NUC based server?

[Miles Fidelman]

I currently run several servers in a data center that are nearing end-of-life.  I'm kind of thinking of putting together something a little more portable than rack-mount boxes - that can be staged in one place - basically shoebox servers that can be staged in one location, then shipped somewhere else; and also used in a small office environment as local servers in a distributed network.  Or perhaps used as in an ad-hoc tactical deployment - say to support a network stood-up to support emergency response (data center in a shipping case).

 

I'm wondering if anybody has put together a high-reliability NUC-based server in a small chassis - a couple of power supplies, a bunch of disks, and a bunch of NUC boards, some for storage handling, some as essentially blade servers.  If so, can you share your configuration?

 

Thanks very much,

 

Miles Fidelman

[SupaKomputa]

You can just rent a cheap outdated servers and get better performance than a NUC.

Try https://www.hetzner.com/sb?country=us

[Mikensan]

NUC is essentially a mini-itx SOC, which you could really customize what you want. I've seen people use NUCs as hypervisors all clustered together. Just depends on what you hope to achieve and if the NUCs will have enough throughput.