Multi Board | Virtualisation | Server Grade | Multi Chasis

[smitjainsj]

Hello Friends,

 

First of all thanks to this community, which has always helped me to narrow down my search.

I am planning for new upgrade for my office and i need your assistance guyz.

 

I am from India ,just FYI and rig will be purchased Delhi,India

 

Requirement:

• Multi Board Chasis (atleast 4 or more)
• Dual Core or I3 based system CPU
• Motherboard for dual or i3 (prefer mini ITX)
• Power Supply or Single Power supply for all.
• RAM ( i am planning of 4x1 Gig on each board)
• 1 HDD on each
• Linux will the OS.

 

I am looking cheap solution right and should be able to scale in future.

 

Thanks

[Streetguru]

Hello Friends,

What are you doing that you need 4 PCs? or at least 4 boards

[smitjainsj]

What are you doing that you need 4 PCs? or at least 4 boards

I am setting up a lab for my office : Probably setting internal cloud or machines via vmware.

[leadeater]

I am setting up a lab for my office : Probably setting internal cloud or machines via vmware.

 

If your doing that 4GB ram per node is not going to be enough realistically. It'll work sure but your not going to get many VMs per node.

 

Also most mini ITX board I've seen only come with 2 ram slots, but I don't really look at those size boards so could be many with 4.

[Streetguru]

I am setting up a lab for my office : Probably setting internal cloud or machines via vmware.

Well, you could always go with like an 8320/E if available, AMD tend to support virtual machines a bit better than intel CPUs in general, unless you needed faster per core performance you could do it all with 1 machine, 2 cores per VM, dunno how many monitor outputs you need though, you'd need a 2nd GPU preferably from the other manufacture

There's a parts list anyways

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($119.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($30.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($57.99 @ Amazon)

Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card  ($27.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)

Total: $345.84

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-14 06:41 EST-0500

[smitjainsj]

Well, you could always go with like an 8320/E if available, AMD tend to support virtual machines a bit better than intel CPUs in general, unless you needed faster per core performance you could do it all with 1 machine, 2 cores per VM, dunno how many monitor outputs you need though, you'd need a 2nd GPU preferably from the other manufacture

There's a parts list anyways

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($119.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($30.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($57.99 @ Amazon)

Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card  ($27.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)

Total: $345.84

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-14 06:41 EST-0500

thanks for your advice...

I finally narrow down to this config :

 

AMD FX6300

GA 970 A DS3P

HDD 500Gb

 

but I need to figure out a chasis for multi motherboards..can you name some ?

 

Also do I need a Graphic card to view all these ? I will be  using single monitor only and will connect to different devices accordingly.

 

if graphics card is required then I would need another processor , Since I don't need graphics.

[Streetguru]

thanks for your advice...

I finally narrow down to this config :

 

AMD FX6300

GA 970 A DS3P

HDD 500Gb

 

but I need to figure out a chasis for multi motherboards..can you name some ?

 

Also do I need a Graphic card to view all these ? I will be  using single monitor only and will connect to different devices accordingly.

 

if graphics card is required then I would need another processor , Since I don't need graphics.

You might as well get the 8320e so you don't have to worry about not having the best CPU on the platform

 

and the only cheap AM3+ motherboard I can recommend is the ASrock board there, anything else I can't guarantee would work very well.

 

You're also going to want a KVM switch, which will let you switch one monitor/keyboard/mouse between all the PCs, there's probably VGA/USB capable ones as well

 

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=4651&gclid=CMWszO7xrcoCFc5gfgod-WsFCw

USB one, bit more expensive

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=&cs=04&sku=A1163862&dgc=ST&cid=293344&lid=5616479&acd=12309152537461010&ven1=sE1inYhPj&ven2=,

As far as multi board chassis, no clue there, you could just like screw a bunch of cheap cases to a wooden frame