[Arm-dev] What's the best support hardware model ?

Tue Dec 1 12:36:09 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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:
> 
> https://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx

I believe the viridis platform has been discontinued for a few years now,


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