Hi Jack, This for your input on this and I will contact them as I was just about to get it, but had not done so yet.
I will have to ensure that contact them and see what else is available with Intel VT-x and EPT support , or any Intel E3, E5, or E7 CPU systems to see what might be available. Might have to find a new baremetal dedicated host provider if they do not have what I need. Thanks again, Lonnie On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Jack Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <toens.bueker@lists0903. > nurfuerspam.neuroserve.de> 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. > [email protected], [email protected] > skype: [email protected] > 406 387 4242 > 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
