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],
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].
As an alternative, the same card with 2x25G is available as XXV710-DA2
[link]
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]
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].
Good luck!
groet,
Pim
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Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.ch>
PBVP1-RIPE - https://ipng.ch/