I am building my personal private cloud. I am considering using second hand dell optiplexes as worker nodes, but they only have 1 NIC and I’d need a contraption like this for my redundant network.

Then this wish came to my mind. Theoretically, such a one box solution could be faster than gigabit too.

  • akash_rawal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If redundant everything is important then you need to change your planning toward proper rack servers and switches

    I ain’t got that budget man.

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Then skip redundant networking and use that cash on the router hardware such that you get enough ports that you won’t need a switch

      • akash_rawal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It is for a challenge, the goal is to build a cloud with workload decoupled from servers decoupled from users who’d deploy the workload, with redundant network and storage, no single choke point for network traffic, and I am trying to achieve this with a small budget.