Im so glad I stumbled on this site months ago. Great to see some true robust testing of the Ryzen platform going on.You can get a lot of stuff working on Ryzen that does not normally work by disabling SMT and other features (depending on the bug).
But - then you are at an 8C / 8T CPU and you are losing significant performance.
There are a lot of reviewers disabling SMT and other features BTW and not disclosing that they are doing so to get things to "work."
You do also need a supported NIC (or an image with drivers) and etc as many of the lower-end boards are using Realtek NICs.
Other features you will want are IPMI because, at some point, you will likely see a crash even with SMT off and need to reboot. I have been working on this and running at load for a few weeks now. It is still not 100% stable by any means with SMT off.
If you really want ESXi and Zen, may be good to wait a bit.
Remember - we have had 6 of these in the data center now with 23 different organizations on them testing software since their release. That does not include two systems I have and one for William.
Will you be testing Ryzen with U1 on its release?@browned ESXi 6.5u1 should fix the issue. I am not spending more time on it in the meantime.
Same!!Sorry to revive an old post. Now that 6.5u1 has been released for some time, has anyone re-tested Ryzen on ESXi with SMT enabled again to see if it is a viable ESXi home server?
As of now cost, availability and TDP. Supposedly the lower-end EPYC is supposed to be about $500 which is close to price of Ryzen 1800X, but they are unavailable for us mere mortals to buy and only available for 2P servers. The lowest single socket is the 16 core close to $750 along with a single socket IPMI-enabled server motherboard for it as well. Plus TDP of an 1800X is about 95W, but TDP of new EPYC is close to 150W, although both of those are better then the AMD 9590FX i am replacing @ 220W.Why would anyone want Ryzen now that EPYC is out?
Huh? This site had the EPYC 7251 review Dual AMD EPYC 7251 Linux Benchmarks Least Expensive 2P EPYCAs of now cost, availability and TDP. Supposedly the lower-end EPYC is supposed to be about $500 which is close to price of Ryzen 1800X, but they are unavailable for us mere mortals to buy and only available for 2P servers. The lowest single socket is the 16 core close to $750 along with a single socket IPMI-enabled server motherboard for it as well. Plus TDP of an 1800X is about 95W, but TDP of new EPYC is close to 150W, although both of those are better then the AMD 9590FX i am replacing @ 220W.
I'm wondering:Huh? This site had the EPYC 7251 review Dual AMD EPYC 7251 Linux Benchmarks Least Expensive 2P EPYC
You can run 7251 in 1P
TDP of the 7251 is 120 which is fine for all off the PCIe and extra RAM capacity
Ryzen only supports 64GB which is less than a modern Atom
We just ordered a test system with the 7281 so they're available now.