So this will be deployed for customer sites. I dont think they will be happy with second hand stuff from ebay š For my personal stuff i would have been happy with that though.
You can basically get rack mount level performance from:
Supermicro SuperWorkstation Tower Servers
Lenovo Thinkstation P Series Server Towers
HPE ML series Tower Servers
Dell Precision Tower Workstations
In your situation, Iād be looking at ebay, serversupply, or other used hardware resalers that offer 2 generations back hardware. Used DDR4 based systems are abundant and cheap enough, go that route.
I have one in the lab at office. Were abt to be thrown out. Nursed it back to life somehow. Good to play around plus company foots the electricity bill so win-win.
Not really. Just has to run till at least 5years at least. Since this will be deployed at customer site, pine64 and android both are not feasible. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Your use case sounds like something a nuc or sff from minisforum could handle, but if you want ācheapā and āsmall enterprise,ā both ambiguous terms, the supermicro superservers should fit the bill.
Budget is not an issue actually. This is going to be deployed for customers but i want to it to be as cheap aspossible to get them maximum value for their money. Software stack is going to be minimal. Probably alpine linux or ubuntu server. Spec wise i think even an i3 level cpu is fine. Ram 8gb, hard disk 256 gb ssd should be more than enough. Dont require any fancy wireless stuff like wifi and Bluetooth.
Youāre going to need to be more specific about your use case, because if you say āenterprise gradeā Iām going to say āpoweredgeā, and those are not at all small.
I know. I felt while writing the post that this feels wrong writing those words in same sentence. The scenario is that we would deploy the hardware on customer premises so it has to be supported and very reliable(hence enterprise grade). But i personally think that all enterprise grade hardware is way overkill for running ansible playbooks. So was trying to see if there is an intersection point between these opposite requirements.
Are you going to claim that you play 400 games, let alone 1000? Besides, you can always use windows in a VM and do GPU pass-through. But i guess the convenience of windows is hard to give Only time will tell when people will get fed up of taken for a ride by corporations.
Source? I game a lot on Linux and have only ever found two games which I couldnāt play on Linux. Genshin and valorant which have incompatible anti-cheats.
Thatās not to say that most games which have anticheats donāt work. A lot of them Iāve tried do work like helldivers 2, ow2, titanfall 2.
Then this discussion doesnāt apply to those people. I donāt like the argument that Linux isnāt ready for mainstream yet but the reasons quoted are often some game that is itself a niche.
Edit: this is why I specifically said 90% use cases in my previous comment.
A fifteen minute nap may help you get some rest. If you have trouble falling asleep fast, you can use binaural beats if it helps. Sometimes I lay down for a 15 and only end up getting 5 min of actual unconsciousness but it makes a world of difference when you have to clock back in less than 2 hours.
Can anyone weigh in on whether any of these can be used for a cluster?
I use VMware in my homelab via vMUG, and Iām sure thatās going to get destroyed next, so Iām looking for an alternative that can allow for running VMs across hosts using shared storage with migrations between hosts. Iād prefer FOSS, but the only hypervisor I know supports all of this right now is hyper-V. I really REALLY donāt want to use hyper-vā¦ Most of my workloads are Linux, with a handful of Windows servers that I use for an internal domain and testing.
From the brief Google searching Iāve done it appears to be possible, though, Iām not sure if proxmox skills will help me professionally. I used VMware before because I needed to learn VMware esxi and vcenter. I know it fairly well at this point.
I want to target a hypervisor solution used in large companies, Iām not sure thatās proxmox. Currently Iām leaning towards OpenStack, since I know some cloud providers use it for VPS offerings. I know enough about hyper-V that I know I donāt want to use it, ever. At least outside the context of Azure VMs. I canāt really do Azure cloud at home (theyāre is a way, Iāve looked into it, but itās very expensive), though my current workplace uses Azure extensively.
Iām just not aware of any company using proxmox as a VM platform, whether single host or clustered.
Well I canāt speak for enterprise but for me it works pretty well in a 3 node cluster. I can live transfer VMs that are hosting services with very little interruption. Proxmox also supports HA and Ceph but I havenāt used those features.
Good to know. Iāll examine everything carefully. Iāve been debating on replacing my existing monolithic iSCSI storage configuration with Ceph, so maybe that will weigh inā¦ Having something that can access Ceph natively is a big plus. Otherwise I need something to sit in between that can basically translate Ceph to iSCSI luns, which is just more complexity that Iād like to avoid.
A lot of things to consider. Thank you for the comments.
I have clients that use internal, but they do it as a subdomain; so internal.contoso.com
Any internal only domains that I set up are probably going to go the same way. Iāve used domain.local previously, and the DNS headache I get from that is immeasurable.
With so many things going āto the cloudā or whatever, the internal.domain.tld convention tends to make more sense to me.
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