[ale] server troubles (again)

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:06 -0500, JD wrote: 
> On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote: 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1
> >> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.
> > 
> > I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers on the table
> > as well.
> > 
> > Downsides:
> > MCA SCSI Drives
> > 2U Form Factor
> > Needs rails
> > Noisy (belongs in a rack)
> > 
> > Upside:
> > Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs
> > Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed
> > 4096MB Ram
> > Dual Power Supplies
> > 
> > Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.
> > 
> > I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number crunching.  Between
> > the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my office and one
> > is already buried in a rack.
> > 
> > We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.
> > 

> Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a libvirt box with a
> few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.

The CPUs do not have hardware virt so KVM is out.  LXC is still
possible.

Mike
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