So, having gone through some pricing/discusions with SuperMicro distributor for South Africa.
All prices below is ROE dependent, ex-VAT, ex-Shipping (~R15k needs to confirm etc.)
Supermicro SYS-5018D-FN8T
This is basically replaced by the 5019D 8core/16thread The single PSU, internal 3.5/2.5”drives: SYS-5019D-FN8TP: R35k chassis Redundant PSU, hotswap 2.5” drives: SYS-5019D-RN8TP R45k chassis -> “standard” PCIe full height x8 dual 25G SFP28 CX-4) - R8k quad 25G SFP28 - R16k (Intel) dual 100G QSFP28 - R15k (Mellanox CX-4)
The upgraded option: SYS-110D-8C-FRDN8TP with 2x25G SFP28 (Haven’t checked bigger core counts)
The more interesting option IMHO: SYS-1019D-FRN5TP just like the 5018D/5019D standard 4x 1GigE, 2x 10GigE RJ45, 2x 10GigE SPF+ Chassis prices: 8/12/14/16c Chassis ~R45k/R55k/R66k/R80k
What is the nice part is 4x PCIe x8 AOM slots AOM 4x10G SPF+ Intel X710 ~R7.5k
On 27 Mar 2024, at 11:16, Pim van Pelt via zanog-discuss zanog-discuss@lists.nog.net.za wrote:
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!
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