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Today's Project - Setting up Harvester HCI

Rick Butler

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  • Aug 8, 2019
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    Anyone here ever do this?

    I'm talking, of course, about Harvester HCI - an open-source packaged, production ready Hyperconverged Infrastructure, designed to leverage simple bare-metal boxes and create clusters. Runs on SUSE Linux.

    So, I took a few HP EliteDesk Micros, (Sixth Gen Core i5, 16GB, 340GB SDD) and constructed one. Super simple to get going. The plan is to take about 18 of these and build a functioning HCI that we can then leverage to do actual 'cloud-y' things (VM's, demonstrate scaled computing, etc). We'll see how it goes but I wanted to share this and see how many of you all have used this.

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    I'm intrigued!
    It's been a pretty fun project so far.

    Granted, I'm not putting up massive big-iron servers and building the next IBM Watson.

    Kinda daft that I have ten nodes and only a little over 3TiB of storage space. But each machine has only about 333GiB worth of storage. Experimental for sure, but still...

    I've loaded Win11, Ubuntu 20.04 and CBL Mariner-2. No VMs yet. Soon though. Trying to do this right.

    /r

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