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Configuring a multi chassis HPC cluster with 2950 head node
I think it would be beneficial to provide a video documenting how to configure a basic HPC cluster with a 2950 head node and 2 or more m1000e chassis.
We recently purchased a similar configuration, installer got everything bolted into the rack and powered on, but nothing past that. Being new to the blade arena, I found it a bit confusing how all the parts connected to form the HPC cluster.
For example, the 2950 normally would connect eth1 to the public network and eth0 to the private network, and the compute nodes would also connect to the private network. With the blades, each chassis has a 20 port GigE switch, 16 internal and 4 external, how are these supposed to be connected and configured along with eth0 on the 2950 to make up the private network.
We sysadmins can certainly figure it out, but it would make for a nice video, especially for those who are moving to blades in the future for their HPC needs.
We recently purchased a similar configuration, installer got everything bolted into the rack and powered on, but nothing past that. Being new to the blade arena, I found it a bit confusing how all the parts connected to form the HPC cluster.
For example, the 2950 normally would connect eth1 to the public network and eth0 to the private network, and the compute nodes would also connect to the private network. With the blades, each chassis has a 20 port GigE switch, 16 internal and 4 external, how are these supposed to be connected and configured along with eth0 on the 2950 to make up the private network.
We sysadmins can certainly figure it out, but it would make for a nice video, especially for those who are moving to blades in the future for their HPC needs.
