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My take on this is a small SmartOS cluster running on 3 x Thinkpad T430s - each with the DVD drive removed and two SSDs installed as a ZFS mirror. The whole cl
by foxhop 8y ago
My take on this is a small SmartOS cluster running on 3 x Thinkpad T430s - each with the DVD drive removed and two SSDs installed as a ZFS mirror.
The whole cluster idles at 150 watts and each node is backed by it's own dedicated battery. Upstream I have about 4 hours on an APC unit which also protects the router and modem from outages.
My own little cloud for under $1,200.
- qaq 8y agoNice approach also notebooks with broken screens would be a good option for something like this.
- lpmay 8y agoNice. Do you have any guides you wrote or used that you can recommend? I'm looking at getting SmartOS set up at home as well, but I know I've got a lot to learn.
- foxhop 8y agoIt sort of just works. Get yourself a big USB thumb drive (I use 8 and 16G) and boot off it. You'll answer a few questions to install. I like the Thinkpads because they are so cheap ($200-300) gets you an i7 and 8-12GB RAM. The CPUs are compatible with SmartOS for KVM guests. All that said, I really should write a definitive guide of how to operate SmartOS coming from the linux ecosystem.