We share materials with unpacking and tests of storage systems and server equipment that we received and used in different periods of activity of our .
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Server systems
. Overview of the compact enterprise-class UCS B480 M5 - the chassis (we also show it) fits four of these servers with an I / O bandwidth of 80 Gb / s per slot. The solution was equipped with a 2x Cisco UCS 2208XP expander or FEX. The Cisco UCS B480 M5 blade server can be used to work with highly loaded corporate applications and to solve virtualization tasks. It is based on the Intel Xeon Scalable (up to 28 working cores) and is actually a "doubled" implementation of the B200 M5 server. Read more about the characteristics - we tell in our material at the link above.
. We show what the bundle looks like in the package and talk about the filling. The kit includes a UCS 5108 chassis, Fabric Interconnect switches with UCS Manager on board for server management, virtualization and automation, as well as FEX expanders. In the course of parsing the boxes, we show a number of nuances, such as the cooling mechanisms of the switch, partitions between the processors on the server, etc.
. A slightly earlier review of the UCS M4308 kit. This solution is tailored for parallel and cloud computing and offers the functionality of virtual interfaces (Virtual Interface Card) together with the UCS Manager management system. This feature allows you to use the solution for parallelized tasks. The UCS M142 cartridges used here are designed specifically for IaaS providers - they consume less power than the same M1414, but cope with the increased loads of business-critical applications.
. In this material we are talking about tools for system configuration. In the first part of the story, we give a brief overview of its characteristics, and then we give a step-by-step algorithm for working with it, from connecting the console wire to parsing individual contributions and obtaining the desired result.
. There is an opinion that VRTX is “an ideal server system for small companies”. This is our photo review: from unpacking to installing hardware in a rack.
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. We speak in simple words about high performance computing. We tell what blade servers are, where they are used, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and show the Dell PowerEdge M1000e as an example. In addition, we discuss Twin- and microservers: we talk about the layout, pros and cons of such systems using the examples of the Dell C6000 and Supermicro models.
Storage systems
. We start with the configuration of the disk array, the test server and the connection diagram. We talk about the methodology, present a set of tests and evaluate their results. This array is capable of passing 1,5Gbps through a single controller in streaming workloads. To test it, we used the FIO benchmark and tried to give an objective assessment of the results.
. This storage system replaced the 32 and 62 NetApp series as a more productive solution for the ITGLOBAL site (supplemented with Cluster Interconnect). We show the process of unpacking, the "insides" of the controllers, an overview of the ports and the location in the rack. All this together with the technical characteristics of the equipment.
. We show the E2724, sharpened for data storage in SAN environments. We unpack everything step by step, note the features of the configuration and implementation of this solution - we consider it from all sides and give the characteristics.
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. We are talking about the purchased AFF A300 for one hundred TB SSD. In the first part of the photo review - we give the characteristics, show the features of the system design, look "under the hood" of the controller and talk about the cooling system. In the second, we show the NetApp DS224C shelf and the location of the hardware in the rack.
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