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:
2 10 GE copper network ports, onboard, shared IPMI port (Intel)
OS disks: 2 SSDs (internal or rear side)
CPU-Architecture: x86_64
BMC supporting IPMI 2.0 with serial console via LAN on shared port
Redundant power supply
Sliding rack rails
Support contract for at least 5 years (next business day, parts included)
Bootable, built-in rescue system
Historic requirements, usually always given nowadways:
Needs to be bootable from USB flash drive
PCIe bus
Application servers¶
Chassis: Thomas Krenn RI2208
512 GiB RAM
2x18 Core CPU at affordable speed
Microarchitecture: Westmere+
Machine name: kyleXX
Storage servers¶
Base: Thomas Krenn RI2224
16 slots for hard drives
at leat 16 cores with sufficient thread performance (2x Intel Xeon E5-2640v3 8-Core)
128 GiB RAM
HDD Pool: 2-3 Micron S610DC
SSD Pool: 2-3 Intel 800 GB SATA III Intel SSD MLC 2,5” (DC S3610 Series)
Journal: 400 GB Intel SSD MLC NVMe PCI-E 3.0 (DC P3700 Series)
code name: cartmanXY
Backup servers¶
Base: Thomas Krenn RI1316
No separate drives for system needed, it’s OK to install on the big raid.
High-end hardware RAID controller (Avago MegaRAID 9361-8i SAS3 8x internal) including safe controller cache
at least 15 x 2 TB SAS 7.2k disks, depending on actual requirements.
at least 12 GiB RAM
at least 4 processor cores
code name: barbradyXY
Routers¶
at least 4 GiB RAM
Power saving CPU
code name: kennyXY
Network infrastructure¶
Switches¶
Recommended models: Brocade VDX 6740T
24 Ports
code name: stanXY
Cabling¶
Use Cat7
Respect color coding