Render farm using HP C7000 Blade

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After searching the net for advice on a good cheap render farm option, found this HP C7000 blade on ebay for $1990 with 5 blades and a sas HDD array. Looked for more BL465c and picked up 6 more for $250 each and bought another couple as spare and made another unit out of them. Total price of around $3500 AUD and I have the equivlant of 12 mid point i7's with 8Gb ram in each and 72Gb HDD's. Which works out much cheaper and much more convenient that some of the half baked home made jobs i've seen on You tube !!!. Considering a i7 in Australia can cost around $1000 AUD.

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I just bought a HP Proliant DL580 G7 for rendering, thought I understand the basics of the setup but now I'm stuck.
Do I have to install vray in the server as well? Or will the distributed rendering recognize the server's cpu's? The server has windows server 2012 r2, but you say you have windows 7 on your blades. I thought only a windows server would be able to recongnize all the 40 cpu's and the hundrends of gigabytes of ram?

This is extremely interesting. Thanks for posting. Can I ask how many different circuits you have that on? I see 2 UPS to is it just on two circuits?

...What do you think of Autodesk's BackBurner?

Hello , Wondering please how could you install Windows 7 on these blade servers and please list the model of those blades

I love the laundry on the server rack enclosure. Domesticated data center... LOL!!!

cost ?

Could a similar system use graphics cards instead of CPUs to render it faster and more efficiently?

could you set something up like this to change the format of a video file? format x to mkv was what i was thinking

Hello @mizpar, I have a oportunity to set a similar set with a HP C7000 with 4 blades to use in my studio for rendering, but I´m searching for someone that already did it and I founded your video! Can you get me a help telling me what I need to configure it to use as renderfarm with 3dsmax and vray? Thanks in advance

You should try openstack to auto scale up your renders, and then scale back down when not in use

what is per cpu model ? how much do you have a pc ? total cpu 8 16 24 ?

I would prefer using some online rendering service instead of building my own render farm. It could be much more cost effective.

hi can i have your contact information, i want to buy one too and need your advice, i need it for 3d max

where can i get some of these?? i wouold love to order from amazon but sometimes the employees just throws around the package. like what happened to my pc. destroyed. :( any safe way to get this deliveered?

What software are you using?

Question in regards to your power...
How have you connected it to your homes power?
I just bought 3x c7000's with about 20 blades, I have also purchased a Single Phase power module to swap out the 3 Phase. But haven't worked out the power issues. Also, how much does it cost you do run?

What do you use a render farm for? Is it for solidworks and software like that???

CAN ANYONE GIVE HELPFUL TIPS: I HAVE A GROUP OF EDITORS USING BASICALLY ADOBE PREMIERE AND FCP BUT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THEM EXPORT OUR PROJECTS FASTER USING A RENDER FARM (IF ITS POSSIBLE) HOW DO I GO ABOUT THIS? THANKS

I don't think 8 GB ram is enough for a lot of scenes.

hi
what application you using for rendering and what is method of submission i have c7000 ready with windows7 ultimate 64 bit any recomendations or steps to configure render farm?