What OS's is used for cluster server solutions?......... [closed/solved]

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Hi all :smiley:

I have always been in the hardware corner and networking… and only jumped in a few times to give an extra hand for setting up windows clients… on the server side, i have only handle the hardware setup, maintenance, repair or replacement/upgrades… My coworkers did the software part and i never saw what they did as i was busy with my stuff.

But now i have started to dip my toes in the setup of the servers software/OS’s… (home-lab on my spare time) and i have been using Linux as daily driver for six years… so I’m not totally noob on Linux and windows :joy:

But you guys that actually does this for a living with setting up servers :slight_smile:
My question is… If i want to set up 5-10 servers for a cluster server solution with load balancing…
What OS’s is commonly used and what software to go for?

If there is more then one solution or several use cases , I’m happy to hear about them all as i want to dig in to more then one solution for learning. :nerd_face:
I dont expect you guys to hold my hand with a step by step guide, (even if i would love to have a guide to follow as starting point). :smiley:
but a point in the right direction would be appreciated, so i can save a week or three of dead end googling. :hugs:

Take care you all :slight_smile:
//Marie

Edit:
(I will be using old HP servers in my lab)

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Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Are you wanting VM’s? Containers? Shared backend storage? What kind of networking? There is a lot to consider then to ask for something that clusters.:slightly_smiling_face:

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I’m trying to learn it all :innocent: as i want to be able to set up different stuff.

One thing that just hit me while i was making my night sandwiches (its 3:30am over here in sweden)… That is to run a cloud AI over several servers for more hardware resources*(computing capacity)* to the AI engine…

Edit:
also when doing AI training or astronomy calculations or some of the big cloud services you have clusters that works as one machine, as you cant fit 1000GPU’s or 100CPU’s in one machine.

this is what i want to learn how to connect several or hundreds of servers in to one big entity so one or several apps can use them all as one machine for massive calculations etc.