Jason, Unless you're operating at Google scale, it doesn't make economic sense to build your own unless you're *really into that*. Most major vendors (HP, Dell, SuperMicro) will offer a configuration that is very suitable for Hadoop.
Regards, - P On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jason Lotz <jasonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are in the process of analyzing our options for the future purchases of > our Hadoop/HBase DN/RS servers. Currently, we purchase Dell PowerEdge > R710's which work well for us. However, we know that there are other > options that may give us more bang for our buck. > > I'm not as interested in knowing the specs of the machines that people are > using. Rather, I'm curious to know where you buy them from or if you are > building them yourselves. > > Any feedback on how you acquire server hardware in your environment would > be > greatly appreciated. > > Jason >
