Our Current Production Environment
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:04 pm
I have decided to share my design for my VMWare production environment.
This took a long time to build and has become a living legacy for me.
I wanted to build a data center on a strict budget, and this is what I came up with:
Storage Servers:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
3 SuperMicro 847E26-RJBOD1 Slave Storage Chassis (45x 3.5x HDD)
3 SuperMicro 847E26-R1400LPB Storage Server Chassis (36x 3.5" HDD)
3 SuperMicro MBD-X8DTH-IF Dual IOH36, Xeon Tylersburg ServerBoard
6 Mellenox MHQH29B-XTR ConnectX-2 VPI InfiniBand Adapter
3 3Ware/LSI 9750-8i SAS RAID Controller (8x Internal, 6GB, 512MB)
3 3Ware/LSI S9750-8e SAS RAID Controller (8x External, 6GB, 512MB)
36 Samsung M393B1K70CH0-CH9 16GB DDR3-1333 DIMM ECC Registered
6 INTEL BX80614L5640 Xeon L5640 6Core+HT/2.26GHz/12M/6.4GT/s
Switches:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
2 Mellenox IS5035 36 Port Non-Blocking InfiniBand Switch
1 Cisco WS-C4510R+E Catalyst Chassis
2 Cisco WS-X45-SUP7-E Sup 7-E 10GE (4x SFP+) - Packet Processing Engine
2 Cisco WS-X4712-SFP+E 12 ports 1G/10G SFP+ (48G shared) - Line Card
2 Cisco WS-X4748-RJ45-E 48-Port Non-Blocking 10/100/1000 (RJ-45) - Line Card
VMWare Nodes:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
2 SuperMicro 6026TT-HIBQF 2U Twin2 SuperServer (4x Dual Xeon HotSwap Nodes)
6 Mellenox MHQH29B-XTR ConnectX-2 VPI InfiniBand Adapter
144 Samsung M393B1K70CH0-CH9 16GB DDR3-1333 DIMM ECC Registered
16 INTEL BX80614L5640 Xeon L5640 6Core+HT/2.26GHz/12M/6.4GT/s
This took a long time to build and has become a living legacy for me.
I wanted to build a data center on a strict budget, and this is what I came up with:
Storage Servers:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
3 SuperMicro 847E26-RJBOD1 Slave Storage Chassis (45x 3.5x HDD)
3 SuperMicro 847E26-R1400LPB Storage Server Chassis (36x 3.5" HDD)
3 SuperMicro MBD-X8DTH-IF Dual IOH36, Xeon Tylersburg ServerBoard
6 Mellenox MHQH29B-XTR ConnectX-2 VPI InfiniBand Adapter
3 3Ware/LSI 9750-8i SAS RAID Controller (8x Internal, 6GB, 512MB)
3 3Ware/LSI S9750-8e SAS RAID Controller (8x External, 6GB, 512MB)
36 Samsung M393B1K70CH0-CH9 16GB DDR3-1333 DIMM ECC Registered
6 INTEL BX80614L5640 Xeon L5640 6Core+HT/2.26GHz/12M/6.4GT/s
Switches:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
2 Mellenox IS5035 36 Port Non-Blocking InfiniBand Switch
1 Cisco WS-C4510R+E Catalyst Chassis
2 Cisco WS-X45-SUP7-E Sup 7-E 10GE (4x SFP+) - Packet Processing Engine
2 Cisco WS-X4712-SFP+E 12 ports 1G/10G SFP+ (48G shared) - Line Card
2 Cisco WS-X4748-RJ45-E 48-Port Non-Blocking 10/100/1000 (RJ-45) - Line Card
VMWare Nodes:
Qty Manufacturer Model Number Description
2 SuperMicro 6026TT-HIBQF 2U Twin2 SuperServer (4x Dual Xeon HotSwap Nodes)
6 Mellenox MHQH29B-XTR ConnectX-2 VPI InfiniBand Adapter
144 Samsung M393B1K70CH0-CH9 16GB DDR3-1333 DIMM ECC Registered
16 INTEL BX80614L5640 Xeon L5640 6Core+HT/2.26GHz/12M/6.4GT/s