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1U platform for 4 Mac mini M2 Pro
I know almost nothing about server hardware, but this looks impressive and thought the community would like to have a look
Full discussion: https://x.com/Merocle/status/1709948965754650764?s=20
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Very nice
Very nice project, only downside, is, no KVM as MAC's do not have that, so if you need direct access, well, off to the data-center you go.
Secondly, 10 Gbps is by RJ45, in my opinion, totally useless in Datacenter. Otherwise, I respect the effort put into this project. It looks amazing, off the shelf like product.
KVM is provided through PiKVM as mentioned in the post!
Sorry, I did not express my self clear, HW KVM, like BMC, Idrac, ILO, those are KVM.
I will not rely on a PI for KVM 800KM away, no offense. As I said, I see no Datacenter aplication for this, Home use, yes, sure.
Cool concept. I do respect the effort that appears to have gone into this project.
I've worked with him on some possible projects. Dude is quite awesome!
He never fails to impress!
Kept an eye on some of his work over the years, those Pi blades he's been working on are fantastic.
The dude is quite smart with it comes to working on/with a RPi.
I have never had stability issues with RPi's.
Now with that being said. It is quite easy to just setup a RPi over POE for reboots.
Quite funny you saying that 10Gbps over Ethernet is quite useless.
I guess your running 100Gbps to all your servers. EVEN though your only limiting each VM to 10Gbps?!
Yeah. I've been eyeing them since the start. Unfortunately after cost of the PCB and custom chassis. Makes it kinda hard for us to proceed with them.
BUT something we still looking into and still in the design stage on creating a DC version if you will. Considering the newer RPi 5 has better PCI support. Will be interesting to see if they come out with a compute unit as well. Time will tell.
He means 10g is almost everywhere provided only by fiber.
Ah. Well I get that it is a lot by fiber. But I do see quite a few (plus I have quite a few) server motherboards that are 10G Ethernet by default.
Depends. If this is going into a "single u" colo, then at most providers/DC's he'll get either 1G or 10G via copper.
If this is going into a full/half/quarter rack, typically you'll have the network/uplink as fiber. But in that case then its not like they will give him one fiber strand per server. So he will need to bring at least a switch (if the network/routing is managed for him) anyway. Where he has the option to transition into copper for connecting the server.
Even inside the rack, I usually much prefer SFP+ DAC over Ethernet for 10G copper.
this is great bro don't listen to haters