Thread: Hardware Anyone?
We recently decommissioned an old piece of hardware that (if I can figure out how to ship it) we can donate to the PG project. It's a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 16 GB of ram, a 64 bit Xeon CPU (upgradeable to 2), a single SAS drive (72 GB I think), 2 GBE ethernet interfaces, a single power supply module (upgradeable to 2 for redundancy), and a remote control module.. I think it has a RAID controller also, but am not sure (I believe we had it booting off of an external storage device) It's a bug sucker, and has been sitting in our back room for about 5 months now... Would this be useful anywhere? -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote: > We recently decommissioned an old piece of hardware that (if I can figure > out how to ship it) we can donate to the PG project. > > It's a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 16 GB of ram, a 64 bit Xeon CPU (upgradeable > to 2), a single SAS drive (72 GB I think), 2 GBE ethernet interfaces, a > single power supply module (upgradeable to 2 for redundancy), and a remote > control module.. I think it has a RAID controller also, but am not sure (I > believe we had it booting off of an external storage device) > > It's a bug sucker, and has been sitting in our back room for about 5 months > now... > > Would this be useful anywhere? I'm not sure what it would be used for at the moment (we just got some new boxes), but we could likely put it to use in the future, if we got another drive for it. We could probably host it at our (EDB) offices in NJ if needed. Dunno if JD has Dell-friendly racks. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:50 +0000, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote: > > We recently decommissioned an old piece of hardware that (if I can figure > > out how to ship it) we can donate to the PG project. > > > > It's a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 16 GB of ram, a 64 bit Xeon CPU (upgradeable > > to 2), a single SAS drive (72 GB I think), 2 GBE ethernet interfaces, a > > single power supply module (upgradeable to 2 for redundancy), and a remote > > control module.. I think it has a RAID controller also, but am not sure (I > > believe we had it booting off of an external storage device) > > > > It's a bug sucker, and has been sitting in our back room for about 5 months > > now... > > > > Would this be useful anywhere? > > I'm not sure what it would be used for at the moment (we just got some > new boxes), but we could likely put it to use in the future, if we got > another drive for it. > > We could probably host it at our (EDB) offices in NJ if needed. Dunno > if JD has Dell-friendly racks. Well we could always shelf it but I am not sure what we would use it for right now. Joshua D. Drake > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
Chander Ganesan wrote: > We recently decommissioned an old piece of hardware that (if I can > figure out how to ship it) we can donate to the PG project. > > It's a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 16 GB of ram, a 64 bit Xeon CPU > (upgradeable to 2), a single SAS drive (72 GB I think), 2 GBE ethernet > interfaces, a single power supply module (upgradeable to 2 for > redundancy), and a remote control module.. I think it has a RAID > controller also, but am not sure (I believe we had it booting off of an > external storage device) Hmmm. I don't think we really need any single-processor machines for the performance lab, and certainly not anything with a single disk. --Josh
Josh Berkus wrote: > Hmmm. I don't think we really need any single-processor machines for > the performance lab, and certainly not anything with a single disk. Really? I think qutie a few horizontal scaling / partition-at-the-application-level systems have nodes like those. I'd be quite interested if the performance lab can answer questions regarding tradeoffs between scale-out and scale-up.
Ron Mayer wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> Hmmm. I don't think we really need any single-processor machines for >> the performance lab, and certainly not anything with a single disk. > > Really? > > I think qutie a few horizontal scaling / partition-at-the-application-level > systems have nodes like those. I'd be quite interested if the performance > lab can answer questions regarding tradeoffs between scale-out and scale-up. > Josh, do we have room for another machine in the lab? --Josh