Recent content by kapone

Well aware of them. If I had to use those...I might as well use the Delta 1212SHE 38mm fans (which I do use). Even at 50% PWM (~1400rpm) they're close to silent and push way more air than the Noctuas.

You could...but you shouldn't. The 847 can hold 36 LFF drives...the Noctuas don't hold a candle to cooling that many drives.

The 847 can be…tweaked…to be quieter. I use the Norco fan wall to put 120mm fans it, but there are other ways. With SQ power supplies in it, it is no louder than an 846 (that I mod similarly).

This is exactly what I mean by "arcane commands". So...some repo on GitHub says...do this. Really? No, I'm not gonna do it. Either I'm gonna figure it out the hard way, or wait till the PVE devs get their **it together and actually implement it right. All of this is gobblygook, it is...

On a side note, don’t even get me started on PVE’s management IP setup… It will grab an IP from the DHCP server during install, just fine…and then use it as a static IP…and not really tell you… What brilliant mind thought of that? And if you really wanna use a dynamic IP for...

I‘ve been watching this with mild interest for a while…but honestly? I don’t get it… Are we playing with Legos now ??

For data centers and hyper scalers and the likes of AWS, Azure, GCP etc, yes. For the average SMB or homelabber, 40/56gb networking is still...well..rare. Problem is the infra, not just the nics and the ability to configure and manage it on an on-going basis. You see a fair number of 10g...

Update 2: The OVS issue turned out to be a blonde moment on my part and not getting the config right. SR-IOV works just fine with an OVS bond/bridge with the CX3 adapters. Oh, and RDMA on the VF adapters (Linux guests only) works great as well with PVE.

That's perfectly fine. If you don't need/want it, you don't. But...:) In the era of storage devices becoming extremely fast... *cough* NVME...a fast network fabric is almost a necessity if you're doing anything more than typical home networking. I realize SR-IOV/RDMA/ROCE is not for everybody...

It doesn't.

Not true. SR-IOV can be used with LXC containers as well and if you're looking for low latency networking, it's a must. And if the hardware supports it, why wouldn't you?

I'll give you one small example. SR-IOV... In Hyper-V you just include "-EnableIov" when creating your vswitch. That's it. After that when creating your VMs either through the GUI or script, just include "Enable SR-IOV" and any VLANs and everything just works. In PVE...write some arcane...

Of course. But the point I was trying to make was that while choosing your "long term" base OS, I lean towards OSs that have native containers support now. Yes, being able to run VMs is a requirement, but it's below containers. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor as long as you have a need to be...

No native containers support. VMs are trending towards being a dead technology.

That works as well of course, but depending on the use case, privileged might be needed. My apologies, I should have qualified that.