Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for the basic configuration. Reminder graphic: […]
In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think of it (thanks to Amazon […]
I chose Dell as my hardware platform, VMware for my host hypervisor, and I am starting with a 2 system ‘cluster’. (I use the word ‘cluster’ not because they are clustered in a way that most people think of things, but in that they will share SAN LUNs for their storage allowing migration from one server to another.) Last week […]
As promised, a picture: Isn’t it beautiful?
The fun is getting going – ordered up the 8 servers as listed in the configuration in my blog post from October 4th, 2008 on October 14th, 2008. This will give me 8 host systems and one spare on the shelf (I’ll be using it for test deployments and such as well). Ship date: October 16th, 2008. Weight: 862lb Due date: Today! […]
I measured another system at the office today looking at usage on a 2950 with Energy Smart power supplies, and L series processors (50W each). Idle usage was 2.1A, and when I pushed the system as hard as I could to light up 4 cores the system went to 2.9A of power. This is .3A higher than the PE2900 system […]
Time for some power measurements! ESXi was the hypervisor involved in the tests. System installed, 4 virtuals powered on, but not doing anything: 2.2A @115V System installed, 4 virtuals being installed hitting the I/O system: 2.4A @115V System installed, 4 virtuals pushing 100% CPU each, no tuning: 2.6A @115V While the virtuals were pushing the high CPU load, they were also hitting […]
Oh noes, part 3 is upon me and now I must be witty or informative. I am tired today, so I’ll try for informative. My PE2900 showed up today and has been put into the rack. I even have a silly picture of its guts… Wasn’t that nice? Say ‘yes’ please, it helps my ego a lot. Now onto the […]
Ah, the dreaded part 2 of the series. I ordered my test system from Dell on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008, and the box shipped on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008. I am excitedly waiting for it. The box I ordered is to test out the I/O performance for the mail server virtualization, the config is: Quad Core Xeon E5420, 2.5Ghz, 2x6MB […]