale down to my needs/budget?
3) i keep seeing "don't use SATA!" but see STEC SATA MLC SSD drives listed in
the joyent builds. what do i really need, as far as SSD SLOG, for a small kvm
system? i fully expect to see Samsung listed there in the near future. :)
thanks again for all the great input; i (and my customers) appreciate it!
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