Hoi Ron, colleagues,
On 27.03.24 08:03, Ron B wrote:
Excellent. Dou you have a precise model or hardware reference for those Supermicro machines so that we can have them sourced locally.
I’ll buy you beers when I see you.
I described it in detail on https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/09/21/vpp-7.html both the hardware and the software bits. I'm still running this exact configuration at AS8298. For the list, the chassis I chose is a *Supermicro SYS-5018D-FN8T* [link https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/1u/5018/sys-5018d-fn8t.cfm], which includes:
* Full IPMI support (power, serial-over-lan and kvm-over-ip with HTML5), on a dedicated network port. * A 4-core, 8-thread Xeon D1518 CPU which runs at 35W * Two independent Intel i210 NICs (Gigabit) * A Quad Intel i350 NIC (Gigabit) * Two Intel X552 (TenGig) * (optional) One Intel X710 Quad-TenGig NIC in the expansion bus * m.SATA 120G boot SSD * 2x16GB of ECC RAM
Regarding that Intel 4x10G, it's the rather popular *X710-DA4* [link https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/83965/intel-ethernet-converged-network-adapter-x710-da4.html]. As an alternative, the same card with 2x25G is available as *XXV710-DA2* [link https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/95260/intel-ethernet-network-adapter-xxv710-da2.html] and I operate that card at some places.
But just to re-iterate: any PC with an Intel Xeon D or E, or AMD Zen3+ will do absolutely fine. Some folks may want more PCI slots or dual PSU, so a fine alternative that I also run in production is the *Dell R630* [link https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/documents/dell-poweredge-r630-spec-sheet.pdf] because it allows for up to 16x10G at line rate, using ~120W. In case you want to binge watch some VPP materials - take a look at my [NOG recordings] https://video.ipng.ch/c/ipngnetworks/videos?s=1.
Good luck!
groet, Pim