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I think by the end of today we will have 5+ switches inbound to add. Now the challenge is to get through the backlog.

Good point @PigLover We have been very lucky with the fanless units. ~2 dozen of them and have yet to see the problems some others have. We started putting that disclaimer/ thread in the reviews since there seem to be a lot of variabilities in manufacturing. I will put this as a note to the...

Good question. The 25GbE one was the first to be validated I believe. This is something that is going to evolve over time.

We have changed a lot behind the scenes. I will probably do my quarterly Letter from the Editor and talk about it a bit more soon. The TL;DR is we have been trying to find a way to increase capacity by doing bigger batches. That will net increase throughput, but it is causing latency.

I am very jealous of all of this. We just recorded a 15x switch round-up video today and I have recorded videos the last two days as well, and am hoping to get 1-2 done tomorrow. I wish I had one / the time to play with one.

These 400Gbps are closer to 10W than 8.3W, but there are higher power modules than SR optics: https://www.servethehome.com/fs-400gbase-sr8-400gbe-qsfp-dd-optical-transceiver-review-marvell-inphi/

I think on the ESXi side you need ESXio. For example, we should be showing BF2 w/ ESXi this week, but I have heard they might actually be special SKUs for ESXio, not standard BlueFields. Pensando I think they are the standard cards, and I am supposed to be trying it out in a few weeks so I...

I cannot believe I missed this. Need to see if I can get some. I like how photo #2 is from STH ;-)

I can tell you that when we did the Supermicro X13 launch, we filmed in the middle of the San Jose factory floor. It was the first time I had been there in years. A huge amount of the new boxes being filled around us while filming were OEM servers other than Supermicro. Perhaps the better...

@scline s-tui @marcoi I need to ask the team if we tested it. It is just Ryzen 7000 series so it should be easier to support than the workaround you need for the P+E cores on the Intel side these days. i210 is supported, and I *think* the BCM is as well. On the performance, E3-2386 I would say...

I think this is going to be the play. I recorded the video today. Should be live mid-month.

I am pretty sure we are going to do a piece on at least one of these.

That is the current plan.

Super, an easy one! The reason is somewhat easy. We had someone on our team see the video like 20 min before the go-live. Their feedback was that the section talking about the core counts memory bandwidth and so forth was like twice as long as it could be. It would also be better if that...

Point taken @MiniKnight

@XeonLab - It all works, but it is a ton of fiber. Part of it is really just remembering that it was <2x the cost of just pulling LC, so it is mostly underutilized. We have been really busy for the past 6+ months so it has been a bit of a struggle to get videos out in general.

Sure. I think we have discussed this in a few articles in passing. Maybe in the glorious complexity piece. Optane was not designed as a storage medium to compete with NAND on pricing. Instead, it was designed to compete with RAM. The small dollar problem was to make faster storage. Some...

We have not done the MSG10+V2 yet. Genoa + Sapphire has us very behind right now.

If it makes you feel better, Bloomberg's stories have been fairly thoroughly debunked by folks like Tim Cook, Andy Jassay, and more. There is still a risk, but Bloomberg's original article has zero cited sources that have said that Bloomberg was correct...

I put this on Twitter a bit ago, but here is some personal news.