My two RK1 modules came in the mail and can finally power this thing up!
Very excited to see what I can make them do. Currently working on getting just one to boot right now. Then I gotta do some research and see if I can just PXE boot these from the network.
I’ve begun the task of migrating services onto this. First and foremost was internal DNS and the local Asterisk server. Great success!
The “new” part for me in all of this is migrating my existing infrastructure from dedicated VMs to LXC containers in addition to a complete platform shift away from x86_64 to arm64. The performance on these little compute modules is really good!
This specific model of the RK1 is the 32GB revision so lots of ram and lots of cpu power at a maximum TDP of 7 Watts.
I could easily see myself later down the line purchasing and filling the other two slots on this board with 2 more RK1 modules for a total capacity of 128 GB of ram (32x4) and 32 cores (8x4).
Although I’ll want to have figured out storage first before that. As it stands currently both RK1 modules have access to their own dedicated SSD but module 3 is providing the iscsi target for module 1 until I can get two m.2 drives of adequate size to hold everything. Right now it’s just two 128 GB ssds.
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