So it's not ideal, particularly from a RAM perspective. But my personal, local demo lab is using Mac Mini Servers. Mac Mini's are small, quiet, don't draw a ton of power and can be repopulated with up to 16GB of RAM. The UEFI is somewhat painful for installing things that aren't OSX, but not impossible.
--David On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > @IIya - Thanks for the response. > > You dont need a server, a nicely loaded desktop or even large laptop would >> do the job. > > > I've currently been trying to do this on a late 2011 macbook pro with i7 > processor, 16gb of ram, OS on SSD. I was running VMware fusion with an > xenserver VM and a Cloudstack Manager VM. It was tight for ram but did work > and VMware fusion did pass the VT technology through to xenserver providing > HVM capabilities. > > What is the budget like? > > > Somewhere between 1000 - 1200 eur. I looked at renting with hetzner but it > was coming out at being 500eur for setup costs and 300eur every month. I > have found two second hand dell servers with an Intel Xeon 2.6Ghz (4 dual > core processors with HT installed) and 32gb of ram(total of 83.2ghz and > 64gb of ram) but storage for them is posing to be an issue. (noisy/loud, > electricity cost, internet connection etc.) > > @Sebastien - That looks pretty interesting! Will take a better read of it > tonight. > > On 19 July 2013 09:39, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm looking for peoples personal opinions. >> > >> > I'm thinking about undertaking a project for a 2 month college assignment >> > sometime in the future to create an API wrapper and web front end with >> the >> > end goal of producing something like the rackspace or linode web-ui. I do >> > realise 'basic cloud' is a solved problem, but I'm not seeing any *open >> > source projects* that allow for user sign up, select a package offering, >> > billing, ticketing etc. along with basic instance/vm management. >> > >> >> It's kinda of nice, but I think you have proven that you can tackle a much >> more challenging problem than this one. >> >> tackle this instead: >> >> https://github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize/wiki >> >> >> > The cost of setting up a demo lab seems somewhat expensive. >> > >> > My idea was: 1 xenserver with 16gb+ ram make use of local storage, 1 >> > cloudstack manager/secondary storage 2gb+ of ram, finally something to >> host >> > the wrapper and web app. >> > >> > What hardware would you recommend for creating a budget, portable and >> quiet >> > demo lab? >> > Do you think I would be better of renting? If so are their any companies >> > you would suggestion? >> > >> >> >> >> >> > Thanks, >> > Ian >> >>
