Recent content by The Gecko

I shouldn't have to start from the other end. This is an additional complexity that I don't need and shouldn't be there.

In defense of my post's title, STH is great; no ineptitude here. Rather, my focus is on how we are treated by the big industry corporations. I believe that we see something wrong or incomplete, we should say something. However, one voice is never enough. Companies don't respond unless there...

I'm looking to recruit support for my request to post (if it doesn't exist) or make more visible (if it does exist) a web page that lists the releases, their beta/stable status, and release notes with known issues of the VirtIO KVM Windows Guest drivers. If you agree, please go to this post and...

I've got one of these: https://assets.tequipment.net/assets/1/26/SurgeX_SXHS15R_Defender_Series_Diagnostic_Rack_Mount_User_Manual.pdf ...and the serial port uses an RJ 11 connector: https://www.amazon.com/ESP-Interface-Cable-Envision-Protectors/dp/B00KHPB066/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8...

Tips from the field... A single Proxmox host will only backup one VM or container at a time. Therefore if your hosts have an imbalance of VMs, one host will take much longer than the others. ^^^^ That is all true, but..... It really comes down to the sum total of the size of the VMs hard...

It looks to my untrained eye that the power supply is too small. The output is rated for 12V @ 3.0A, or 36W. Power consumption under full load at the socket (AC) was measured too be 45W. Note how there is no 'Efficiency Level ##' rating on the adapter. So if we were to assume a best-case 80%...

Tom's Hardware recently dropped a product release announcement for a mini PC with a PCIe slot on top of the case, externally accessible, for use with any GPU of any size/width. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ryzen-9-7945hx3d-mini-itx-pc-puts-gpu-slot-on-top-of-the-case I see this product...

Is it possible to enable IB on the Mellanox ConnextX-3 Pro CX314A-BCCT? Or can I cross flash it to a CX354A-FCCT?

Has anyone here tried using enterprise U.2 drives like the Intel P4510 as a desktop/gaming drive AND also used modern Gen4 M.2 drives? How do they compare for the purpose of gaming and desktop duty?

Ceph says the health is fine: root@cluster01:~# ceph -s cluster: id: 136076e3-08cb-4bc9-b438-708b9c83ea92 health: HEALTH_OK services: mon: 3 daemons, quorum cluster01,cluster02,cluster03 (age 25h) mgr: cluster01(active, since 25h), standbys: cluster02, cluster03...

I have a 12G SAS SSD with unusually high latency. I'm looking for ideas about what to fix. I've already tried swapping out cables and HBAs. I've also tried updating the firmware on the HBA. The high latency is visible in the Proxmxo Ceph OSD overview screen. Sometimes this value hovers at...

FYI: Motherboard Manual

Take a moment and look over this PDF: https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-NVMe3-216N-S4.pdf It's an NVMe backplane that was designed to connect to 12 OCuLink cables. On page 2-3 (below), there is a description jumpers J26 & J27 to select how many drives are connected to which CPU...

This is a Windows question, but let me set the stage first... When I reboot a Ceph node, Proxmox provides a nice graphical representation of Ceph's rebuild/recovery status. This information lets me know when all data is fully synced and when I can reboot the next Proxmox node. Is there a...

I'm a bit rushed for time, so I cannot post the code I used to create this setup. I'll return to add more details later. I had an opportunity to create a 3-node Windows Server 2022 failover cluster and host Storage Spaces Direct (SD2) upon it. All nodes were interconnected via dual ported...