April 27 2013. Two HP Z210 Xeon boxes, PXE booting SmartOS off the Ubuntu Lenovo Ideacentre (middle), running Project FiFo. Dec 23 2014. SDC Home installation. In both Z210 systems I have two additional Intel NIC cards, one 1Gb and one 10Gb (CX4 copper, 2 ports). They are PXE booted off one NIC and use a point-to-point CX4 10Gb copper link between them for moving data. They support two internal HDD, so my zpools are mirrored. The Z210 small-form-factor hardware is reasonably portable, low power draw, and runs in my home office behind a DD-wrt router. This is going into production as a dedicated build farm, for the TraDES executables, with about 20 VMs (mostly 32 and 64 bit linux variants, illumos, FreeBSD, GitLab, etc) once deployed. So after over a year of sitting in boxes after I moved, I never did finish the build farm on FiFO. Since SDC was open-sourced, and since I needed more disk space, I acquired a Lenovo D20 Thinkstation, upgraded it and |