Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:09:02 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:41:13 -0400
> > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > To give an idea of what you might buy:
> > >
> > > a firewall/router
> > > a switch
> > > a load-balancer
> > > 2 web servers
> > > a database server
> > > a mail server
> > > a general utility box with lots of storage to handle backups
> > >
> > > All of those duties except the switch can reasonable be run on
> > > Debian servers.
> >
> > I'm curious, although I don't know much about, and have little
> > experience with, enterprise hardware. Am I correct in my understanding
> > that it is actually possible to run (more-or-less) Debian on a switch
> > by using OpenSwitch (OPX) on an Open Networking switch. I have no idea
> > if this would be cost-effective in the OP's situation - basic switches
> > are certainly a whole lot cheaper than the ones I looked at on the
> > OPX HCL.
>
> Yes, and yes, those are fairly high-end switches compared to
> what people tend to use in homes and offices.
>
> In many situations, people don't even need a manageable
> switch. Once you start to exceed, say, 40 connections, a managed
> switch becomes first useful and then necessity. When you need
> multi-chassis failover and intra-switch links of more complexity
> than "each desktop gets an 8 port gig-e switch with one used as
> an uplink to the office switch", you need high-end switch
> features.
Gotcha. I did realize that those were higher on the food chain when I
saw that they started at 10GB and went up from there ...
Celejar
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