Putting Teeth in Rackspace Public Cloud

Re:Putting Teeth in Rackspace Public Cloud by mwcampbell on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:04PM (#7980635)

Do you plan to offer lower-end OnMetal nodes? For example, 16 GB of RAM, a quad-core Xeon E3 processor, and a 256 GB SSD? Presumably you could put several such nodes in one chassis to make that kind of configuration economical.

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Re:Putting Teeth in Rackspace Public Cloud by pquerna on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:17PM (#7980687)

avoiding too many forward looking statements

As a general principle we will add more form factors.

For your specific example hardware, that kind of specification could be achieved using the Open Compute Micro Servers / Server Card designs, instead of the full-on 2 processor windmill designs:

http://www.opencompute.org/assets/motherboardandserverdesign...

As you make smaller servers, things like HA-Networking become a higher portion of the cost too, so it might be more feasible if we dropped the 2x10g Bond and went to a single 10g port for example, would losing the HA networking but having those kinds of specs be interesting to you?

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Re:Putting Teeth in Rackspace Public Cloud by wmf on Thursday July 03, 2014 @03:30AM (#7981937)

I wonder if 2x2.5G (if you can get it to work) would be better than 1x10G.

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