[Rdo-list] Cheap, quiet hardware for a small RDO installation?

[Radtke, James]

I did the same - and although it does not meet your budgetary requirements, it should give you an idea of what direction to look (even though I cannot recall specifics of my setup ;-)

I have a 3 system "lab" (for testing oVirt/RHEV, Satellite, Clustering, OpenStack).

SSDs were not necessary, but 7200rpm spindles became noticeably loud (as quiet as the rest of my LAB is).
The additional NICs were also not *necessary* but provide a lot of flexibility.
I believe you will not need as much storage as you have predicted.

* "Controller" 
Case: (I don't recall)
Power Supply: (I don't recall)
Mobo:  ASRock Z77E-ITX 
Proc: Intel i5-3570k
Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB)
PCIe: quad-NIC Intel I350
HDD: Crucial ATA-M4 SSD 256G

* "Compute"
Mobo:  Intel (I can't recall the model) 
Proc: Intel i5-3570k
Memory: 8GB (2 x 4GB)
PCIe: dual-NIC Intel 
HDD: Crucial ATA-M4 SSD 256G

And some nice-to-haves... KVM and 2 desktop switches (I also have a Managed Switch for doing some multicast testing - and that thing makes my 700 sq ft loft sound like a data center :-(
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Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Cheap, quiet hardware for a small RDO installation?

Hi Kodiak,

That sounds awesome!

I would appreciate that, thank you.

Regards,
Dave.

On 12/02/2014 10:44 AM, Kodiak Firesmith wrote:
> I recently did this using micro-ATX to save money over they shuttle /
> ITX form factor.  I built around the cheapest low-wattage AMD quad-core
> APU I could find on Newegg with 8GB RAM on each box and slow 1tb
> spinning platters.  I think I got down to about $340 / each for all
> components including PCI-e 2x1GB NICs I got second hand from a parts
> liquidator.  If you are interested in specifics I can try to compile
> them after work.
>
>  - Kodiak
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com
> <mailto:dneary at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm looking for ideas of mini PCs I can use for a small RDO cloud -
>     looking at maybe 3 shuttle PCs, each with "enough" disk (maybe 800GB
>     total storage) and RAM (8GB per PC enough?). Also, I'm wondering if 2
>     NICs is reasonable to ask for. My desired price point is *low* - all 3
>     for under $1000 would be ideal, failing that, as close to it as
>     possible.
>
>     Anyone have recommendations for hardware that would serve this process?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Dave.
>
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