perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Brennan <>]

Thanks!!

On Wed, 13 May 2015, Alan Whinery wrote:

> I've bought 4 or so of the below recently, 2 of them had 4 TB of drive
> space because I anticipate doing more with storage, and they will run
> tests among up to 100 nodes. You may want to get the schmancy Dell
> Management, which I don't use. They are, in my opinion, appropriate new
> purchases for 10 GbE connected nodes in 2015. For 40 or 100 GbE, there
> would be additional criteria, perhaps. Interestingly, my older dual-Atom
> OWAMP-focused nodes, which I bought in 2010, were slightly-suffering
> under the load of 30 scheduled powstream tests, but these don't show any
> appreciable load at 50 tests. So there's more to life than wondering
> whether something can fill a NIC's bitrate...
>
> PowerEdge R320
> Estimated Ship Date:
> 4/27/2015
> MSRP Price $4,401.99
> Price $2,905.31 (WSCA contract price YMMV).
>
> 3.5" Chassis with up to 4 Cabled Hard Drives and Embedded SATA
>
> Processor Intel? Xeon? E5-2430L v2 2.40GHz, 15M
> Cache, 7.2GT/s QPI, Turbo, 6C, 60W, Max
>
> 1600MT/s RDIMMS 1600RD 1 331-4424 1561
> 16GB RDIMM,
>
> No RAID with Embedded SATA (1-4 SATA HDD) with Cabled
> Hard Drives 1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3Gbps 3.5in Cabled
>
> Systems Management Basic Management BMC 1 331-3482 1515
>
> Network Adapter #1 On-Board Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb LOM
>
> Network Adapter #2 - Intel X520 DP 10Gb DA/SFP+ Server