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    OCP 3.0: Dell QL41132HQCU (2*10Gb SFP) into a Lenovo SR635?

    Pretty easily as it turns out, you can use the BMC connection remote console client to mount a "CD" Image and install linux. The BMC also appears as a USB ethernet adapter in linux, so you can use that too to kickstart the box... I was well impressed with the BIOS/BMC on that machine, compared...
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    OCP 3.0: Dell QL41132HQCU (2*10Gb SFP) into a Lenovo SR635?

    Pretty limited set of options, compared to fancier cards. Note the lack of autoneg, however the card can't even downscale to 2.5 or 1Gbs so I supposed it is unnecessary? 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. FastLinQ QL41000 Series 10/25/40/50GbE Controller (rev 02) 01:00.1 Ethernet...
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    OCP 3.0: Dell QL41132HQCU (2*10Gb SFP) into a Lenovo SR635?

    Just to reply to myself, as I googled around with no clear answer -- I ended up ordering one, and it works fine in my Lenovo SR635! Marked "proto" which is odd, but at around $80 (paid £66 inc vat) for 2x10Gb it is by far the cheapest I found. Oh, remember to *enable* OCP in the BIOS -- it was...
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    Current thoughts on tape backup software for Linux?

    tar here as well, I don't bother splitting files, I don't have files bigger than 1.5TB (my drives are LTO5) so it works fine...