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KellyOlivier
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New whitebox configuration that works

So about a month ago after reading several whitebox pages, I decided to spring for it and build a cluster of my own. I wanted to post my setup so others have a proven solution that is pretty cheap for a 8 core 16GB RAM cluster.

4 Hitachi drives for Openfiler - 400 bucks

2 Intel PWLA8391GT nics - 54 bucks

2 ASUS M2-M3N8200 barbones kits - 290 bucks

4 sets of OCZ DDR2-8500 RAM - 240 bucks

2 Promise TX4 conrollers - 120 bucks

2 AMD Phenom X4 2.8 Ghz processors - 390 bucks

2 Kingston USB drives - 10 bucks.

It comes out to 550 bucks per node excluding storage. The storage was for an external Openfiler box so I can have raid. I am very pleased with this setup, but wish I had more pci slots for added nics to setup link aggregation even though it wouldn't affect performance for this setup since it will be the same ip being accessed. I also bought a 300 dollar switch that does link agg and jumbos.

*Sorry, I think I marked this as a question....*

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pdxnative
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Hi Kelly -

I am in the processes of spec'ing out an ESXi whitebox. How is your configuration holding up? Would you change any of the components if you were to start over? Thanks for posting!

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KellyOlivier
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I may have specced out a whitebox with more pci slots for more nics. I like to setup link aggr and test things like that but if you don't need that stuff no worries.

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