Hi, What about this type of blades, which gives you about 12 (commodity) servers in 3U:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/microcloud Sent using https://www.zoho.com/mail/ ---- On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:01:13 +0430 Joe Obernberger <joseph.obernber...@gmail.com> wrote ---- Thank you Max. That is a solid choice. You can even configure each blade with two 15TBytes SSDs (may not be wise), but that would yield ~430TBytes of SSD across 14 nodes in 4u space for around $150k. -Joe On 8/2/2021 4:29 PM, Max C. wrote: Have you considered a blade chassis? Then you can get most of the redundancy of having lots of small nodes in few(er) rack units. SuperMicro has a chassis that can accommodate 14 servers in 4U: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/superblade/enclosure#4U - Max On Aug 2, 2021, at 12:05 pm, Joe Obernberger <mailto:joseph.obernber...@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you Jeff. Consider that if rack space is at a premium, what would make the most sense? -Joe On 8/2/2021 2:46 PM, Jeff Jirsa wrote: IF you bought a server with that topology, you would definitely want to run lots of instances, perhaps 24, to effectively utilize that disk space. You'd also need 24 IPs, and you'd need a NIC that could send/receive 24x the normal bandwidth. And the cost of rebuilding such a node would be 24x higher than normal (so consider how many of those you'd have in a cluster, and how often they'd fail). On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 11:06 AM Joe Obernberger <mailto:joseph.obernber...@gmail.com> wrote: We have a large amount of data to be stored in Cassandra, and if we were to purchase new hardware in limited space, what would make the most sense? Dell has machines with 24, 8TByte drives in a 2u configuration. Given Cassandra's limitations (?) to large nodes, would it make sense to run 24 copies of Cassandra on that one node (one per drive)? Thank you! -Joe http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient Virus-free. http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient
