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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