Server Hardware at LinuxWorld
I typically never go to conferences unless they are local to where I am currently (be they in Orlando, my home, or in the city local to my current client or employer). But after some appeals from select people with LPI, I decided to make the last 2 days of the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston for select LPI Advisory Council sessions. I'll post a blog entry specifically on LPI tomorrow.
The Hardware Fiend Strikes!
I was pleasantly surprised to get a good glimpse of some hardware, serious PC server hardware no less. That was an unintended bonus, especially since I loathe many shows that seem to focus on consumer goodies. I always asked first, but was able to snap many pictures of several vendor's products, which I will post shortly. The only vendor who showed reservation was QLogic, so I didn't snap any of theirs.
AMD LGA-1207 (Socket-F)
MSI and Tyan were sporting the new LGA-1207 (Socket-F) Opteron platform with DDR2 in 2-way and 4-way. And while others were probably drooling over the "booth babes" at the front of AMD's spread, I was drooling over AMD's impressive "rack" of the latest server mainboards. A good selection of LGA-1207 2-way, 4-way and modular/blade solutions, along with HP and other tier-1 OEMs displaying their offerings.
It was nice to see both ServerWorks HT2000+HT1000 and nVidia nForce Pro 2200+2050 with AMD8132 mainboards. The sweetest 2-way, commodity solution in my eyes was an Arima with two (2) PCI-X 133MHz, (2) PCIe x4 and (1) PCIe x8 slots.
AMD's beautiful rack! No less than eight (8) Socket-F mainboards ...
Unlike Intel, AMD had its guts exposed everywhere. Take this 1U Rackmount 4-socket Opteron for instance ...
And Tyan's ready for Socket-F -- not just 2-socket, but even 4-socket today!
Commodity Storage Solutions
A few vendors had networking and storage on-site. No SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) vendors seemingly made it, so I stopped by CoRAID's booth to get the marketing hype on ATA over Ethernet (AoE). AoE is oversold against both iSCSI and old, multi-target SCSI-2 and I don't think it'll have much life once SAS takes off. I asked their CEO about what he thought of SAS and the renewed multi-target SCSI-2 solution and he side-stepped the question as if I was talking about single-target SCSI-2.
TekRam's Areca was there, showing off their new SATA RAID products. Areca's ARC-11x0 (PCI-X) and ARC-12x0 (PCIe) Intel X-Scale superscalar ARM-based true hardware RAID solutions have seemingly taken over 3Ware's position in the Linux world -- especially since 3Ware lacks a PCIe offering. AMCC/3Ware wasn't present.
MSI didn't have nearly as much as Tyan, although Areca did a nice job showcasing their true hardware RAID line ...
1 and 10Gbps Ethernet HBAs
There were a few vendors with HBAs for FibreChannel and iSCSI. QLogic's reservation on letting me snap pictures wasn't a loss, as they didn't have their newer 1Gbps products anyway (including no PCIe cards). One of the more interesting vendors (who seemed to be wrongly ignored IMHO) was LeWiz Communications, who had both a full-up 10Gbps Ethernet HBA and, far more commodity, a quad (4) port 1Gbps Ethernet HBA in a low-profile PCIe slot no less.
The LeWiz Talon 3008 (which supports both Linux and Solaris). While people talk about commodity NICs with TCP Off-load Engines (TOE) that are little more than send-only (and not very useful), the LeWiz is offering TOE receive (where it's actually useful) in PCIe, in low-profile and in a quad-port for sub-$1K!
LeWiz had FibreChannel PCIe and a very affordable, low-profile, 4-port 1Gbps Ethernet HBA (TCP receive off-load) PCIe ...
And LeWiz even had a new 10Gbps Ethernet HBA along with other solutions ...
The Hardware Fiend Strikes!
I was pleasantly surprised to get a good glimpse of some hardware, serious PC server hardware no less. That was an unintended bonus, especially since I loathe many shows that seem to focus on consumer goodies. I always asked first, but was able to snap many pictures of several vendor's products, which I will post shortly. The only vendor who showed reservation was QLogic, so I didn't snap any of theirs.
AMD LGA-1207 (Socket-F)
MSI and Tyan were sporting the new LGA-1207 (Socket-F) Opteron platform with DDR2 in 2-way and 4-way. And while others were probably drooling over the "booth babes" at the front of AMD's spread, I was drooling over AMD's impressive "rack" of the latest server mainboards. A good selection of LGA-1207 2-way, 4-way and modular/blade solutions, along with HP and other tier-1 OEMs displaying their offerings.
It was nice to see both ServerWorks HT2000+HT1000 and nVidia nForce Pro 2200+2050 with AMD8132 mainboards. The sweetest 2-way, commodity solution in my eyes was an Arima with two (2) PCI-X 133MHz, (2) PCIe x4 and (1) PCIe x8 slots.
AMD's beautiful rack! No less than eight (8) Socket-F mainboards ...
Unlike Intel, AMD had its guts exposed everywhere. Take this 1U Rackmount 4-socket Opteron for instance ...
And Tyan's ready for Socket-F -- not just 2-socket, but even 4-socket today!
Commodity Storage Solutions
A few vendors had networking and storage on-site. No SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) vendors seemingly made it, so I stopped by CoRAID's booth to get the marketing hype on ATA over Ethernet (AoE). AoE is oversold against both iSCSI and old, multi-target SCSI-2 and I don't think it'll have much life once SAS takes off. I asked their CEO about what he thought of SAS and the renewed multi-target SCSI-2 solution and he side-stepped the question as if I was talking about single-target SCSI-2.
TekRam's Areca was there, showing off their new SATA RAID products. Areca's ARC-11x0 (PCI-X) and ARC-12x0 (PCIe) Intel X-Scale superscalar ARM-based true hardware RAID solutions have seemingly taken over 3Ware's position in the Linux world -- especially since 3Ware lacks a PCIe offering. AMCC/3Ware wasn't present.
MSI didn't have nearly as much as Tyan, although Areca did a nice job showcasing their true hardware RAID line ...
1 and 10Gbps Ethernet HBAs
There were a few vendors with HBAs for FibreChannel and iSCSI. QLogic's reservation on letting me snap pictures wasn't a loss, as they didn't have their newer 1Gbps products anyway (including no PCIe cards). One of the more interesting vendors (who seemed to be wrongly ignored IMHO) was LeWiz Communications, who had both a full-up 10Gbps Ethernet HBA and, far more commodity, a quad (4) port 1Gbps Ethernet HBA in a low-profile PCIe slot no less.
The LeWiz Talon 3008 (which supports both Linux and Solaris). While people talk about commodity NICs with TCP Off-load Engines (TOE) that are little more than send-only (and not very useful), the LeWiz is offering TOE receive (where it's actually useful) in PCIe, in low-profile and in a quad-port for sub-$1K!
LeWiz had FibreChannel PCIe and a very affordable, low-profile, 4-port 1Gbps Ethernet HBA (TCP receive off-load) PCIe ...
And LeWiz even had a new 10Gbps Ethernet HBA along with other solutions ...
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