Publish Date: ‘2013-06-13’¶

Hardware specifications¶

All hardware we procure for our infrastructure will comply to the following specifications. Older hardware may have been bought adhering to former versions of the specification and will be upgraded over time and as necessary.

Housing customers’ equipment also needs to comply to the specification valid at the time of installation.

Servers¶

All servers, independently of their role, require:

1 1G network port onboard with shared IPMI and PXE boot functionality
2 25G network ports with VXLAN offloading (Nvidia Connect X-4 or newer)
Support for UEFI boot
OS disks: 1 SSD M.2 internal, >= 240 GiB
CPU-Architecture: x86_64, preferably AMD
BMC supporting IPMI 2.0 with serial console via LAN on shared port
Redundant power supply
Sliding rack rails

Historic requirements, usually always given nowadways:

Needs to be bootable from USB flash drive
PCIe bus

Application servers¶

Chassis: 2 rack units
at least 768 GiB RAM
at least 2x28 Core CPU at affordable speeds
Microarchitecture: at least Zen 3 (Milan)
Machine name: kyleXX

Storage servers¶

Base: 2 rack units
24 slots for U.2/U.3 NVMe drives
at least 1x24 cores with sufficient single-thread performance (3GHz+)
256 GiB RAM
Drives: 15 TiB NVMe, e.g. Micron 7450 Pro
code name: cartmanXY

Backup servers¶

Base: 2 rack units
24 slots for U.2/U.3 NVMe drives
at least 1x16 cores
96 GiB RAM
Drives: 15 TiB NVMe, e.g. Micron 7450 Pro, Kioxia and Solidigm are valid, too.
code name: barbradyXY

Routers¶

Base: 2 rack units
3-4 PCIe slots for additional network cards
at least 16 GiB RAM
at least 1x8 cores, potentially power saving options
code name: kennyXY