Anybody running Proxmox on dual AMD Opteron 6300 series CPU, particularly 6344 or above?
Know anybody who is running one without issue?
Know anybody who is running one without issue?
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Proxmox on Dual AMD Opteron 63XX
- Thread starter wahmed
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Hi,
I have two nodes with dual opterons: 2 * 6380 + 2 * 6328 (motherboard Asus KGPE-D16).
Work without trouble (kernel 2.6.32-27 - with higher kernels we had kernel panics; but not clear where the issue is).
Udo
Well after much much thinking and planning, i decided to go with this:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/2027/SYS-2027TR-HTQRF.cfm
Initial investment is huge, but overall it is actually going to cost less. With this i can squeeze 8 Xeon's per 2U rackmount. If i use Xeon E5-2620 i will have 96 Cores per 2U Rackmount chassis with half the cost of electric bill. Cant wait to get my hands on this!
Only deciding factor between Xeon and AMD was the price. Surprisingly AMD unit with same configuration costs $3000 additional then per 2U Xeon unit!!
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/2027/SYS-2027TR-HTQRF.cfm
Initial investment is huge, but overall it is actually going to cost less. With this i can squeeze 8 Xeon's per 2U rackmount. If i use Xeon E5-2620 i will have 96 Cores per 2U Rackmount chassis with half the cost of electric bill. Cant wait to get my hands on this!
Only deciding factor between Xeon and AMD was the price. Surprisingly AMD unit with same configuration costs $3000 additional then per 2U Xeon unit!!
Hi,
i think you compare apples with oranges - with the Intel you get 48 real cores. 96 is with HT. AMD use real cores only.
But I think with the power consumption you will be better with the intel-system...
How do you want to use the network? Each server with an 10gb-nic or do you use the infiniband for IP?
Do you want to use the chassis also for ceph? With which disks, because only 2.5" are usable?
Udo
You are right. I guess i just treat core a core, physical or logical since the end result is about the same.
Power consumption indeed is better in Intel since it deals with less physical core.
These are strictly Proxmox computing nodes. I have separate Ceph only nodes. Aftre running some tests i decided not to mix Ceph in same Proxmox nodes. But i do use Ceph server in Proxmox so that all nodes are in one cluster. I just dont put OSDs in computing nodes. This unit has builtin Infiniband. So plan is to convert existing Gigabit Ceph cluster to 10gbps Infiniband.