[Server-devel] Target price and quantitiy

Christopher Niemöller nfinfo at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 13:11:06 EDT 2008


Sounds nice, but the pc is not really rugged, have you tested it with
hight temperatures and humidity?

How stable is the power supply in Uruguay?

best regards,

Christopher

2008/6/23 Tony Pearson <tpearson at us.ibm.com>:
>
>> From: " Christopher Niem?ller "
>> I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware
>> and got some questions.
>>
>> Whats the target price for the school server?
>> How many school server are needed anyway?
>> Whats the typical power source for the server? 12V DC or 24V DC or
>> 110V AC or 230V AC?
>> What are the other conditions like temperature and humidity? Would it
>> be enough if the server is capable of operating between 0?-55?C and
>> 0-90% humidity?
>> Which outlets are really needed (w/ switch)?
>> I guess something like:
>> -4x Ethernet (over the switch)
>> -4x USB2.0
>> -1x Power
>> Is something like a vga, p/s2, rs232, ... needed?
>
> Chris, I put together a school server from parts at a local computer supply
> store for $530.  This
> is for a project for OLPC Uruguay (
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project )
>
> The full parts list is here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw
>
> In addition to XS, I also have Fedora 7 and Debian 4 Etch installed in a
> multi-boot GRUB.
> The software installation:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-hw
>
> The entire machine needs only a single RJ45 Ethernet connection.  I am able
> to access
> the system remotely from my Windows PC using OpenSSH.  I have created a
> customized
> SysRescCD that allows me to boot into SSHD mode to perform the install and
> admin remotely.
>
> Currently, I have it set up as a  RAID1 mirror between two 160GB drives, but
> I have two
> 30GB un-raided partitions, for a total space of 190GB.  The implementation
> could easily
> accomodate larger or more drives to have the 500GB Wad suggests.
>
> I need to figure out Moodle+PostgreSQL this week, then I ship it off to its
> final destination.
>
> Thanks
> Tony Pearson
> Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™
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