Hi Pim
Digging up a bit of an older thread,
But out of interest, do you still use Kees for your implementations as the configuration tool? Or is there something better to use now?
Kind regards
Edd
On 27 Mar 2024, at 11:16, Pim van Pelt via zanog-discuss 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 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
-- Pim van Peltpim@ipng.ch PBVP1-RIPE -https://ipng.ch/
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