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Re: [Moosefs-users] moosefs distro
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From: Steve <st...@bo...> - 2012-01-06 10:11:13
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Travis, Yes I guess the world is moving on with VM's only something ive recently dabbled first ESxi and Proxmox which I currently have a vm mounted that is stored on moosefs. As only a hobbyist/home user most of my moose boxes are on various recycled PC's bits however most have ssd boot. I do have one atom based chunk although just in regular case for cheapness. I did some years back try 1u cases with the intention of having a rack but found them very noisy and the hardware expensive for home use and now have a custom homemade walk in cupboard with ample power points and LAN points for each shelf. With all cabling hidden behind including patch panel. Yes a standalone unit was in my mind when I dabbled with the distro some years ago with the idea of inserting the cd and answering little more than one question to determine the boxes role. Again hardware has moved on with usb stick more the norm for booting and ssd drives. Steve -------Original Message------- From: Travis Hein Date: 05/01/2012 16:13:03 To: moo...@li... Subject: Re: [Moosefs-users] moosefs distro The chunk server daemons are very low footprint for system resource requirements. Enough so they are suitable to coexist with other system services. Where if you have a cluster of physical machines each with a local disk, just making every compute node also be a chunk server for aggregated file system capacity. Most of the time lately though we put everything in virtual machines on virtual machine hosting platforms now. Which I guess I kind of feel it is to as efficient to have the chunk servers spread out everywhere, all VMs are backed by the same SAN anyway, so the performance over spread out disks goes away right. So lately I create a Virtual machine just for running the chunk server process. We have a "standard" of using CentOS for our VMs. Which is arguably kind of wasteful to just use it as a chunk server process, but it is pretty much set and forget and appliance-ized. I have often thought about creating a moose fs stand alone appliance. An embedded nano itx board in a 1U rackmount chassis, solid state boot, and a minimal linux distribution, with a large sata drives. Both low power and efficient, out of our virtualized platform. At least probably cheaper to grow capacity than buying more iSCSI RAID SAN products :P But this is still in my to do some day pile. On 12-01-04 10:28 AM, Steve wrote: > Do people use moose boxes for other roles ? > > > > Sometime ago I made a moosefs linux ISO cd (not a respin) however the > installer wasn't insert cd and job done. Taking it any further was beyond my > capabilities. > > > > Is such a thing needed or desired ? Any collaborators > > > > Steve > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex > infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to > virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual > desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure > costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > _______________________________________________ > moosefs-users mailing list > moo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moosefs-users -- Travis ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ moosefs-users mailing list moo...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moosefs-users |
