Recent content by marv

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    vCenter and RAM

    per VM EVC is supported officially. you just need VM with virtual hw version 14 or higher. its in VM configure tab under vmware EVC section
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    YuanLey YS25-0402 Fanless 4-port 2.5GbE 2-port 10GbE Switch Review

    I found new lowest price, vendor name is hisource and on aliexpres 4+2 variant is 43 USD including EU VAT and free shipping. They also have 8+1 and also both in PoE variants. I am missing variant with both poe and management for good price :) Also shame I dont have much use for it yet.
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    HP Z2 mini G9 - upgrade CPU to Raptor Lake, getting PCA not fully compatible warning

    Sorry I dont have response neither from HP support forum, nor from local service partner. And I stopped actively pursuing solution, because I left my i9-13900 in that new one I bought.
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    HP Z2 mini G9 - upgrade CPU to Raptor Lake, getting PCA not fully compatible warning

    I have one newer piece which arrived this week, placed i9-13900 there, and it works fine. Board revision is same as the one from September last year. I raised hw support request to hp partner, will see what they reply.
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    HP Z2 mini G9 - upgrade CPU to Raptor Lake, getting PCA not fully compatible warning

    Hi, I upgraded HP Z2 Mini G9 from i7-12700 to i9-13900. Now every POST, there is warning "Hardware configuration mismatch: Current PCA is not fully compatible to support Intel Gen 13th Processor." (see uploaded image) After pressing enter, computer boots. What is PCA and how to I update it...
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    New processor/motherboard to run VMware ESXi 8?

    I did a quick check and see e.g. Supermicro X12STL and Xeon E-2336 available (though I am not from UK). I am starting to look myself for upgrade from my IB server, and wish Supermicro produced some Ryzen boards. I know Asrock Rack has bunch of AM4 like X470D4U2-2T but they are cost a lot. They...
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    Review Request: HP Flex IO 10Gbit module

    page 19/20 https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c05105339.pdf seems to be based on AQC113C https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/ethernet-adaptersandcontrollers/marvell-fastLinq-edge-aqc113-aqc113c-aqc113cs-aqc114cs-aqc115c-aqc116c-product-brief.pdf
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    New processor/motherboard to run VMware ESXi 8?

    Whats the reason youre stuck on 6.7? I have Ivy bridge (1 gen older than Haswell) and ESXi7 upgrade only mentions that it will be unsupported in future, so it still works on 7.0 Are you looking to buy something new or used?
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    CWWK/Topton/... Nxxx quad NIC router

    Specs on Ark say these new N CPUs have only single channel memory controller and support max 16GB of RAM. But Aliexpress sellers offer 32GB RAM bundles. Wondering whether these mini PCs have 1 or 2 memory slots and whats real max capacity.
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    Dell PowerEdge T350 boot from consumer NVME drive unavailable

    Hi, is it possible to boot from consumer NVME drive on Dell Poweredge T350? As vmware doesnt recommend deploying new ESXI system to USB disk, I wanted to install it on NVME Server doesnt have any normal sata port, so I decided to just use NVME drive via M.2/PCIe adapter. As per VMWare...
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    Project TinyMiniMicro system for 100 Gbps networking

    tinyminimicro typically dont have any PCIe slots. Just M.2. But there is for example HP Z2 G9 Mini which has one x8 slot.
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    X9SRL-F POSTs only via BIOS recovery process

    yes I bought new chip with preloaded bios I needed from ebay, and after replacing, motherboard started booting again.
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    esxi 8.x ???

    I dont understand if everything in this file will not not be detected, or just mellanox and FC stuff mentioned in article and rest is just deprecated. But I see there sata controllers from chipsets for socket 2011-3 and older, many older intel network cards etc...
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    esxi 8.x ???

    https://core.vmware.com/resource/whats-new-vsphere-8 I googled this chinese site which contains link to beta build downloadable from Baidu, but sadly I dont have account there https://sysin.org/blog/vmware-vsphere-8/
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    Cheap Intel Pentium N6005 4x 2.5GbE Fanless Firewall and Router Review

    Hi, does it accept 64GB of RAM and does it run ESXi?