perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Pennington, Mike" <>]

So we’ve been looking around for Intel NUC type devices, but that support 10G.  We want them to be Perfsonar nodes, but we will also be using them for some OOB stuff.  I did a lot of poking around and this seems to be the only possible solution:  https://www.amazon.com/d/Computer-Servers/Supermicro-SYS-E300-8D-Intel-D-1518-Server/B01M0VTV3E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544019695&sr=8-1&keywords=SuperServer+E300-8D

 

Anyone have any experience with this box as a test node?  The amount of 1G options is crazy, but we really want to do 10G.  Or did anyone else have any luck with certain devices they could share details about?  I did find some “no name” customizable solutions but want to try to stay away from those because we may not have a way to order from those types of sites.  This one I can at least get from Amazon.  Would like to keep the cost down as well, this mini server, one loaded with RAM and a hard drive, would be upwards of $1000.  Trying to keep around that price point or below.

 

Thanks

 

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