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Seemingly reasonably priced for the UK - Mellanox SX6018 18x QSFP 56G FDR Managed Switch | eBay They also have a SX6036for £388 but only one. - Mellanox SX6036 - 36xQSFP FDR InfiniBand Switch | eBay

The Process to install the OS is the same for all EX switches. Its described here: [EX] Performing and resolving any common issues during Format Install on legacy EX platforms also there is no Base licence on the EX and all the licencing is optional so you can use all the features with a nag...

Are you getting the U boot output from the console when you boot? if not the your SOL and you have a paper weight

Thats good to hear. the 4 i bought turn up on Wednesday si ill probably be doing the same thing.

I cant remeber how i did it but i definatly got it to work. it was however a bit jank. the x710 is fully supported on win11

Intel dropped support for that card on win11. you can use the windows 10 drivers without issue iirc

Speak for yourself :D . Also I'm looking to use them at home and the noise of 2u units tends to vary wildly hence asking

what is noise like on these does anyone know? I'm expecting very noisy as alot of quanta gear is.

Ebay DE has Vat included

I'm still getting this from the main page.

Probably the Intel SOC ones which I believe are x557

Back again at a £200 but with both coolers https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275846263303

vyos on commodity hardware could manage this. Are you taking multiple tables from multiple upstreams or just one upstream? If is one upstream then you can take just a default route and use a cheap layer3 switch.

Rails from the same seller - £20 Cisco UCS-C220 C240 M3 M4 M5 retractable Rack Mount Rail kit PN: 800-43376-02 | eBay 8 Caddys from same seller for - £40 8 X Cisco UCS C220 C240 C480 ML M5 SAS/SATA 2.5" HDD Caddy 74-113290-01 w/screws | eBay

I have a strong feeling the internal ssd is dead