I'm planning to build a small render farm for my 3D work at home.
I have a good workstation and I am gonna start with 16 nods (i7 3770 / 8GB ram / HDD and MOBO with 1000Mbps LAN in a mini case) another 16 to be added latter for this part of the hardware configuration
I am Ok with.
For the network part I have a lot of questions right here:
1- for network management -I don't know anything about building, managing, controlling & Monitoring a network-
2- should I have a different computer other than the workstation to manage the network through
3- for storage: should I have a NAS storage or I can work on the work station HDD
4- for network hardware: switches, cables, speed ???
5- should I support the nods or the workstation with two LAN cards
6- for software (???????????????)
what I have been told is:
- working on 1000 Mbps is gonna make a big difference over 100Mbps, so I should buy switch and cables that support this speed and the LAN card in each nod and the workstation of course.
Briefly I want to build a stable, secure and affordable network for RENDER (In details and step-by-step).
I have a good workstation and I am gonna start with 16 nods (i7 3770 / 8GB ram / HDD and MOBO with 1000Mbps LAN in a mini case) another 16 to be added latter for this part of the hardware configuration
I am Ok with.
For the network part I have a lot of questions right here:
1- for network management -I don't know anything about building, managing, controlling & Monitoring a network-
2- should I have a different computer other than the workstation to manage the network through
3- for storage: should I have a NAS storage or I can work on the work station HDD
4- for network hardware: switches, cables, speed ???
5- should I support the nods or the workstation with two LAN cards
6- for software (???????????????)
what I have been told is:
- working on 1000 Mbps is gonna make a big difference over 100Mbps, so I should buy switch and cables that support this speed and the LAN card in each nod and the workstation of course.
Briefly I want to build a stable, secure and affordable network for RENDER (In details and step-by-step).