Recent content by coolrunnings82

Hahaha, yeah I know I know. "Starting" was a euphemism. Why not ESXi? Size of environment. If VMWare hadn't crippled the free version by not allowing API access I'd be all over that but I need to be able to do orderly shutdowns via a UPS and back VMs up with Veeam. That rules out ESXi as their...

Correction. It's not Windows defender. Went bare-metal and all is good. I'm starting to hate Microsoft's lack of QC.

I think I may have figured this out. Still doing checking but I think it's Windows Defender scanning the files and making CPU usage go nuts.

Environment: Dell T30 Onboard Intel 219-LM NIC E3 1225 V5 16gb RAM 500gb Crucial MX500 for host OS 1tb Samsung 860 EVO for single VM Running Server 2019 Essentials with no additional roles than Hyper-V. Single VM running 2019 Essentials. Allocated 2 vCPUs (tried it with 4, no difference), 10gb...

Have not tried Memtest86+ but did try it on an identical model of server/board/bios but different CPU...

I just recently got a couple Poweredge T140 servers in for a couple clients. One has an i3 8100, the other has a Intel Xeon E-2136. The Xeon one fails every memory test I throw at it with Memtest86 8.2. I've replaced the RAM with known good RAM - including the RAM from the other T140 and it...

That's good to know! Thank you for the feedback!

What type of issues? I know not to mix and match SATA with SAS. What happens with SAS drives that are not Dell branded?

Yeah I run 3x R720's here with H710 controllers on the latest firmware and I'm using Intel DC3700 SSDs and Seagate Enterprise 8tb drives and the only prompts I get are that the drives aren't certified (not that I give a rat's backside). That said, someone on Reddit was mentioning that. Here's a...

Hey anyone know if Dell is back to blocking non-branded drives in their RAID controllers? I was reading something about them blocking consumer SSDs but was curious if they block enterprise drives like the HGST HC510. Any first hand experience one these two RAID controllers with non-Dell branded...

Great seller! Cleaning out my homelab or I'd be buying some of this stuff!

Own 3x R720's and after working with these vs a bunch of HP hardware, Dell is such a drastic improvement!

Anyone interested in a heavily modified 846 with a TQ backplane? If so, contact me. I consolidated my servers to some Dell R720's and as such have an 846 I gutted and put in a 120mm fan wall + modified for a standard PC power supply... Willing to let it go pretty cheap.

I did that last night and it still wasn't showing up. I'll reboot when I get back to the office and check again. I manually ran many of those benchmarks that were in your guide, @gea and I got MUCH better results with Optane. I'm thinking the problem is related to my 10G networking more than the...

I'm on 17.06 free but don't have the syncwrite benchmark showing up...