From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 18 14:35: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from server.soekris.com (dnai-216-15-61-44.cust.dnai.com [216.15.61.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A5937B71A for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:34:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Received: from soekris.com ([192.168.1.4]) by server.soekris.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA06240 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Message-ID: <3AB5380F.C5A7D65D@soekris.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:34:55 -0800 From: Soren Kristensen Organization: Soekris Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RFC: Very high density servers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Everybody, This might be a little off tropic, but let me ask anyway: I'm working on designing a very high density server appliance, and would really love some input from some potential users and sources of authority. Current design specs: Single 500-700 Mhz PIII/Celeron mobile processor Up to 1 Gbyte ECC SDRAM 2 Ethernet ports CompactFlash for booting Up to 2 x 2.5" IDE drives, currently max 30 Gbyte/drive No CD-ROM, no floppy, no video Headless operation using serial port 4 servers per 1U rack, 12" deep Hotplug of individual servers 15-20W power per server Optional -48V power supply Optional redundant power supply in 2U and larger chassis Optional built dual ethernet switch with gigabit uplink Low cost Is that something you would consider using ? Anything you would like to add ? Will disk performance be a limiting factor ? Will CPU performance be a limiting factor ? Does anybody use fancy management, like IPMI ? Thanks, Soren Kristensen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message