Recent content by EloquentSrv

Does the H810 work in HP and ASUS motherboards?

I made a fairly significant misjudgement in making a .RAW KVM image. Seems like I could have made a much smaller disk: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 15G 2.1G 12G 15% / tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/vda3 24G 2.8G 20G 13%...

Hi STH community, I was searching for the Icy Dock 3.5" drive bay converter and spotted these for the Gen8 microserver on ebay New HP 2 5" to 3 5" SATA SSD HDD Adapter 4 Microserver Gen8 N54L N40L N36 | eBay Has anyone tried these with the Dell C6100 or HP DL180 G6 3.5" bays? I thought this...

Good clarifications. Thanks. I was typing on my phone so not a complete dissertation on this. I would mention that we have used expander ports to link to drives rather than chassis in many occasions and the result was it worked each time. I think most expanders work more or less like switches.

Does IPMI touch only do ON/OFF or can it also do KVM?

Sure so think of a port as a direct attach channel. 1 port of SAS2 = 6.0gb/s so 4 ports = 24gb/s You can use expanders to "breakout" a 4 port SAS2 interface into many more disks, and you can chain expanders. Think of this in networking like you took a cable with 4x gigabit links and connected a...

Hi, We have many servers with IPMI but different brands. Each server has some IPMI 2.0 compliant interface. I tried the article I found here on IPMIview but it only does kvm for Supermicro not other brands like Dell and ASUS. I'd hope someone here has found a better solution. Here's what I...