Today's Project - Setting up Harvester HCI

[Rick Butler]

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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[Samuel Gugliotta]

Going to try and be in your Sneak Peek today. Keep your numbers up and all. In class at that time. Will definitely follow up afterwards. Good luck. Know you will do spectacular.

 

[Rick Butler]

Going to try and be in your Sneak Peek today. Keep your numbers up and all. In class at that time. Will definitely follow up afterwards. Good luck. Know you will do spectacular.

Thank you so much for your support, Sam.!

 

[Rick Butler]

Round two - I'm up to six nodes, with another 12 on deck to go in. Turning into quite an insightful project - may have to have my crew in Albuquerque build one and see what Rancher is like in managing them.

 

[starg33ker@CCST]

I'm intrigued!

 

[Rick Butler]

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.

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[starg33ker@CCST]

Where did you set up these machines to run 24/7? Do you have your own network closet / server room off your classroom?