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[ChaosInMind]

I'm going to build out a pretty nice infrastructure, but it will take me a couple months. I was wondering if anyone has used OnApp? If so can you explain the absolute bare minimum I can get away with for testing/experimenting? Is it possible to have only 1 server as the hypervisor, control server, storage server, etc?

I have a pretty beefy server: 2 x Quad Cores, 24GB RAM, 500GB X4 (RAID10)


Thanks.

[leckley]

Originally Posted by ChaosInMind

I'm going to build out a pretty nice infrastructure, but it will take me a couple months. I was wondering if anyone has used OnApp? If so can you explain the absolute bare minimum I can get away with for testing/experimenting? Is it possible to have only 1 server as the hypervisor, control server, storage server, etc?

I have a pretty beefy server: 2 x Quad Cores, 24GB RAM, 500GB X4 (RAID10)


Thanks.

You should really contact their Sales team to begin the process and speak with their engineers about your specific ideas and setup.

In short, you will need about 3 machines to get started.

1x Master/Backup Server
2x HyperVisor Machines
1x SAN Array (Share or Dedicated) - Unless you are doing local storage

[ChaosInMind]

Originally Posted by leckley

You should really contact their Sales team to begin the process and speak with their engineers about your specific ideas and setup.

In short, you will need about 3 machines to get started.

1x Master/Backup Server
2x HyperVisor Machines
1x SAN Array (Share or Dedicated) - Unless you are doing local storage

I understand what it takes to get started by reading their documentation, I was mostly wondering if anyone has used just one server for learning. I'd like to install everything on a single server to just spin up 1 or 2 non prod vm's to learn the platform.

If not on a single server, can I do a bare minimum setup with 2 servers? One control/backup and one hypervisor? I figure the 2x hypervisor setup was for failover, not necessarily a hard software requirement. I'm not sure because it's not specifically stated anywhere in their documentation or website.

[Simplex-Ed]

Originally Posted by ChaosInMind

I understand what it takes to get started by reading their documentation, I was mostly wondering if anyone has used just one server for learning. I'd like to install everything on a single server to just spin up 1 or 2 non prod vm's to learn the platform.

If not on a single server, can I do a bare minimum setup with 2 servers? One control/backup and one hypervisor? I figure the 2x hypervisor setup was for failover, not necessarily a hard software requirement. I'm not sure because it's not specifically stated anywhere in their documentation or website.

Yup.

[eming]

Originally Posted by ChaosInMind

I understand what it takes to get started by reading their documentation, I was mostly wondering if anyone has used just one server for learning. I'd like to install everything on a single server to just spin up 1 or 2 non prod vm's to learn the platform.

If not on a single server, can I do a bare minimum setup with 2 servers? One control/backup and one hypervisor? I figure the 2x hypervisor setup was for failover, not necessarily a hard software requirement. I'm not sure because it's not specifically stated anywhere in their documentation or website.

you can set it up with 2 servers, but yes, you'd have no failover etc.


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[error10]

As far as I can tell from the docs, two servers is the bare minimum. Of course you won't do this in production, but if you are testing, then it should be fine.

[ChaosInMind]

Originally Posted by eming

you can set it up with 2 servers, but yes, you'd have no failover etc.

Originally Posted by error10

As far as I can tell from the docs, two servers is the bare minimum. Of course you won't do this in production, but if you are testing, then it should be fine.

This is all I was wondering. I want to have a firm understanding before I put fourth a full investment of two additional hypervisors, a storage array/network, and a backup server.

Thank you all for the help!

[InfiniteTech]

Originally Posted by error10

As far as I can tell from the docs, two servers is the bare minimum. Of course you won't do this in production, but if you are testing, then it should be fine.

You wont be able to test failover/HA though. In my opinion, its kind of the core feature of any 'cloud computing' platform.

[Exerox]

I agree with InfiniteTech, for proper learning etc, you need to learn about the full integration. Otherwise you don't have a cloud at all, just a master and slave.

I guess you're wanting more-so to kind of get to grips with the master panel?

[NexDog]

Yep, you should get a cheapo $50/mo server just to test the failover. As it's a core feature you won't benefit from a full learning experience without it (like the iSCSI IQN settings etc).

[Shinjiru Technology]

1 x OnApp Control Panel server
8GB RAM (16GB+ recommended)
Dual or Quad Core 2Ghz+
100GB Raid 1
2x Gig NIC
CentOS 5
2 x Hypervisor servers
8GB+ RAM
Quad Core 2Ghz+
30GB HD (SSD recommended)
3 x Gig NIC (4 recommended)
CentOS 5
1 x Data store
1TB block storage
iSCSI, AoE or Fiber – it can even be on a shared SAN
1 x Backup store
2TB+ NAS
Alternatively, a large HD can be used on the Control Panel server

Check the following page for more info regarding OnApp requirements,
http://onapp.com/cloud/requirements/