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    Ubiquiti UniFi USW-Leaf Overview 48x 25GbE and 6x 100GbE Switch

    What an absolute beast of a switch! Smeagol: I don't need this. Gollum: My Precious! Smeagol:No, I really cannot justify this. Gollum: (opens...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:04 AM in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    EU UK - SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SSH-F-B LGA1151 socket H

    Meh, I just grabbed one for €160 just yesterday. Still not a bad price, but this would have been better.
    Post by: niekbergboer, Jan 29, 2020 in forum: Great Deals
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    Microchip SyncServer S600 Administering Time for SC19

    Interesting! For DIY stuff, I have played with a Garmin 18x and reasonable modern Intel NICs (with hardware time stamping support), and when using...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Dec 5, 2019 in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    cheap Supermicro 836 chassis $135+S&H

    Thanks for the hint! I just managed to snatch a 836 for EUR 145 . I'll throw out the X8 fossil that in in there, and I'll probably have to drop 50...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Nov 25, 2019 in forum: Great Deals
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    Unifi US-24-250W vs USW-24-POE - Worth the wait?

    I am currently in the market for a 16 to 24 port POE switch, and since I have Unifi in the home, I'll use that. I'm in Europe, and I can get the...
    Thread by: niekbergboer, Nov 17, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Networking
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    Intel Xeon E-2288G Review 8 Cores and 5GHz in the Entry Segment

    I've been looking into upgrading the oldest server in my 3-member cluster for a while now (a Haswell E3). I'd like to use a Xeon E-2200 series on...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Nov 1, 2019 in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    NVIDIA Quadro P620 Low Profile, Low Power Graphics Card Review

    This being a Quadro, does that mean that it can be used to accelerate virtual desktops?
    Post by: niekbergboer, Sep 12, 2019 in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    Proxmox VE 6.0 Released New ZFS and Ceph Improvements

    They are; I particularly like the dynamic pg-num management. The upgrade instructions on the Proxmox site regarding Ceph are good, too. There is...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Jul 16, 2019 in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    One big home server or several small ones?

    I have three, all fairly low power, that form a Proxmox VE HA cluster. I love being able to migrate VMs around (live), and being able to reboot...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Mar 6, 2019 in forum: General Chat
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    Disable proxmox host ipv6 dhcp on WAN port

    I don't know about DHCPv6, but I had such problems with SLAAC; editing /etc/sysctl.conf and enabling IPv6 forwarding (the comment there says...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 18, 2019 in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    Proxmox networking guidance

    I run a virtualized pfSense using VirtIO, and indeed, you have to disable offloading or you'll see a lot of packet loss.
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 11, 2019 in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    Supermicro X11SC*-F iGPU support

    That sounds good: what motherboard do you use?
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 5, 2019 in forum: Processors and Motherboards
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    Supermicro X11SC*-F iGPU support

    I am purely looking for transcoding; I don't need a physical output.
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 5, 2019 in forum: Processors and Motherboards
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    Supermicro X11SC*-F iGPU support

    I am in the market for upgrading one of my servers, and given the apparent performance increase from the Xeon E3 v6 to Xeon E, I am looking into...
    Post by: niekbergboer, Feb 4, 2019 in forum: Processors and Motherboards