Recent content by schujj07

Glad that this old thread was able to help.

Ended up being that the drives are formatted for 4Kn and VMware doesn't support NVMe SSD with 4Kn formatting. Once they were reformatted to 512e I was able to access them.

Thank you for the suggestion. I ran the commands in that KB and we don't have LUNs with 2 legacy identifiers. I forgot to put in the original post that the hosts are running ESXi 6.7 U3.

I am having problems with VMware seeing my new WD Gold NVMe SSDs on my HP DL385 Gen 10 hosts. I am getting this for logs for the 4 drives: 2020-10-07T17:58:18.494Z cpu42:2098140)ScsiEvents: 501: Event Subsystem: Device Events, Created! 2020-10-07T17:58:18.494Z cpu42:2098140)VMWARE SCSI Id: Id...

I have dual Pfsense firewalls on version 2.4.4 Release p2 running on SuperMicro SYS-5018D-FN8T hosts. I want test having our LAN traffic go over the 10GbE port. However, every time I activate an interface assignment on the 10GbE port the router decides that all LAN traffic should be routed to...

I have some Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX switches in the datacenter I manage and they are a great card. We use the 25GbE version instead of the 10GbE. If you are able to get some 2nd hand I would go with those/

"Any customer who purchases VMware software licenses, for deployment on a physical server with more than 32-cores per CPU, prior to April 30, 2020 will be eligible for additional free per-CPU licenses to cover the CPUs on that server." Note to self: Be sure to buy 64 Core CPUs before then so you...

VLAN should work just make sure that your firewall won't allow them to communicate across VLANs, I would also have them on a separate subnet just as added security. Otherwise you can always have a physical switch and subnet for them.

No I didn't write that backwards. For official VMware support of Epyc 7002 you need to be running 6.7 U3 or 6.5 U3. VMware Compatibility Guide - cpu While it might work on 6.7 U2, if you were to run into an issue you would not be able to get support from VMware with it running on 6.7 U2.

6.7 U2 do not have support for 7002 series, you need 6.7 U3 for that. What you probably need is a BIOS update for your host. I had that issue in late October installing 6.7 U3 onto my company's new SuperMicro AS-2124BT-HTR. I had to contact SuperMicro and get a release candidate BIOS and once I...

Depends on the vendor you are using. I can tell you from person experience that if you go SuperMicro with the Epyc CPU you can get a 1U 10NVMe with 1TB RAM, Dual Epyc 7502 CPU, 2x 3.2Tb Micron 9300 MAX, 8x 3.84TB Micron 9300 Pro, 2x Mellanox Connect-X4 LX with dual port 25GbE cards for under...

Your best bet will be to find a Value Added Reseller and go from there. If you need write intensive drives for SATA you are left with the 3.84TB Micron 5300 MAX that just launched. For SAS there are only 2 options I can think of HGST/WD & Seagate. Problem with SAS is the drives are extremely...

"Researchers at Vrije University in Amsterdam revealed on Wednesday that Intel's server-grade processors suffer from a vulnerability, which they dubbed NetCAT. The vulnerability enables a side-channel attack that can infer what a CPU is working on and is said to rely on issues with two Intel...

I have 2x 800GB U.2 P3700's as cache drives for a vSAN at my work and they are great drives.

There was a thread dealing with Fusion IO drives that you might be interested in then. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/fusion-io-iodrive-ii-1-2tb-drives-0-09-or-0-08-gb.23423/ People are getting 1.2TB drives for $115 each when buying 2+ drives. They won't work as a boot drive...