[AusNOG] The Cloud

[Jake Anderson]

or you could just give these guys some money
http://www.zdnet.com/canonicals-cloud-in-a-box-the-ubuntu-orange-box-7000029575/

On 16/07/14 18:18, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> Cloud in a box is easy..
>
> 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
>
>
>
> On 16 July 2014 16:59, Lloyd Wood <lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     You can't fund 'the cloud - in a box'.
>
>     Because it's vapourware.
>     Lloyd Wood
>
>     lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>     http://about.me/lloydwood
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>     On Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 16:54, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au
>     <mailto:kauer at biplane.com.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:36 +1000, Curtis Bayne wrote:
>     > Cloud? In a box? Someone give this man some venture capital.
>
>     Seriously - you do NOT want to fund a server that has to be kick
>     started :-)
>
>     And anyway - the size of the box is prohibitive.
>
>     Regards, K.
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