Project:Infrastructure/Shopping list

This page is used to list things on infra's shopping list. The goal is to solicit feedback from the community on available options and pricing.

Switch
We have a temporary loaner switch at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL), this is because the Cisco WS-C2970G-24T-E switch purchased in 2011 had failed during 2020. OSUOSL wants their loaner back, so we need new switchgear. The old switch provided multiple VLANs, which covered both OOB/IPMI as well as public/normal traffic.

See switch discussion in Discussion page about potential FS.com switches

Requirements:

 * At least 12 10GBASE-T ports
 * SFP+ not presently in use, but maybe for future expansion
 * Present 10GBASE-T hosts
 * oriole & ovenbird each have 2x 10GBASE-T
 * catbus has 4x 10GBASE-T
 * Future Hosts:
 * Ganeti replacements (3 hosts): at least 2x (10GBASE-T or SFP+ or SFP28 or QSFP28)
 * Remote management
 * VLAN support

Nice to have:

 * Bonding/trunking
 * redundant PSU: this would only be for the PSU failing, we don't have redundant power feeds in the rack (both breakers come from the same circuit)
 * 25G/40G options

Proposal

 * 1x FS.com S5860-20SQ (high-speed systems) - $1600 USD
 * One of:
 * 1x FS.com S3910-24TF (OOB/IPMI/embedded/non-10G systems) - $369 USD
 * 1x FS.com S3910-24TS (OOB/IPMI/embedded/non-10G systems), adds 10G uplink - $769 USD
 * Various SFP+/SFP28/QSFP28 transceivers
 * Upper bound: 20x$65USD = extra $1300
 * Slashbeast recommends using DAC if we just want 10gbps; like https://www.fs.com/products/21254.html?attribute=1318&id=222508
 * about 15$ per 10G DAC instead of 65 for the transceiver; but we need SFP compatible kits.
 * More for 25G/40G DAC options.
 * Optical Cabling
 * Wild Estimate: $500 USD total
 * Estimated total: $3700 USD

Computing
We have some aging hardware at the OSUOSL. We need generic computing boxes.

Goal
We don't need the fastest beefiest boxes. Primarily we need:
 * fast storage (SSD/NVM-e): almost all our operations are IO-bound.
 * Power Optimized: We are constrained on power in this hosting location; so don't want the fastest power-sucking threadripper; would rather take a low/mid range core with better power curves.
 * space optimized: 1-2U preferable.
 * We'd have 4-5 moderately sized units than 1-2 huge beefy units, esp. using Ganeti where the failure domain can be contained.

Hard requirements

 * 1) 10Gbit ethernet ports [preference for 10GBASE-T since there are no SFP+ systems in place so far)
 * 2) >5TB usable storage on each system (after any RAID [MD,LVM,ZFS])
 * 3) 15T usable storage pre-raid.
 * 4) 4 or more NVMe slots: U.2(2.5") / E1.S / E1.L / E3.* (Robin suggests something like https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/186674/intel-ssd-d5p4326-series-15-36tb-2-5in-pcie-3-1-x4-3d2-qlc.html)
 * 5) Dual PSU
 * 6) OS Boot disk: If the chassis has dedicated 2xM.2 slots, then yes, populate them w/ OS disks.

Migrate to VM:

 * vulture.gentoo.org (GSOC box), a Dell SC1435, 4GB RAM, dual opteron 2210, 2xST3500630NS (500 GB 7200 RPM spinning rust.)

Replacing:

 * jacamar.gentoo.org (CI box)
 * whitebox supermicro
 * 64GB ram
 * dual opteron 6272's
 * 2x Samsung 860 1T (RAID1)
 * 4x WD 1T (RAID10)
 * 2x WD mixed (old disks from other hosts)
 * sucks power
 * writes 100GiB/day


 * dipper.gentoo.org (masterdistfiles.gentoo.org):
 * dellpoweredge R415
 * 2x6 core opterons
 * 32G RAM
 * 8T usable disk available, ~5T used
 * 4x Seagate ST33000651AS in HWRAID5
 * Writes 200GiB/day


 * oriole.gentoo.org & ovenbird.gentoo.org (hypervisors in Ganeti cluster)
 * whitebox supermicro (2U SuperServer 2028TP-DECTR)
 * 128GB ram (each)
 * 2x E5-2620 v4 (each)
 * Disk (each):
 * 2x Samsung 850 1T (RAID1)
 * 4x Seagate ST2000NX0273 2T (mixed RAID1 LVs over the disks)
 * ~5T worth of data present
 * Writes 1TiB/day (each)

Recommendations (unaudited)

 * kitten suggests just goint Dell R700-series (both Intel and AMD available.) Basic specs are about 4-5k per unit. Fancy enterprise boxes, w/Procs. 4-5k does not include disks or RAM.
 * Slashbeast suggests going more workstation class (rather than server.) Barebones: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-1u4lw-x570-2l2t-amd-ryzen-5000-series-desktop-processors-amd-ryzen-4000-g-series-desktop/p/N82E16816775021 We'd have to price out the other components.
 * https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/servers-storage-and-networking/poweredge-r6515-rack-server/spd/poweredge-r6515/pe_r6515_13732_vi_vp?configurationid=0c73bea1-bab9-4099-9124-70ad7a48f921 (barebones dell)