Tag: virtualization
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Compute Nodes
All three compute nodes are Lenovo M73s with Intel Core i5-4590 processors, 16 GB of DDR3-1600 RAM, 500 GB SATA disks, built-in Realtek 1 Gb NICs, and PCI Express Realtek 1 Gb cards. It’s useful to have at least three nodes in any cluster. In a cluster with three nodes, a quorum (majority) requires at…
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updates on this project
Unfortunately, the COVID shelter in place order has kind of thrown a few wrenches into this project. The group that I was buying my used gear from had to close their doors for an undetermined period. The group that I was working with is https://www.freeitathens.org/. They are a great group of people doing a good…
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Reason for this blog
I’ve been working for several years with containers and Kubernetes, and I’ve been working with hypervisors/virtual machines for at least a decade. Most commercial production work has been implemented in the Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, AWS, and friends. However, in the interest of saving on the commercial cloud costs(I was working for a startup), …