Today template got pretty much finished and we are now operating on 3 nodes already on full production and 1 to be setup on production.
Tomorrow several more nodes will be setup, and we are expecting a shipment of several nodes this week.
Hopefully next week we reach 20+ servers online, with a lot of the preorders already delivered.
We finally achieved bootable and usable system booted off iSCSI, and the base Debian 7 template is now done. Initial production system testing on the SAN:Core2DuoIntel Gbit adapterSingle connection, Single SessionNo jumbo frames 108M/s throughput on first attempt and 3200IOPS. Comparison: WD Black using the same tests achieved only 160IOPS. Läs mer »
New service provisionings are lagging behind due to the network and hardware build out. It makes no sense to acquire from the old locations more servers just to be migrated out shortly.
We are days away from production.
Redundancy and performance is extra important on storage, so today we were at the DC brainstorming this. We ended up on decision to build a big cluster of small machines, and keep on upgrading those on a as needed basis. This will give much better redundancy as things are relying on many more individual machines and scale out is easier on our ... Läs mer »
