On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Andy Davidson
This is interesting to me, because I have been looking to replace some of my hosted VM infrastructure with low power devices such as the ones discussed in this thread. They would make ideal static webservers, recursive dns servers for our offices, development and staging environments, and some of our internal apps. The Soekris units have a reseller channel who bundle the boards with power supplies and a 1U case.
My motivation ? Each VM costs me 20W of power. One of the Soekris units runs in 10W.
A few big firms are looking "physicalization" (yeah, that's the buzzword). Which is really designed to squeeze lots of medium-spec'd servers into a rack. Look at something like the Dell XS11-VX8 (fortuna) [1] which uses has 6 servers per RU. Intel was also talking about a standard [2] However the pages I have seen for this have goals of 20-30W per machine which probably isn't what you want. I'm not sure if some of the CPUs in this area are have the VM instructions either. This may be more what you are after: http://www.linux-arm.org/Main/LinuxArmOrg However if you are only deploying a few units it might not be worth it. I make it at $2/month/server for a 10W saving. [1] http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/b/direct2dell/archive/2009/05/19/del... [2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10386452-264.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea... -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.