Reading your Hardware, you are running an AMD rockstar, and that's great and all... but: "Joyent supports single, dual, and quad-socket systems. Any Intel E3, E5, or E7 CPUs may be used, subject to the system board vendor's socket population rules. Note that any 64-bit x86 CPU may be used; however, KVM functionality requires Intel VT-x and EPT support. Contact your system and CPU vendor for information about the capabilities of specific components." From: https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud/install/hardware-selection
That AMD, while I have not looked at it's specs, likely doesn't have the correct instruction sets to run KVM vps's. Your setup will do native zones just fine, and those are quite useful, and for many, all that's needed. But you did spec KVM VPS Systems. Hope this doesn't cause too much an issue. Jack On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 13:38 -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hi Toens, > > Thanks for your reply to my post, and for the links. > > To give you an idea as to what I currently will be testing on, I have: > > 1. Baremetal (AMD Octacore Custom Server 8 Cores / 8 Threads, 3.1Ghz / > 3.4Ghz Turbo, 32GB DDR3, 4TB SATA, 1Gbit > Port, 1 public IP ) > 2. VPS Systems ( 4 KVM VPS systems, each with independent static public IP, > with 4Gig RAM, 120 GB storage) > > My initial plan, is now to firstly install CoaL on the baremetal machine and > then try to setup on the CoaL HN an iPXE > server to allow me to be able to boot up each of the VPS systems as CN worker > nodes. All of this will be a distributed > system so I am still trying to figure out how to accomplish this goal > > Originally, I was thinking that I might have to set up a VPN across all of > the machines so that I can have the 2 > networks that are needed, but not sure now, amd I am still trying to figure > out how to achieve this test environment as > a whole for s simple design. > > One of the problems that I have just learned about from another message that > I had posted to community was that Triton > and CoaL will need a USB-Key to install as there may be some write-back data > that will need to go back to the USB and > thus it may be that converting everything to an ISO will not work for the > baremetal machine. I guess that there might > be a possibility that I could physically send the USB-Key to the baremetal > host provider to physically plug into the > machine itself to get through the HN install, as one possibility, but I am > still searching for another option as well. > > The more that I have read about the Joyent Triton Data Center (and SmartOS) > in general, the more that I realize that > this is absolutely the direction for us to go in for the project that we are > working on standing up which is still > early in development. Absolutely awesome solution for infrastructure > containers as well as docker containers!!!!! > > Cheers, > Lonnie > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Toens Bueker > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I would like to set up a distributed system with at one baremetal HN and a > > > couple of iPXE booted VPS nodes to play around with and to see what might > > > be > > > possible. Currently, I have the VPS nodes, each with a static IP and GW, > > > from > > > another project that I want to use and am currently looking at getting a > > > baremetal server from a dedicated host provider and am wondering if I > > > might get > > > some suggestions from the community. Mostly, this whole system is to run > > > docker > > > containers and Kubernetes that is being developed. > > > > As I don't know exactly what you try to accomplish and what resources > > you have at your disposal here's what I would suggest evaluating Triton: > > > > 1) CoaL: If you have an environment that allows CoaL to be run, try > > this first. You basically need just one VM with enough memory and > > diskspace in order to try most of the Triton services. > > > > 2) If you want to try a setup with more CNs, you need to be able to > > PXE-boot your CNs (or boot all of them from usb) and have basically two > > VLANs. I don't know whether a hosting provider or a lab-setup with > > Intel NUCs (like described in > > https://www.joyent.com/blog/spin-up-a-docker-dev-test-environment-in-60-minutes-or-less) > > is cheaper. > > > > Triton can run "VMs" (on a basis of kvm) and "Zones/Containers" (on a > > basis of SmartOS zones). You can provison via docker and > > docker-compose. Joyents philosophy is more on the side of > > self-orchestrating apps (using Containerpilot). > > > > If you want to run kubernetes on Triton > > (https://www.joyent.com/blog/kubernetes-the-easy-way), that would > > require setting up VMs (e. g. with Ubuntu installed in them) and then > > kubernetes rolled out on top of that. But that's a setup you could > > have on Openstack or VMWare, as well. > > > > Kind regards, > > Toens > > -- > > There is no safe distance. > > > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- -- Jack Downes Unique Solutions, Inc. e: [email protected], [email protected] skype: [email protected] p: 406 387 4242 f: 406 387 4541 ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
