On 2015-12-01 12:59, PixelDrift.NET Sam wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Gordan Bobic gordan@redsleeve.org wrote:
On 2015-12-01 12:36, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/12/15 12:32, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2015-12-01 12:12, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/12/15 10:11, Andreas Reschke wrote:
Hi there, I want to replace some servers (SOHO, Mail-, web-, Infrastructure, X86_64, all with CentOS) with ARM-Servers. I've a /home-Server with Odroid XU4 (Cloudshell) with Fedora running fine.
Are there other ARM-Devices running CentOS easy?
there are -no- ARMv7 grade server hardware available, there are single board units, none of which are capable of running infrastructure services for any reasonable performance. the cubietruck seems the most 'capable' but still falls well short of reasonable performance.
There are however ARMv8 based server's that are available, the APM Mustang class of boards are well supported in CentOS Linux 7 and are perhaps the most widely available.
this does however take into consideration my own interpretation of what might be considered 'reasonable performance'.
ARMv7 server grade hardware does exist. It wasn't so long ago that I was helping the guys at Boston get RedSleeve 6 getting up and running on their Viridis servers:
I believe the viridis platform has been discontinued for a few years now,
Has it? I seem to recall getting RSEL6 running on it 4 years ago, and it has had a refresh since then. If it has been discontinued it must have been relatively recently.
And decent ARMv8 hardware is not actually that easily available, at least in UK. There's a lot of posturing and press releases but very little actual hardware to show for it. And if you can ever find it commercially it is disproportionately expensive for what it is.
Gordan
My experience has been identical.
There appears to be a lot of talk around ARMv8, but I have been unable to find any hardware at close to reasonable prices (keen for suggestions).
I have been considering the Nvidia Shield while I wait for decent server hardware to turn up, can anyone provide feedback on this hardware?
If you don't mind it being in laptop form factor, the Samsung Chromebook 2 is really quite difficult to beat. I just got the 13" variant (had to order it from US, it's not available in other markets), and I am extremely pleased with it (4+4 cores, 4GB of RAM, 1080p screen).
Of other for factors, the top of the line SolidRun Cubox is really good.
I have RSEL running on both so getting CentOS working on them should be reasonably trivial.
Gordan