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Indeed a nice offer! looks like I can rent a few for worker nodes for map reduce tasks in the future. Hope the IPKVM will be available by then.
Amazing
I'll give you $50 if you can show me how someone could plug in a KVM to this machine. Let alone a normal monitor + keyboard + mouse to fix issues in-person.
May I ask how did you know the exact model they deployed???
Can someone post the output from dmidecode?
Photos posted by their owner in the other thread of racks of these chassis and explaining that they're Open Compute Project systems.
There is a diagnostic kit available from one of the vendors.
Hi fish!
Sure.
Lots of these, but...
Handle 0x0028, DMI type 17, 34 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0021 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 8192 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: A5 Bank Locator: Node0_Bank0 Type: DDR3 Type Detail: Registered (Buffered) Speed: 1333 MHz Manufacturer: Hynix Semiconducto Serial Number: 2B2BE0F2 Asset Tag: Dimm5_AssetTag Part Number: HMT31GR7BFR4A Rank: 1 Configured Clock Speed: 1333 MHzHmm interesting.
Delimiter,
Why both of you keep show up on other offer? Willing to help or want someone asking for refugee then that thread become yours? Just like thread berofe outages
In some thread both of delimiter representative offer different product, I thing 1 is enough.
Imagine if they had 5 guy here??
Just check both WSI thread.
Left them alone, make your own offer, or ask people to do that
Lol
@mikeyur I want to claim your $50
Here is the solution..
PCI graphic card x1
Monitor x 1
Camera module for raspberry pi x 1
Raspberry pi x1
USB to Raspberry pie connector cable x1
Greek x 1
I guess if you permanently install one, otherwise it involves powering it down via unplugging the molex and dropping the card in then booting back up.
These are great machines for crunching a ton of data (which is what Facebook used them for), just take a lot of hacks to work even semi-correctly as server gear.
I said KVM not.. whatever that monstrosity you're building is :P
I believe that there is also a "debug header" which you can plug into on the motherboard if you buy the diagnostic kit from one of the vendors.
POST codes (see 10.8.1). The debug header supports hot plugging.
reset switch. The RS-232 serial port provides console redirection. The two 7-segment LED
displays show BIOS POST code and DIMM error information. The reset switch triggers a
system reset when pressed.
It function exactly the same as a KVM... It just... a bit bulky..
but IT WILL WORK. 99.99% SLA guaranteed..
Yeah, the boards support PXE, so I'm sure that's how they're doing it.
NOC-PS probably.
Yeah, you can do PXE via the gigabit port. The board also has basic management (DCMI). The graphics card add-on might work, but I don't know if the USB port supports HID as it's designed for storage.
These are meant for clusters of compute power, that's why there's only room for 1 disk per system. If a drive dies you pull the full chassis (2 machines) and swap the drive, then plug it back in and it automatically spins up and starts crunching data again.
The problem with these systems is that there is no strain relief on the PCI slot (which requires a riser) so pulling a card in and out, or worse trying to connect a VGA cable to a PCI card runs the risk of wobbling badly.
Same with the 10GE mezz, its just hanging there on some nylon pins.
These were designed and used by Facebook for internal computing, as a raw compute server - they are fine, but for hosting they are unsuitable.
The lack of onboard KVM, lack of video interface on the board, the USB port is designed for USB flash not for HID.
The only way to run these is using PXE and when something goes wrong SysRCD or similar. But for Windows users this is going to be hell on earth. What do you do when Windows blows up and you need to get into the console, you can't because there is no way in.
The problem with that is that this port is presented to the OS, so from a hosting provider perspective, a user could just ifconfig eth0 and they are on the management network.
VLAN isn't going to protect it because the user has access to the hardware so can manipulate the VLAN tagging on the shared port.
This was one of the big turnoffs I saw when these systems came on the market about 18 months ago.
may be you should get another account without the provider title to provide us all these information
We all want to be a nicer guy isn't it?
Ok, I'll use this one for my non-Delimiter postings.
WTF Impersonator!!
Hey are you guys trying to hijack the WSI thread?
Ask @tommy
So, there will be downtime for you if the guy sharing the chassis has a dead disk?
Should be able to pull the disks from the back, pop out cables and slide disk out.
Nice one
I like Delimiter though and was joking with my question, I'm not like tommy, and I'm not his multi-account.