Search results

This is fascinating stuff. In the Web/Tech industry, we are by now much more used to scale-out solutions (and our workloads scale well on those), but there are certainly workloads that benefit from the massive with-system bandwidth that you get in a scale-up solution. What does surprise me is...

That would indeed be interesting: PCIe 2.0 x1 is 500 Mbyte/s full duplex, so a 2.5 Gbe switch would be a feasible improvement. 5 Gbe would be pushing it, and 10 Gbe is more than the link can saturate. Also, in my case, Ceph is not very friendly on these small CPUs. Interestingly, in contrast...

Build’s Name: Malina (meaning "Raspberry" in various Slavic languages) Operating System/ Storage Platform: Plain Debian 11 plus LXD and Ceph CPU: 6x ARM Cortex-A72 Motherboard: DeskPi Super6C Chassis: SuperMicro SuperChassis 510T-203B Drives: 6x WD Red SN700 (1000 GB, M.2 2280) RAM: 6x 8GB...

And how about the reverse: Does this motherboard allow one to use a processor with a GPU, and then use both the IPMI and the GPU at the same time (e.g., for Plex pass-through), such as for example on many of the X**-**H-F motherboards?

I like the fact that it has an external COM port. Do these NICs support PTPv2? Is so, then even though 2.5Gbe is overkill, a simple serial GPS with PPS, and dedicated PTPv2 links to your few servers, and you have a cheap solution that will keep your servers within 1-10 μs of each other. A...

I naturally gravitated towards this topic, since one of my X11SSH-F boards seems to have given up the ghost. IIUC, the X13SAZ-F will support ECC RAM, and it has a proper server airflow orientation for the RAM slots. This might be an interesting combination; I'd never thought I'd run a server...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/291500092330?hash=item43dec26baa:g:2rQAAOSwjhhhxF5b GBP 549.95 (~$724.26) with free shipping. Mainly posting this to keep myself from buying these... :p

"We strongly recommend hedging you purchase with a stock package for your energy company" XD

Thanks for your answers; I decided to get my hands on a short MTP cable to just try whether it fits, because indeed it is smaller than I thought. I'll let you know.

I'll be moving house, and I decided to do things "right", networking wise, for once. I willhave an equipment room in which I will put my rack that contains servers, a workstation, switches, UPS, etc. From there, 4 conduits already exist, in which (probable) Cat 5e cable is currently laid, with...

Why would you do this to me; you realize that this means I am going to have to spend money, again, right? :D

A very late reply, but since I have seen some of these on eBay again: Does anyone have experience with running NVMe drives off of these (the third mode in "tri-mode"). Can one, for each on for the 2 (or 4, depending on the card), choose whether to use it for either SAS/SATA, or for NVMe? Does...

Scratch that: It is possible to install Windows 11 with the latest VirtIO 0.1.204 ISO in the second "CD drive": Good: This was just an experiment, and I will delete this VM again. I do have a valid Windows 10 Pro key, so now I will be looking into getting a properly activated on my current...

Although this has not yet made it to be default release channel, if you subscribe to their pve-no-subscription repository, you'll get a software vTPM that you can pass to virtual machines. Also, now when you add an EFI disk to a VM, it's allow you to pre-enroll the default set of vendor...

The 1e-14 UBER does not sit terribly well with me; these disks contain ~1.5e+14 bits, which means 1 bit per drive. This is a problem when using these as single drives. That said, using these with redundancy with bit-rot aware storage systems such as ZFS should be rather safe; the probability of...

Thanks for trying this; I have a "server" motherboard (X11SRL-F) in my workstation, because it's in a rack, as I wanted the proper airflow and IPMI. I have been considering thunderbolt, but then with a long fiber thunderbolt "cable" there have a quiet office away from the noisy rack. I guess...

I did not see any stories on the front page or in the forum, so I will do my citizenship duty here: Proxmox VE 7.0 has been released. From the article: What’s new in Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 This major release brings a large set of new enhancements: Ceph Pacific 16.2: Proxmox Virtual...

Just a simple upgrade, but it made my day anyway. My old workstation "Embruddock" (yes, all my system names are inspired by the Helliconia trilogy) was getting a bit long in the tooth, and so I decided to go for an upgrade. My requirements were: RDIMM support. Good single-thread performance...

FWIW, I got my three drives, and they are the correct type. Looking good: [4114986.182222] scsi 0:0:7:0: Direct-Access SmrtStor TXA2D20800GA6001 HZ00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [4114986.182526] scsi 0:0:7:0: SSP: handle(0x0010), sas_addr(0x5001173100165795), phy(7), device_name(0x5001173100165794)...

...aaaaand it's gone. I hope some of you managed to get some.