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Re: Hardware requirements for an LVS director

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hardware requirements for an LVS director
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:39:44 +0900
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:14:11PM -0700, mike wrote:
> I'm looking at this machine, mainly because it's a decent price, and
> it's VERY shallow (10") which means I can put them back to back in a
> single 1u space comfortably with plenty of space between them (14" are
> too close for comfort)
> 
> Would these cards suffice? They're the only options from this vendor,
> I could always find others; but would one of these machines be able to
> easily sustain millions of requests per day? (I'd have a second
> identical one for failover)
> 
> CPU: INTEL CELERON 2.6GHZ 400FSB 128K S478 CPU
> MEMORY: 512MB PC2100 NON ECC UNBUFFERED DDR
> HARD DISK 1: IDE 40GB 7200 RPM ATA100
> PCI Card 1: INTEL PRO/1000 MT GIGABIT DESKTOP COPPER.
> PCI Card 2: INTEL PRO/1000 MT GIGABIT DESKTOP COPPER.
> CHIPSET:  Intel 82845GV Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH).
> CASE:  1U 10in Dual-PCI Slots mini-ITX Rackmount.
> 
> Thanks. Just making sure I'm crossing my T's and dotting my I's here. :)

My only real concern there would be that there have been
reports of issues with the epro1000 drivers, but I think the
have all been resolved - In any case its just heresay because
I no longer have any of these cards.

-- 
Horms

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