It’s a 2U, 4 node SuperMicro chassi… If i had a bit more foresight, i would have virtualized our iworx machines in a openstack cloud on them… Now i will have to wait until next round of hw investment to start migrating the shared environment.
When i fired them up for the first time to check the watt drain… It sounded like a jet engine.
Previoisly, we leased servers… This was the first time we invested in our own hardware… Some lessons where learned…