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vSphere on Open Compute – Part 2, Make it Hurt!

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It’s been longer than I’d have liked to put some stress on the OCP box. For some history my home lab, thanks to some kind folks, inherited a G1 Intel OCP Platform. I’ve posted about it a few times: Open Compute and vSphere 5: https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/03/open-compute-platform-vsphere-5/ The lab setup: https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/04/vsphere-on-open-compute-part-1-lab-setup/ In that second post I promised
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vSphere on Open Compute – Part 1 Lab Setup

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This is part one of a few part series on the test I’m going to put the OCP Platform through. This first test will describe how the lab is setup. Next will be some basic “ghetto” load tests. Finally, we’ll throw some VDI at it. The Hardware Compute For compute, we’ll be using the v1.0
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Open Compute Platform & vSphere 5

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So, outside of a few home drama items recently, there has been a new addition from the Open Compute Platform project, and that is a v 1.0 Intel platform. About Open Compute In April 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (Announcement) with a stated goal of making servers and datacenters more efficient. The 1.0
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