<div dir="ltr">Cloud in a box is easy..<div><br></div><div>Supermicro microcloud chassis. Two blades with 2x 1tb SSD's in each in raid-1, replicated using some kind of distributed filesystem. iSCSI export from each. Six more blades running XenServer or Vmware, your choice. Pointing at the iscsi exports using multipath for failover. 10GbE NIC's in each blade, 10GbE switch on top, shove it all in a 4RU roadcase, and bingo 'Cloud in a box'. :D</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2014 16:59, Lloyd Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>You can't fund 'the cloud - in a box'.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10.6667px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal">
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</span></div><div class=""><div> </div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 16:54, Karl Auer <<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div>On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:36 +1000, Curtis Bayne wrote:<br clear="none">
> Cloud? In a box? Someone give this man some venture capital.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Seriously - you do NOT want to fund a server that has to be kick<br clear="none">started :-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">
And anyway - the size of the box is prohibitive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards, K.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br clear="none">
Karl Auer (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>)<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer" target="_blank">http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer</a><br clear="none">
<a shape="rect" href="http://twitter.com/kauer389" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/kauer389</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882<br clear="none">Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A<div>
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