Proliant G8 Servers
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June 2017, acquired a pair of HP Proliant DL380e G8 LFF servers.
The plan for these is turn them into Ceph + hypervisor systems.
hardware overview
- 2U rackmount server
- 12x 3.5inch HDD slots in the front
- 2 sockets for Intel Xeon E5-24xx processors (original or v2)
- 6 DDR3 DIMM sockets per processor (12 total, so 96 Gbytes of RAM if fully populated with 8Gbyte DIMMs)
- 4x Intel chipset GigE ports on the back
- ILO 4 system management
cool things
- Can be found cheaper than Dell R510s now
- Faster CPUs than an R510 takes (one or 2 generations newer)
- 8 core, 16 thread, 1.8 GHz E5 CPUs can be had for under $35
- heat sinks included in the ~ $200 price
uncool things
- It's not UEFI based
- Not sure on-motherboard SATA adapter will drive all 12 disk slots in front
- Gen 8 3.5inch disk trays are hard to come by
- Only 12 DIMM slots -- these are not the thing for half Tbyte in memory databases
- E5-24xx CPUs are a little harder to find than E5-26xx
Goals for these
- After it's racked and cabled, touchless firmware updates
- Touchless OS install
- There is no optical drive, so PXE booting and Fully Automated Install to be done.
- To include cfengine or salt or chef or puppet or similar
- Encrypt all the bits
- Encrypt all the bits (on the disks)
- Encrypt all the bits (on the wires)
- One Ceph OSD per spindle