[Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?

Abel Lopez alopgeek at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 20:19:48 UTC 2015


There is DIY LOM for the NUC, it was demo'd at Paris Summit. It was quite elegant, featuring LEGO Mindstorm robots being instructed to push the power button.

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) <wasnow at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> So as to 10g, it’s not like I’m going to use them for production :)
> 
> I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – the dual interface would be nice, but I can work around that.
> I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy the others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so you can very easily connect your cloud to your network.
> 
> This allows my developers to test real multinode deploys of openstack repeatedly without the expense of 3 rack servers, and they can carry around the cloud to meetups or whereever they want to go.
> 
> There are a few tweaks to what we’re doing that are based on feedback from what we’ve built already. I use the NUCs as the price point is good, and Intel is down the street from me :)
> 
> Shameless plug: more details in our talk at the vancouver if it gets accepted.
> 
> --Will Snow
> wasnow at cisco.com
> Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
> Mobile: +1-650-544-5460
> 
> From: matt
> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM
> To: will snow
> Cc: Christian Berendt, "openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org <mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>"
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device openstack ) ?
> 
> 3)  no 10 gig.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, matt <matt at nycresistor.com <mailto:matt at nycresistor.com>> wrote:
> i dislike 2 things about the NUCs...
> 
> 1)  only a single interface
> 2)  no lights out management
> 
> =/
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) <wasnow at cisco.com <mailto:wasnow at cisco.com>> wrote:
> Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March
> (scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that.
> Which would make things a bit tight for my talk at Vancouver (if it gets
> accepted)
> 
> --Will Snow
> wasnow at cisco.com <mailto:wasnow at cisco.com>
> Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering
> Mobile: +1-650-544-5460 <tel:%2B1-650-544-5460>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/11/15, 3:33 AM, "Christian Berendt" <christian at berendt.io <mailto:christian at berendt.io>> wrote:
> 
> >On 02/06/2015 10:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote:
> >> I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been
> >> quite happy with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if you
> >> need storage.
> >
> >I think NUCs are a greate choice.
> >
> >According to
> >http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unveils-nuc-mini-pc-core-i7-broadwell <http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unveils-nuc-mini-pc-core-i7-broadwell>.
> >html
> >NUCs with i7 CPUs should be released this year.
> >
> >More details at
> >http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview.html <http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview.html>.
> >
> >Christian.
> >
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